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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

82.5 cr500

Progress!

Well the 83 pipe I modded to fit the chassis was needed by another CH member so we traded, 430 RetroRocket for my 500 pipe. Got the chassis out again and first thing to do again...... is a pipe. I had a well used Ashe/Pro Circuit pipe off of a thrashed 82-430XC I got last fall. I thought I would see how it fits the 500. I mocked up some cases,barrel and head. Fit pretty good with mods only needed at the spigot, 500's different angle and higher. Couple of hours of cutting and fitting I now have it tacked in place. Next step is work on the rest of it, its rougher than the pics show. I have all my engine parts rounded up other than the crank, its getting lower pin and bearing replacement at the machine shop.
Next step is cutting off steering head and tuck it to 28 deg. Cut off and fab mounts for CRF450 pegs and mounts.
 

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Pegs are done.

I was going to cut off the stock mounts and weld some other brand mounts on and use their pegs. Instead i came up with my own. Having size 13's most pegs are too small esp. stock Husky pegs. I have Husky Prod. ones on my 82 CR250 but they aren't any longer than the stockers. Obviously had too much time on my hands today so I finished up these pegs I started last fall. Put a boot on and measured what was needed for a good peg. Twisted some metal and TIG'd it together. Used a involute cutter on the mill for some "teeth". Drilled some lightening holes for looks only, I'm 275lbs, would it really matter? Haven't drilled the holes for the springs yet but the stock peg springs will work. Yes the pegs are long and may drag with my "bar dragging bermshots", yeah right......
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1982 430XC, (2)1982 CR250's, 1983 500XC, 1984 WR250

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