• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Did a fender swap and got a nice scenic pic of the ole beast.


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Where did the water pump guard come from? cant find one in UK, need one for my 88 430XC and my 87 250WR needs one as well ( I have two clutch cases for the 250 one has had the kickstart/idler mishap & the other has had an off that took out the water pump cover/housing threaded boss but is useable) seen one in US on evilbay but looked very home made, are they available in the US or will I have to make my own?
 
So the 400 was feeling left out with all the new stuff for the 250.

So it got some new rads, the old ones were stock and kinda done.
New seat cover and rear fender, she had a few good spills over the summer.

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nice rads, a little work to fit the right side.

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Very nice job ! Do you have the reference for the radiators, i need to replace them too. Rgds.
 
Well after a year of watching ebay a really nice tank came around for 35 bucks.
I spent a little time on the badges and more or less washed the tank and it looks that good.

Very happy with the deal and got a few other things dirt cheap from the same seller for spare stuff.

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A small amount of yellow, i like how it had no decals and the white is even fade.

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Your bike really brings back memories, I had my 86 WR400 for ten years still wish I had not sold it. It had so much grunt I was always first to the first corner whenever I raced it.

I used lots of different oil and you can tell if you are on the right track when you drop the oil and you have very little contamination from the aluminum friction discs in the clutch. With the oil for your bike I found that that 10w-40 diesel oil was the best and cheapest I used to change it after every ride.

The clutch in my bike always felt week I replaced everything including the clutch springs. The fix ended up being very simple I was told by Husky Imports Australia to add an extra friction disc to the clutch, it fixed the week feeling clutch. Extra friction disc goes in first.

In ten years I never changed the con rod, only replaced the piston once and only because I did not warm the bike up properly, slight seizure.

I rode that bike heaps and heaps, I even rode it to work every day for twelve months, who says Husky's aren't reliable.

Coming back from a race meet once in the mid nineties, I rode there and back a half hour ride both ways as well as racing it, four races. Three races in my class and the final a butcher's picnic (every size bike in the same race). Boy that was fun!

( This is a true story ) On the way back I saw one of the guys who raced broken down. He wanted to leave his bike on the side of the road in some bushes and I would dink him on the back. I said no way someone might steal it, I will tow you with my bike, he said you can't do that but I did! He was so happy not to have left his bike on the side of the road. This was in country South Australia I found some binder twine on the side of the road to make a tow rope.

I kept the tow rope for years and ended up towing another three bikes at different times.

Sorry for the long rant but I really loved that bike.

Cheers and Merry Christmas,
DaveM.
 
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