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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1984 WR400

Let us know how the Electrex performs? The Maico looks nice, made fore a purpose like the Husky's
 
dartyppyt said:
Awesome! I like that! Did you restore? If you did! You did A + job!
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Thanks!! Yes Ive done the work but it is actually very original. Frame has never been painted just tidied it up a little. Beautiful bikes and great to ride but buggers to start from cold!!
 
husqyman said:
Let us know how the Electrex performs? The Maico looks nice, made fore a purpose like the Husky's
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Yes I agree the Maico's do look right :cool: An older friend had one when I was younger so I always lusted after one....Eventually I found this one. Been in the back of a garage for about 10 years when I bought it and that was 15 years ago now!!!

Im running the Electrex on a 250 already. Runs and starts great. Starting the 250 had been hit and miss before. Now I dont stress so much.

Easy to fit too.

Thats why even though this bike was starting fine on the motoplat I swapped an Electrex in.
 
Back in 73 when I was 13 my older cousin raced a coffin tanked 420 even let me have a go, that is when I was hooked. always remember it stalled when you shut off, the same as the 490 (like yours) a mate had when I had my YZ seven years later. Great memories.
My 430 (88 XC) starts a lot better since I did the decomp mod but the motoplat spark is still very a poor light blue white at kicking speed (plug resting on the head while kicking)
 
Well finally got my hands on 2 pairs of mx spec front forks. Not only were the WR shorter but the Crome was shot too. So shall I re do the fork legs white or leave them unpaintec?


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Also got an mx length swingarm that I plan to try some time.

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Fork bottoms white and husqvarna lettering blue.

Maybe get one of those Tm design chain guides like I did and the yellow dc plastics tensioner wheel.

Give it some yellow with blue chain?
 
since they didn't make a 400 CR, do what you want. make it a 1 off " WORKS PROTOTYPE". I say put a set of those WP 4054's on it. but you might have a snag hooking up the DLS front brakes.
 
wrx said:
since they didn't make a 400 CR, do what you want. make it a 1 off " WORKS PROTOTYPE". I say put a set of those WP 4054's on it. but you might have a snag hooking up the DLS front brakes.
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Lol a while back I could of got some 4054 that were for drum brakes . Perfect for a a Brad Lackey replica Suzuki!!

But over here if I turned up at a meeting with them on this bike I would be hung !!!
 
dartyppyt said:
Fork bottoms white and husqvarna lettering blue.

Maybe get one of those Tm design chain guides like I did and the yellow dc plastics tensioner wheel.

Give it some yellow with blue chain?
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Funny we turned up a yellow tensioner wheel for one of my 250s. I will look for a yellow DC one though probably less effort! I love the white bikes but sometimes they need a more yellow and blue like you have done on your bike :cool:

I like the idea of the blue fork lettering too but am worried my skills are not up to it :cry:
 
Damaged pipe

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Resurrected pipe blown out and welded back up. One day a nice aftermarket pipe would be nice but for now this is it.

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New carb

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Trial fitting the pipe/carb etc

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Stripped forks

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New controls for the beast

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Also made a schoolboy error as I had not fitted the headstock bearings or shells. So yesterday I picking the bike up off the stand and turning it upside down to fit the bottom shell!! That was fun!! :)
 
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