• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 XC 250 Lowering Ride Height

Guys, thanks for all the info. After following the procedure Picklito outlined, and removing the fork caps to make sure the forks would compress beforehand, everything now works fine. Apparently they were bound and not parallel as Surprize suggested. I also replaced the oil that I removed earlier. Should be back to 6" from top with forks compressed, no springs. I can adjust the oil level from here after doing some riding. Anyone use air in these old forks? Can't wait to ride this old Husky.
 
the air valves are to release build up of air pressure which makes them harsh again. if you feel they are starting to beat you up on the little bumps, let the air out...
 
Thanks guys. Just about ready to button this one up and start riding. Had to put it aside for a few weeks. I have been spending my spare time working on a cousin's 1976 Honda MT125 Elsinore. It is a nice survivor bike that just needed a light restoration.
 
an empty 125....not the most powerful scoot known to man... a friend bought one new on the basis that being just like a cr 125 it should be a good thing...he was very disappointed.:(
still a good looking bike, hard to find in as original condition. can we get a piccy??
 
Some "Before" pics. We loaded it up on the truck before I could take "after" pics. I did get one pic of the newly painted and dent-free tank. Paint work courtesy of Larry Spence in Sardis,WV.
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Gang:

I need some help. My 83 Husky xc250 fell-over in the garage today and the shifter went through the clutch case cover. Does anyone have a clutch cover they would be willing to part with? Must be in solid condition. Thanks.
 
just clean it with contact cleaner and get some plastic metal or devcon (is best) and patch her up.
 
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