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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 500xc
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Husqvarna
Svenskbike
Husqvarna
AA Class
Michel Dufayard
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Always the top restauration !
Michel Dufayard
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Just one mistake, the red-orange rear light !!! LOL 
Aren't hella rear light made in Germany ???
Aren't hella rear light made in Germany ???
Svenskbike
Husqvarna
AA Class
Michel Dufayard;135930 said:Just one mistake, the red-orange rear light !!! LOL
Aren't hella rear light made in Germany ???
Michel,
would like to order 10 Hella rear lights from you,in Germany these
are not available!!
Svenskbike
Husqvarna
AA Class
Picklito;136031 said:
Here i bought the rear light http://cgi.ebay.de/Rucklicht-Metall...teile_Zubehör_Landtechnik&hash=item53e3b90628.
It's also a HELLA rear light, almost the same like the original.
Front fender is NOS,one of the last from a local dealer here!
White Husky
Husqvarna
AA Class
The correct Hellas are very difficult to find. I thought that Philip at husqvarna-parts.com had the red lenses so you may yet get the correct lens to fit that unit of yours.
An alternative is to use the CEV rear light. These were widely fitted to European enduro bikes of the era.
Here is one available from an SWM website in the UK for about GBP40:
They also do this type if you prefer the light to come out more horizontally:
These lights are original and not copies. They are the correct size, ie 82mm diameter. After a long long search, I went with the CEV light on my XC500 enduro. It looks good, but it's not quite as flush fitting as the original. See attached photo.
I like your bike by the way Sven. A lot! Well done. Mine is in getting the engine tuned up at present.
Kind regards
Lucien
An alternative is to use the CEV rear light. These were widely fitted to European enduro bikes of the era.
Here is one available from an SWM website in the UK for about GBP40:
They also do this type if you prefer the light to come out more horizontally:
These lights are original and not copies. They are the correct size, ie 82mm diameter. After a long long search, I went with the CEV light on my XC500 enduro. It looks good, but it's not quite as flush fitting as the original. See attached photo.
I like your bike by the way Sven. A lot! Well done. Mine is in getting the engine tuned up at present.
Kind regards
Lucien
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White Husky
Husqvarna
AA Class
Svenskbike;136105 said:
Wow that was a good find. Do let us know if he has any more as I'm sure there will be a queue! With me in it!
Kind regards
Lucien
Svenskbike
Husqvarna
AA Class
Thanks for the rear light info Lucien,it's an good alternative!White Husky;136111 said:The correct Hellas are very difficult to find. I thought that Philip at husqvarna-parts.com had the red lenses so you may yet get the correct lens to fit that unit of yours.
An alternative is to use the CEV rear light. These were widely fitted to European enduro bikes of the era.
Here is one available from an SWM website in the UK for about GBP40:
They also do this type if you prefer the light to come out more horizontally:
These lights are original and not copies. They are the correct size, ie 82mm diameter. After a long long search, I went with the CEV light on my XC500 enduro. It looks good, but it's not quite as flush fitting as the original. See attached photo.
I like your bike by the way Sven. A lot! Well done. Mine is in getting the engine tuned up at present.
Kind regards
Lucien
But i've a other good idea,i'll dip the red/yellow rear light lens in red special bulb color (heat resist)!Will post up the result tomorrow.
Your 500XC looks also very well,the new Öhlins are awesome,hope we can see more pics at soon.
Regards
Kay
Svenskbike
Husqvarna
AA Class
SORRY,it was one of the last and i got the fender since 4 years! No chance to buy it more!White Husky;136113 said:
Front fender was an aftermarket product from UFO PLAST Italie,not original Husky.
Regards
Kay