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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

73' CR400 Restoration...

halffast said:
Nice resto ! I went with a set of Husky Junk triples and love them . I noticed the rear brake pedal is riding high and this is a common problem on the these old bikes . The tab at the bottom of the pedal that is supposed to limit its upward travel is too wimpy ; it wears and bends allowing the pedal to move too far upward . That position makes you take your foot off the peg and stomp down on the pedal with little" feel " for the brake which can result in locking it up and stalling the engine . I had this problem on my Mag . Tried bending the tab , beefing it up , etc. all to no avail . I ended up fabbing a bracket and welding it to the back side of the pedal . The bracket has a threaded hole for a bolt that goes up against the back cradle portion of the frame . This bolt creats an adjustable pedal stop . Use a nut on the bolt threads to lock it into position . You may want to weld a piece of metal on the frame for the bolt to contact so it doesn't wear into the frame . This setup works well and is out of the way . Sorry , no picture but I hope I have described the adjustable stop well enough that an excellent fabricator such as yourself can easily make one .
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halffast - Thats really interesting .... I remember when I was working on the brake pedal thinking it was a bit out of shape and I spent a while fighting with it until I thought it was straight ... I did bend that tab in a bit and I did observe wear on both the pedal and frame!

I will come up with a way to lower the pedal by making an end stop of some sort .... Thank you.

Also - you say you fitted alloy tripples .... Are they really worth the $$$ ?? - I have been very tempted by them. (its so easy to go on spending money so that was a line in the sand of sorts)
 
Halffast,

You were 100% right .... brake pedal is now down further and feels way better.... simple mod as seen below! - Thank you

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Gunner said:
Vintage 400 vs 450 for racing

Anyone have any thoughts, opinions about the differences between racing a 1973 CR 400 or a CR450. I found a really nice 73' 450 and a not so nice 74' 400. I plan on racing which ever I buy. Obviously,
each seller has been giving me their opinion on why I should buy their bike. I would be glad to get some outside advice on resale, handling, parts availablity, etc. Thanks
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Not to hijack, but I'm wondering this, too. I'm gathering parts, the bike will end up '73 or '74, and can be 400 or 450cc. Any motor comparisons out there?
 
Hey Retro,
I'd like to copy your chain tensioner if you don't mind. Do you happen to have the RM125 year or part number for that spring?
 
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