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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1987 250WR

oldbikedude said:
Is the right radiator a stock one.....the lower outlet pipes are usually a rounded 90 degree elbow & yours looks to be squared off.
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Good eye for detail! I think the '84 and '85 had the squared off elbows and '86 and newer changed to rounded. This is the replacement radiator I got from ebay. The radiator cap changed over the years too, mine is an older one and not correct for '87.

oldbikedude said:
Also, is that radiator shroud one that you cleaned up?
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Yes, same shroud. It came out really well. Not good enough for a museum piece, but perfect for a rider which is what this bike will be used for.

oldbikedude said:
I've never seen a piece of rubber under the pipe mount strap on the back bone of the frame. that might give it better grip so it won't rotate from vibration.
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Previous owner mod I believe. I liked it, so kept it.
 
yeah the older rads have the welded fitting and the newer have the formed ones..i have both in my pile
 
Close up of the engine. The head and cylinder were sprayed with 2 coats of Plastikote 230. The clutch cover and engine case cleaned up well and are original.
 

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All done! ... well except for odo/speedo. Any recommendations? I've been thinking about a trail tech, but not sure which model is easiest to adapt to an old Husky.

Ended up using DC plastics rear fender and splash guard as I couldn't find any good used or NOS original. The front fender is a new NOST Acerbis - apparently these are still being made and can be purchased from Chaparral for $15 - same as the original except no vents.
 

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Looks great. Thanks for sharing the build with us. So was it worth it? How do you like it? Sounds like you've been into husky's for a while with all the spare parts you had on hand.
 
looks great, time to get it drrrrrty.
i can also recommend an ignition cover and pegs from andy. nice functional upgrades for a rider...
 
Mogly406 said:
All done! ... well except for odo/speedo. Any recommendations? I've been thinking about a trail tech, but not sure which model is easiest to adapt to an old Husky.

Ended up using DC plastics rear fender and splash guard as I couldn't find any good used or NOS original. The front fender is a new NOST Acerbis - apparently these are still being made and can be purchased from Chaparral for $15 - same as the original except no vents.
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how did the dc stuff work out? acceptable?
 
justintendo said:
how did the dc stuff work out? acceptable?
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It looks good - a lot better than I was expecting actually. Only minor trimming required on both pieces. The biggest thing was the rear fender does not have the pocket for the taillight. I made a stainless backing plate and used the guts of a small trailer side marker light that I had and just mounted the taillight lens to that.
 
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