• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Was I the only one that heard the mountain goat off in the distance at 10:30 ? lol
What an awesome place to ride ! consider your self lucky that your gov. allows and even wants you to enjoy what our creator ( The Great Architect of the Universe) made for us...
 
Well update time.
400 has been back in the bike all this season, i did miss the monster torque and grunt over the 250.
I found a 430 cylinder and piston on Ebay for 50 bucks with minimal blow by to swap on.
Going with the 400 head for a compression bump for my thin air up here.

Never had the cylinder off in the 5 years i have owned it, why because it ran fine.
Found the piston to be a first over at 82.92 .
The ring has very low tension and some good blow by but no black death lines.
Its never had cranks seal done or anything as far as i can tell.
Talk about being built to last a long time, try that with new junk LMAO

Sorry no pics my camera died from being on the bike all the time and cell phones suck



Steve
 
these bikes are built well! at the higher levels of competition i know they are outdated but for fast playriding like we do they are very awesome! comfortable to boot. i enjoy your threads, your builds and attitude towards riding them are similar to my own.
 
youre a ford guy too, so that never hurts! i have a few and just picked up a cream puff, never been in the salt f150. good old inline 6 4.9l and a 5 speed.Photo684.jpgPhoto686.jpg
 
I'm old and a touch over weight on a old bike, but can out ride guys that are 20 years younger on their new bikes.
My bike never beats me up like a new stiff bike with a hard ass seat and way too touchy brakes.
On my own ride alone i go 30 miles easy in 2 hours non stop, never happens with modern bike riders.
They want to stop and rest all the time and suck on the hose, i chew gum and sweat. no need to stop lol
 
nice, many think the only way to get power from a fox body is a 5.0..i bet the 2.3 has some nice turbo sounds!

86 400 XC said:
I'm old and a touch over weight on a old bike, but can out ride guys that are 20 years younger on their new bikes.
My bike never beats me up like a new stiff bike with a hard ass seat and way too touchy brakes.
On my own ride alone i go 30 miles easy in 2 hours non stop, never happens with modern bike riders.
They want to stop and rest all the time and suck on the hose, i chew gum and sweat. no need to stop lol
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sometimes the old hoosks do get a lil credit...my one riding friend commented that "i was really into them" to buy an ohlins shock and even go so far to install a ss braid brake line. ;)
i actually installed a spare 80s line and master on my 95, even tho it had brembo components. the master is a grabbier new style with a plastic line. the brake is much better now!
 
racemx is that a WR subframe on there? Looks not bad, hate the black fender thats all ;)


Bike is running and feels like a big bore now on the kicker.
No kicking it from any position, need to roll it past top dead center now.
Has a good sound to it and it feels the same when you rev it out, more vibration would suck.
Going to play with jets and see what it likes, i imagine it will need more fuel now.
 
Had it out for a rip down the street, can you say adrenalin rush :banana:

Pulls so hard, way faster than the 400 street bike from a stand still. there is Big gearing difference too 55 on the 430 and 48 on the 87.

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5 year old powder coat ^^ :cheers:


my 87 street bike with a 400 XC motor

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The 430s :notworthy:


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My old cylinder on a 82 250 cr bottom, mill it down a touch and make a water pump drive. Rolls over with out the piston hitting the crank.... lol


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