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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

83 430 Rider Project

They were a brushed aluminum, but a lot of the vintage guys polish them out. The stickers in my opinion were a little too much.
 
oh yeah very nice sound.......well done man
hey is your rear guard loose ? it sure looked like it
any chance of some action shots ???
 
There is a very small bottoming bumper on the shaft. The ITC has an internal hydraulic locking feature that is the same concept but not the same design as the later Curnutt bypass shock.
 
OK, I know the ITC bumper is very small, I couldnt see it in the pics. Did you use an 18" rear wheel? I dont see the Sedona tire in a 17".
 
The ITC's are a different concept compared to the earlier Ohlin's. I used an 18" rear wheel as that is what came on the bike. The 17's were on the earlier bikes.
 
Hey Scott, just came across your build here. It really came out nice. I just completed a restoration of my '78 390cr Husky. I bought it as a well used (unbeknownst to me) demo bike back in 1979. I was doing more desert (Jawbone Cyn, Calif. City, Johnson Valley) riding back then so I had them put an OR tank on and Curnutts. I just started racing the Cal VMX motocross races (next one is at Glen Helen next Sunday). I was wondering how much and how long to have you rebuild my shocks? I came across your blog looking for fix to my starting problem. I've got a new Mikuni carb on it but in the last month that it's been running it never starts easy. When it does, it runs like a bat out of h___! After washing last night, I haven't been able to get it to start period. I'm getting gas and spark, but no go. I don't recall ever having a starting problem back 30+ years ago, but I've been told the 390's were always hard starters. Any ideas since I see you have one too?

Thanks,Bill
Fallbrook,CA
 
Wild Bill said:
Hey Scott, just came across your build here. It really came out nice. I just completed a restoration of my '78 390cr Husky. I bought it as a well used (unbeknownst to me) demo bike back in 1979. I was doing more desert (Jawbone Cyn, Calif. City, Johnson Valley) riding back then so I had them put an OR tank on and Curnutts. I just started racing the Cal VMX motocross races (next one is at Glen Helen next Sunday). I was wondering how much and how long to have you rebuild my shocks? I came across your blog looking for fix to my starting problem. I've got a new Mikuni carb on it but in the last month that it's been running it never starts easy. When it does, it runs like a bat out of h___! After washing last night, I haven't been able to get it to start period. I'm getting gas and spark, but no go. I don't recall ever having a starting problem back 30+ years ago, but I've been told the 390's were always hard starters. Any ideas since I see you have one too?

Thanks,Bill
Fallbrook,CA
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Figure about $100 to rebuild your shocks. I normally have them back to you within a week.
 
Wild Bill said:
Hey Scott, just came across your build here. It really came out nice. I just completed a restoration of my '78 390cr Husky. I bought it as a well used (unbeknownst to me) demo bike back in 1979. I was doing more desert (Jawbone Cyn, Calif. City, Johnson Valley) riding back then so I had them put an OR tank on and Curnutts. I just started racing the Cal VMX motocross races (next one is at Glen Helen next Sunday). I was wondering how much and how long to have you rebuild my shocks? I came across your blog looking for fix to my starting problem. I've got a new Mikuni carb on it but in the last month that it's been running it never starts easy. When it does, it runs like a bat out of h___! After washing last night, I haven't been able to get it to start period. I'm getting gas and spark, but no go. I don't recall ever having a starting problem back 30+ years ago, but I've been told the 390's were always hard starters. Any ideas since I see you have one too?

Thanks,Bill
Fallbrook,CA
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When you have it running spray ether near the base gasket to check for leaks.
 
My 79 390or has always been good about firing right up unless it sits. Even then 5 maybe 6 kick and it'll light right up. Is spark possibly weak and/or intermittent? I had a coil on my 85 500xc fool me a bit once. Checked for spark... it had spark and fuel but no start. After kicking a hole in a relatively new pair of boots (literally) I figured I'd check for spark again with a fresh plug. Kicked the bike over numerous times with the plug out and discover it would only spark one out of every 7 or 8 kicks. Put a different motoplat coil on it and never looked back. Still runs great and fires right up. Different bike but just figured I'd throw it out there. Hopefully ya get it dialed.
 
The spark can be intermittent. I see one spark happen and I think it has spark. We need to see multiple sparks. Been there done that too.
 
I never run the stock small ITC bumpers. Yes Yes I know the have mechanism cone to firm it up a great deal at end of stroke but if they do bottom hard from something you may bend a shaft. full size bumper is just better insurance. by the time shock reaches that thin bumper the damage may be right there happening.
 
yep, if the bike is subjected to a slow g out dip that progressively increases the shocker speed, the cones don't come into play, man they can bottom out hard.
 
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