• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

1983 430 racer build

I like the way you hung the frames for paint. But I can't tell what you're showing there... frame looks like a gray primer and the swingarm white? Colors don't always come through well on a computer.

And... I DID NOT KNOW that there was a market for cut-off frame loops! Who knew?
 
Both colors would be fine under silver or white.

Going with duplicolor aluminium high heat engine paint and clear to dull it down to a silver.
Got a internal flywheel motoplat coming for the bike.

Good number for this bike might be 57 as in Heinz, kinda like all the 500s with the #27
 
Steve,
Look'n good...been working on my own 430 project too, it's a 430 motor in a 84 250XC frame. Sort of project i was thinking about doing for awhile, the 430 Husky never built. I already had this motor, but it was in a 83 XC frame..but the top end was getting tired. Took it to a practice track end of last season & the suspension worked awesome, so the wheels started turning.

I swapped the stock XC suspension on to a 84 250XC frame, not sure what the bottom end is (XC, CR?) as the cases where repaired & the reenforcing bead goes across where the serial number is.. It's got a CR pipe & top end for certain ..not sure if i'm going to race it (as i already have a 82 430CR) or sell it that's why i haven't completely finished it..

Husky John
 

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I went with some different colors on the 400, black fork sliders and swingarm, gold shox with black springs and a yellow seat. while the factory finish is sensational when fully restored, I wanted a rider that I wouldn't cry about as the frame rails wear, forks get gouged, swing arm scratched etc so I decided a mixn match was the go. I can do a full on period correct resto when I retire from riding (next week the way I feel now!)
 
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