• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 430 Auto resto!

I rode a twin shock auto years ago and found it facinating. the one thing i took away is how much time in any corner on a normal bike you spend using "engine braking" to set up for a gassing up session. On the auto with no engine braking you spent an eternity inching to the point you could open it up... thus it really helped you focus on brake -turn -power with as little time in between each action.
great bikes, wish id picked up a new one. back in late 90's a container load showed up in aus of brand new ones and at ~4k ech each, they were cheap then!
 
Got the rest of my graphics today, Hwy (Art) did an Awesome job dulplicating a Nos set of number plate decals with a Super Fast turn around. Really gives it alot more Bling that's for sure.Picture 391.jpgPicture 387.jpgPicture 388.jpg
 
Thanks to C.H. member colemanapp for a great Night ride on friday evening. A WHITE BIKE ONLY, and first ride on the auto. It's obvious I still need to do a little more carb work. It ran great off the bottom but bogged in the higher r's. The tranny shifted perfectly with plenty of low end. I found the bike to feel much like my other huskys. I also found myself reaching for the clutch lever and shifter, that were not there.
I did find that not having to constantly reach for the clutch made it alot easier on the hands and forearms.
I could also concentrate alot more on the trail and choosing a line, not having to think about clutching or shifting. "Gas N Go" .

From left to right: 87 430wr - Bob's 88 125wrk - 86 430ae
I think they look better with a liitle dirt on em.Picture 426.jpgPicture 434.jpgPicture 431.jpgPicture 429.jpgPicture 433.jpg
 
all husky come jetted rich on top ...its called insurance ...just go down one main at a time....of course how you ride , petrol pre mix, temperature,altitude etc etc all contribute....everyone justs once to be slightly on the rich side for maximum piston life i guess.
 
Just did some night riding on my ktm 300. the lights no good! oh for an SEM and a 150 watt light!
 
husky jim said:
Worked on the bike again this weekend, finally starting to look like something.
Ordered the rest of the parts yesterday from Phillip at Husqvarna-parts.com.
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Have another 430ae project on the way. I purchaced from the original owner.
Plan on keeping this one stock.
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Hi Husky Jim,

how did you go fitting the later model tank and plastics? Im currently sourcing parts for my 86 rebuild and would like to go this way with the tank. asny tips would be great.

cheers

Jason
 
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