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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1988 WR250 revival 2016

I'm happy with the results so far, if the remaining parts end up as good I'll be looking at a nice 88!
 
Make sure to check out tptools.com if you've a diy bend. I used their kit on my cabinet and have had excellent results.
 
Here are pictures of my bead blasting set up. The glass and gasket are from an auto glass place. Air washes across the glass from the door opening. I don't vacuum the dust but rather vent that outside. By regulating your air flow I find that you can get rid of the dust and broken beads while the heavier, whole beads will tend to settle down in the hopper. Make certain to use a good air/moisture separator as moisture in the supply air fouls the gun. Many hours of use on this unit; still on my first 5gallon bucket of beads.
 

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Darrel78 said:
Here are pictures of my bead blasting set up. The glass and gasket are from an auto glass place. Air washes across the glass from the door opening. I don't vacuum the dust but rather vent that outside. By regulating your air flow I find that you can get rid of the dust and broken beads while the heavier, whole beads will tend to settle down in the hopper. Make certain to use a good air/moisture separator as moisture in the supply air fouls the gun. Many hours of use on this unit; still on my first 5gallon bucket of beads.
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What are you using as blast media?
 
Can anyone tell me if the expansion chamber from 85-86 models is the same or different to the long stroke motors? I'm not sure if the exhaust port is located differently or if the pipe is completely different, same question for the 240?
Tony Brown.
 
bikes really looking sharp...
leaving the bearing in will keep the bore round...i cut the crack out, just shy of the whole way through...then vee'd it out some. the tig put aa nice weld in without too much extra heat. one swingarm fixed this way was cracked pretty badly, as it was hidden under the chain slider. has held up a few years later.
 
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