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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1986 400 Xc Rebuild

It runs but i have no chain yet.

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So i made up a nice little stand for the bike, got no kick stand.
Also made a fork saver thing for when i load it in the truck.
Rubber pad on the fender end.

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Tested outside even lol

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I got a kickstand mount from a 1987 430WR I use on my 86 400WR from eBay about 2 years ago. I feel any bike except a motocrosser should have one but that is my opinion. Also congratulations, needing only a drive chain is still a great place to be in a restoration.
 
Nearly ready to ride 86.

You are going to love that motor especially on any real ugly hills.
If you find the front brakes lacking you can fit the 87 left slider and twin spot caliper.
The improvement is well worth the trouble.
 
Thanks guys.

The front tire looks way small to me, think I'll change that before i ride it.
I had the urge to make a skid plate today, its nice to have a friend to tig it up for me.
Got it hanging of the front lower mounting bolts and at the rear it kicks up for a clamp off the center tube, pics when i get it back and on the bike.



Steve.
 
Still kicking around an idea for an add on pipe shield. Thats a nice one though, whats that style bolt too on the gold ones?
 
The slots are for 3 frame brackets that should have come with the skid plate.
I think they can be ordered through MSR. They look like single hole 1/2" electric conduit clamps, only 3 times as heavy.
The rear two tabs bolt to the two lowerer frame brackets, with one super long bolt.

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Seen one that bolts on to a MSR skid plate. I'll try and find a pic.

I found this pipe protector on ebay the other day.


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Any one know what oil is safe to use in the tranny?
10w30, straight 30????
20w seems hard to find these days.
 
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