• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

DeathFromAbove said:
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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Bitchin bike, if I was younger I'd acquire one to ride. Great job on the restoration.

Plus the Smoky the Shop
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If the smoke doesn't clear up you may want to check the fuel oil ratio and/or investigate the crank seal. If you're not going to ride it much then it may not matter so much. I rebuilt a 73 450 recently and after a 30 min ride noticed it smoked at low rpm and was puking spooge out the exhaust manifold. Turned out the crank seal was leaking gearbox oil so I replaced it with a 5mm tall seal instead of an 7 so I could hit a different spot on the stub shaft. Smoking problem is gone.

To bad the 500 doesn't have dual plugs so a de-compression valve could be installed. Put one on my 450, its like starting a 250.
 
Thanks guys, she is a looker!!:applause: The bike has about 30 min since total rebuild, so I'm running 20 to 1 ratio. A few more heat cycles and I'l start running 32/1. I still haven't pegged the lower rpm range but am getting closer. That's some good info on the seal Crash. I'll have to keep that in mind with some of the beat up stubs I have!:eek: Thanks Again! Chris
 
I just posted this bike for sale in the classifieds I figured I'd give you guys a shot at it before throw it on eBay if you like it and you want to talk my numbers 201 370 5471 Chris
 
In case you're wondering it starts on the first or second kick now. I had clean the carburetor 5 more times reduce the idle Jet and repair the ignition works great now! I'll post a new video tomorrow. Thanks Chris
 
Yeah it's not so much that it's a beast my knees can't handle it anymore and I'm afraid of falling over all the time cuz it's so tall somebody's going to get a sweet bike that's why I like the early 70s so much smaller shorter the ground
 
It's Posted On Ebay now.:cry: Thanks for all the help building this bike, you guys helped me stick with it and finish this awesome Bike! And It's not rotting up in NH!! Thanks Again.:love: Chris
 
Thanks Chris...beautiful restoration and very much looking forward to the 500’s arrival. Just joined this fantastic site that brings us Husky enthusiasts together on the greatest motorcycle company ever founded! IMHO!
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Looks like Jeff sold the 500, I f I had know I would not have sold it to him, But he paid me what I asked. Then used all my Pics, Information and you tube videos without my permission! Nice guy? Whatever!! I got 2 more 450s 72and 74 and a 73 250cr in the wings, My surgery was a success and I am back to work light duty, and physical therapy for the next 8 weeks or so. Hope to be riding by spring. I am looking for a small tank for the 250cr. If you have one to sell let me know. Have you seen all the 80s huskys for sale? they are coming out of the woodwork. I will start another thread for these bikes in the restoration forum.
 
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