• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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 WR 400 Disappointment

racemx904 said:
Its funny how just the smallest details in a race that brutal can make the difference in winning, finishing or being stuck in BFE.....
I never needed the bigger radiator in D37 desert racing but Baja why chance it....
I bent probably 20 shifters before I did this trick.... They ran a few different light combos... two 8" 55w stacked, 2 side by side, 1 8" and two 4" on top....
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Here's a great clip of a Husky rider in the 85 Baja 1000. He's flying along at dusk...
He starts at the 4:00 minute mark here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkuIf2j0wdk
 
racemx904 said:
Yes.... The d37 way was light valving and heavy spring... My brother uses an 8.7 I preferred the biggest I could find lol
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Interesting. I didn't know that. Because of all the high speed riding through the desert, right? Keep the bike firm and upright at speed, no wallowing.
 
Correct.....

And I hated that time of night.... when you need a light but its really not doing anything..... I love the pitch black.... I was told I was faster in the dark than in the day.... I've had some great lights over the years....
 
everfree said:
Thanks for the pictures, racemx904.
I like that skid plate. The extra exhaust support makes sense, I've had to replace rubber bushing parts on all my 430s.
And that washer in the shifter is trick. All my shifters are bent.
The bigger rad and stator makes sense too. The Baja 1000 isn't a 2 hour race in daylight !

Is that Ohlins spring really a 9.1 N/m ? Almost 2x as stiff as my 87 430 spring.
Maybe the 86 linkage being different than the 87 linkage needs a stiffer spring?
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part of the reason the 85-86 linkage was changed was to have the ability to run a softer spring in the 87-88 bikes. a spring that was set correctly for you in the later bike would likely be too soft in the earlier bike.
 
In the vid at 4:00 minute mark, the rider is Dan Smith on a Husky 250XC, the 2nd rider is Larry Roeseler's team mate, Pfieffer (I think the announcer said) on a Husky 510.
You can read Smith's name on the back of his jacket.
 
backing up with dls:...typically I find a way besides backing off the truck and having it land on me, haha.

Pretty much any hill I get hung up on means my dls bike will fall back down on me, good thing it isn't as heavy as my other Brit bikes were...thud. Going across the hill and getting stopped, then rolling backwards and having to leap off to the low side, priceless moments, fun tho.
Love the 400 disc, especially backwards, lol!
 
Anybody ever use the Runtronic ignition systems from Weston Model Center, UK?

Not an alternator, but the ignition sounds like less than $200 all up, coil included.
 
everfree said:
You might be right. I kinda remember another vid of the same race with Ashcraft racing a 250. But maybe it was the 86 Baja 1000.
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If it was a SCORE Baja race from that era you can tell the bike size/class from the bike's race number: 300's=125cc, 400's=250cc, 600's=500cc, 700's= riders over 30 & 800's= riders over 38. This numbering system was used during the 1980's up to the mid 1990's.
 
when rolling back wards downhill I recommend using the rear brake. even if the front brake works backwards, it is next to useless c/w the rear. problem with getting old is to remember which side of the bike the back brake lever is on...:thumbsup:
 
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