• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

i like the plating work for something that is going to be ridden...i need to think about getting a setup at home for it
 
Well........I haven't posted in this build for awhile as I have been busy and have had a cold for almost a week and a half. You've heard of Shark week, well I am in Shock week along with the Dakar Rallye watching. I still have two sets of Curnutts on the bench that I have to do. I took one of the Ohlins apart and blasted it and cleaned every thing up. Going to get some rebuild kits from Drew over at WER. I have most of the orings but no piston bands. Whatever paint Husqvarna used in those day's is some godawful stuff to take off. Here's a pic of the Ohlins and a restored set of Curnutts I just got done with. Busy, busy, busy.

 
one of my ohlins needs to be in that state!. its still stuck half way and lost in Mr Mc Hanics shed!:(

anyone figured out why they jam yet??? this is jammed #2
 
"I cut off the rear hoop and engine guards on the frame"
I am looking for a rear hoop and engine guards, Pilot.
If you dont use those parts and still in your hand, please le me know if you are willing to sell them.
Thanks
 
suprize said:
one of my ohlins needs to be in that state!. its still stuck half way and lost in Mr Mc Hanics shed!:(

anyone figured out why they jam yet??? this is jammed #2
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I would bet the rod is bent. I had one that was bent and I straightened it out to within 2 thousandths of an inch and it works fine. It doesn't take much of a bend to lock them up.
 
Motosportz said:
Very nice work.

You have a 81ish YZ125 with triple mounted rad :eek:
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It's an 82 first year of the linkage. I got it from the original owner with super low miles. I acquired a bunch of aftermarket billet parts, Sun rims with HD spokes and stuffed them on it. The rear suspension sucks and I am very close to converting it to twin shock with a set of Ohlins. I play around with it in the desert every once in awhile.
 
Chayzed Pilot said:
It's an 82 first year of the linkage. I got it from the original owner with super low miles. I acquired a bunch of aftermarket billet parts, Sun rims with HD spokes and stuffed them on it. The rear suspension sucks and I am very close to converting it to twin shock with a set of Ohlins. I play around with it in the desert every once in awhile.
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yeah those were funky bikes. The X-link or whatever they called it did suck. Was as bad as the backbone shock it replaced. Dual shocks huh? Interesting. I recall people have all sorts of issues with the rad (to small) and hose routing (thought the stem) as well. Odd time for YZ's. I had a 81 YZ465 was a great bike for the time. Then rode a buddies YZ490 and it was a pinging hard to start POS. wierd.
 
Hey Mr Pilot, no apologies for thread deviation. you are a victim of your own success and a shock expert. I've just bought this 1980 420 KTM for my next vintage supermoto project. Info seems limited, could you tell me anything about the shocks? PM me if you don't want to deviate but I'm guessing the readers of this might be interested even if the bike is the 'wrong colour'
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Well Wildebeest..........I am not a shock expert. I do know how to do a couple of makes. With that said, from what I can tell from your picture is that those are not the stock shocks that came on that bike. They should be rods down with a reservoir connected to the body. I don't know what those are. I don't remember exactly but they would have been Marzochhi or Corte Cosse......I think.:excuseme:
 
Ok, best thing to do I reckon is when I pick the bike up next week, is un-bolt them and post them off to you...:cheers: I just joking (kind of!?). I'm still enjoying this build no end. I have YZ envy now just to compound my misery :banghead:
 
Those are Bilstein. KTM used that brand for a long period, after Marzocchi. They work with gas and oil, even they dont have a reservoir. Bilstein built both kind of, with and without reservoir. They can be rebuilt and they worked very well. Marzocchi were more famous and "fancy" and they were used mostly on Enduro KTm in Europe.
 
Re the "bent Ohlins" it was checked and found to be perfect but once discovered and pulled apart again, I will give it a fine tooth combing as its hard to ride them chopper style, they don't turn at all....

I am planning a desert ride so will pull both spacers out to give me "XC" legs..Woo Hoo
 
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