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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

77 WR250 back from the dead

I spoke with the customer rep from DID and he recommended the 520VX2 chain.
The width of the chain is .736"/18.7mm.
I measured my chain guide and it's .831"/21.1mm.
That doesn't give much side clearance.
 
I ordered the new chain
I also got a new set of Pirelli MT16 Garacross tires.
I was going to just mount them but I'd like to clean up the rims and hubs.
Other than labor intensive cleaning and polishing is there another way to get these looking better?
 

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320 sand paper backed with packing tape worked the best. this was a quick job, and i could have really polished them much more. The rope with a little polish worked really well on the nipples. Sounds crazy, but i never care about this level of detail but it really was easy and kind of relaxing in kind of a brainless way.
Probably didn't need the wire brush at all. Just use sand paper like a shoe shine motion.
 
The baking soda blasting is messy (outside) but works well to get rid of rust and aluminum tarnish. I use chrome polish after that-works well on aluminum. The rope idea is excellent- lots less wear and tear on your fingers:thumbsup:
 
Eurofreak said:
The baking soda blasting is messy (outside) but works well to get rid of rust and aluminum tarnish. I use chrome polish after that-works well on aluminum. The rope idea is excellent- lots less wear and tear on your fingers:thumbsup:
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I bought some Mothers mag/aluminum polish and will start the process.
I know it's best to disassemble everything but I'll try it like this first.
I really dig the rope idea.
I think I have about 200' of manila twine.
 
its called duct tape my man, piss off that holey rubber band and run two or three turns of duct tape round the rim. It should sit nicely in the groove leaving the flat bits for the bead to sit in. then punch holes thru for the rim lock and valve and clean the tape out of the holes and forget it exists. while your there, elongate the valve hole with a rat tail round file so the valve can creep a fair bit without being torn out of the tube. duct tape allows you to run a flat tyre without the rubber band coming out and getting hung up on everything
 
suprize said:
its called duct tape my man, piss off that holey rubber band and run two or three turns of duct tape round the rim. It should sit nicely in the groove leaving the flat bits for the bead to sit in. then punch holes thru for the rim lock and valve and clean the tape out of the holes and forget it exists. while your there, elongate the valve hole with a rat tail round file so the valve can creep a fair bit without being torn out of the tube. duct tape allows you to run a flat tyre without the rubber band coming out and getting hung up on everything
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:cheers: that's exactly what I did!
 
Since there's multiple jobs going at once on the WR here's the tank masking. I decided to have a go at it myself and save some cash. I used what little there was left of the white stripe as a template and freehanded the rest with 6mm and 3mm tape. I taped over that and used a small razor to cut the outline. Now I'll do a perpendicular set of tape for strength and peel it off for when I'm ready to paint.
 

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