• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 and up Engines in 1978 ML Frame Questions

It was included with the machine. When I have more money to play with ( after one or two are sold:( ) I would like to get a better TIG.

On my way to NH to pick up the welder I stopped at a bearing supplier to cross reference swingarm bearings and a variety of seals. For $48 I got (4) bearings for 1 swingarm, O Rings for (5) swingarms, and L & R crankseals for (2) engines. Seals for forks and wheels I will have to order. Definately worthwhile to cross reference for bearings and seals
 
Dad's came with his too, and he is a Mustang car guy so he never used it. A month or so ago I was going to weld an '82 Husky tank back there at the seat/backbone area where they wear/crack. For about 4 hrs I tried a bunch of different scraps of AL to practice on and it would just blob up or melt the AL but never bond as a weld.
 
If it was me i'd just extend the exhaust flange that bolts to the cylinder & then mess with the pipe, should just be able to just make an extension
like a muffler shop would do.
Husky John
 
I planned on extending the exhaust flange to meet the pipe rather than mess with the pipe. That is a perfectly fine 82 250WR exhaust and it has an 82 250WR it belongs to first. This is mostly a developement exercise to see what it would take to build this.
 
Kartwheel68 said:
Dad's came with his too, and he is a Mustang car guy so he never used it. A month or so ago I was going to weld an '82 Husky tank back there at the seat/backbone area where they wear/crack. For about 4 hrs I tried a bunch of different scraps of AL to practice on and it would just blob up or melt the AL but never bond as a weld.
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I read the instructions for the spool welder and on aluminum it says to use only pure Argon for shielding gas. Not Argon/CO2
 
One thing about the spool welder is that you have to use pure argon for aluminum and min thickness is about 1/8" If you tried to weld thinner aluminum with the 75% Argon/25% Co2 gas or straight Co2 gas it would likely sputter
 
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