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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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Bslade01

Husqvarna
I picked this very nice 1983 Husqvarna 250 CR up in May and am almost done restoring it. The bike looked good when I first picked it up, but as soon as I started tearing it down I found the filter was dust, the forks had no oil in them, the clutch had a home made case lever on it, the front bearings had a hitch in their giddy up, all the cables were terrible and the carb needed help in the way of a rebuild. Most of the detail parts were added and a mixture of amsoil and gasoline 50:1 and she fired up on the 2nd kick. The piston is scored but the bike runs great - looking at changing the piston after tear down. Also it leaks a little trans fluid on the clutch side put bel-ray 80W in it about 1600cc. and put bel-ray 10W 450cc in the front forks. I really could not find much on capacities on either.

I just had the tank repainted and will put new stickers on it - I have never owned a Husky in the past but a lot of other brands including all the Japanese brands and a Bultaco Pursang. I am so excited to get this 33 year old barn find running and can't wait until I can take it to the desert and put it through its' paces. This bike is going to be a rider not a looker. Now I know what I was missing out on.
 

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In their day. they were only ridden by Husqvarna diehards and usually finished behind several Japanese bikes in the 250 class in motocross. They are very popular in vintage racing because they were the last holdouts about transitioning to liquid cooling, single shock rear suspension, and disc brakes making them competitive against the Japanese bikes that last met those qualifications.
 
nice find and the bike looks great!
great group here and we can help with any questions or issues.
personally, i have never cared for the belray gearsaver..i do think their air filter oil is the best tho..
 
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