• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 XC500

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Well, I finally finished the Bike!!:cheers: Yeah Team!!!:banana: I got the electrical finished and put some heat reflective tap under the left side panel. Not so sure that is going to stop the Melty but we will see. I took a video of the start and idle, but got a massive cramp in my left leg getting off the side stand, so the video is short, Plus the Smoky the Shop!!. The Hi and Lo beams work and so does the rear running and brake light so I think we are ready for Spring!!:busted: Thanks for all your help and encouragement to keep going. Chris
View: https://youtu.be/AJbtDZwEico
 
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Great result Chris! It sounds crisp, is it getting easier to start now that you've had a chance to set mixture, idle speed etc?
 
ajcmbrown said:
Great result Chris! It sounds crisp, is it getting easier to start now that you've had a chance to set mixture, idle speed etc?
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It is easier to start now. That was only 18 kicks and it started right up!! Hahahah, I had no idea the idle screw was in so far and that probably was why so many kicks as I primed the cylinder thru the plug hole. Once I put the choke on, only a few kicks later it fired. I will really only ride this on groomed trails other wise I'll probably get into big trouble. It is A LOT OF BIKE, and I'm really only an amateur rider. But I LOVE Building them. After seeing a few on here I decided to get one. Probably the worst idea I've had in a while, like your 400 WRX Tony. A hell of a lot of work!! Chris
 
I'm thinking of getting a new one from Husqvarna-parts .com. May be go down to a 38 seeing he only has the rubbers for those. I thought i replaced that rubber, alas probably the only old part on the bike!!:busted:
 
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