• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR250

husqyman

husqyman

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi not been on here for quite a while, since I was last I have managed to retire nice and early thanks pension arrangements coming in nicely (more by luck by getting the Job & pension in 1988 before the gov'mt privatised the Nuclear industry & then pensions got protected by an act of parliament)
Sold the XC430 last year (the back wouldn't let me kick it any more) got some more bikes, A 1971 Norton Commando Fastback, and a 1959 James Captain & Francis Barnett Falcon 81 of the same vintage.View attachment 91771View attachment 91771James 001.JPG71fasback 007.JPG
Anyway long story short. I also have a 1987 WR250 and in need of new fork tubes (40mm) anyone in the UK know of any anywhere? or what manufacturer are the same ie Cagiva etc. Or will have to go down the re Chroming route. Thanks in advance.
Kev W.
 
If there is no pitting in the travel portion of the tubes you can run them . Pitting between the triples is merely cosmetic
 
Thanks jimspac problem is chrome has worn through & one legs weeps. Looks like re chroming & grind. The main UK company Phillpotts have quoted £138 if forks stripped inc collection & delivery.
Kev.
 
In the past I have gotten excellent tubes by buying fork sets on eBay. I am sure the pickings are slim now for that. So many lie when you ask a question.
 
ive had good results with minor pitting in the seal area by sanding with 1500# paper. its a short term reduce the oil leaking fix to ride and test a bike and has been effective with bikes that have sat and pitted and not been ridden. if you have wearing on the fork chrome, best get a set of bushes for the sliders, they are cheap. phil and andy have them
 
The Bike has been stripped and in various boxes in the garage. Been buying odd bits and pieces as they popped up. Bought a case with kicker in it for £28 on evilbay when I pointed out to the seller the damage around the o ring groove on the water pump face that he didn't mention. he apologised and refunded me and said keep the case, nice bloke. I bought another assortment of side cases (4) and airboxes/filter cages, of which one of the side cases is perfect (just need to transfer kicker assy into it) & two are repairable (impact damage on the clutch area) frame going to powdercoat soon. The forks will be getting a total strip & rebuild. And Andy at HVA should be relieving me of some of my hard earned as well (main source for this era Husky parts in the UK). As I am that far into it engine strip & new seals/bearings and anything else while I am in there.
Kev.
 
well worth going the whole hog as you can be pretty sure it will last another 30 years ...if it doesnt, you should have a path of redress..or is that warpath??
 
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