• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 cr 250

bower100

bower100

Husqvarna
AA Class
Well it's been a crazy 2 weeks, ...... buying three dirtbikes,(that shattered the old record for me). First, a 1985 Yamaha TY350 trials bike, then a 2001 Beta 270 Rev 3 trials, and last... this Husky 250 cr.
The husky will be a rider, as all are, but I do want to go thru it to "nice" it up. Hope I don't get blasted here, but it's my first vintage Husky and I don't care if it's suposed to be white.... Husky's to me have always been ... well you know, silver frame, red tank. So it shall be.
I'll post pictures later but dummy me, I tore it down before taking the "before" pictures.
Couple things to start;
1. A prior owner put a "boost bottle" on the intake manifold. Drilled and epoxied-in two 3/8" tubing-size brass barbed nipples and tubed them to what looked like a homemade aluminum can about 3" diameter x 3" long.
Since I accidentally yanked 1 of the nipples out of the manifold, either need to fix it or do away with the entire deal by plugging them off.
Question; was a boost bottle a popular/effective mod to the '83 250CR motor? I see no mention of them scanning forum.... AND that Bigalow "factory" ride 250 doesn't look like it had one.
Any thoughts?
( I think the boost bottle looks terrible... poor fabrication IMO and seems out of place on the bike).

2. I'm bummed out the bike came with, ( i believe), a Husky products large plastic tank and I've got to source a decent, or reconditionable alum. cr tank. Any ideas ?
Thanks, dave
 
1.I watched that tank sell... it was such a nice white on, it seemed ashame to buy it and repaint it red. So I "let it go".
I'm still activly looking for a "rider" tank, small.... aluminum .... stock. (will post in classified).

2. I'm going to plug the holes in my intake manifold where P/O had installed a boost bottle...I don't want it.

3.I will need to fabricate a new cage to hold the foam air filter, (bike came without one). Anybody actually have dementions...or a little sketch of what a stock one looks like ?


Thanks, dave
 
grab a new manifold from sudco, the mikuni suppliers, cheap as and just a click away. the old ones split underneath and are hard to spot
 
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