• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Great tip!!! I never thought about that. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....18 more spokes to go in the back wheel..........I might try that tonight..
 
disonny said:
Scott, I have a 75 puch 175 sixday. I don't ride it much and it's stored for the winter now. My brother had one in the 70's. Our buddy had a small bike shop and he sold hodaka, puch, he had some rickmans too. That twin carb must have been a blast!!
I saw a pic of a soda blaster you were using. Interesting! Did it work well? I am restoring a 78 cr250. I want to do some of the aluminum parts and I was wondering if you used the soda blaster.
Dale
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Cool Puch, I had a 175 and 125 of that year and they were the MX version. They also had heavily breathed on Mid-Valley porting and pipes. They were pretty fast.

The little home made soda blaster works real well for what it is. I do lots of little parts with it. If you buy soda get it in bulk = 20-25lb bags. It is pretty cheap that way. The only bad parts about soda blasting is you can't reuse the soda and don't blast in a confined area. It gets all over the place. Trust me on that.
 
Chayzed Pilot said:
Been home all day with a touch of the flu. Worked minimally on the bike the last few days. I will have updates later. Here is a vid I finally figured out how to edit from my go pro. Not a vintage Husky but an 04 TC450 on a little loop up around my housing area.

The California Dez.
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Great video of back yard riding. I was down that way in 09 to meet up to DS ride in Death Valley. I couldn't help but notice how there was cool riding out the back door of housing projects around Ridgecrest etc etc. Very nice!
 
I think it was this past Friday that I decided to tackle the rear wheel. Of course the rim was cracked and I had to cut the spokes out of it.



I cleaned up the hub and rear sprocket before deciding what I was going to do for a rim and spokes.



I had another rear wheel and the rim was good and the spokes are at least useable.

Here is where I am as of Sunday night.

 
I worked minimally this week and cleaned up the rear spokes and plated them. They came out good.



Last night I installed the new front tire and mounted the wheel on the bike.





More to come.
 
Here's the spokes and sprocket all cleaned and buffed out. I left the sprocket with the factory brushed finish to it. I tried the spoke in the lathe and that was a little scary, because if they are not perfectly straight they wobble around pretty good. It doesn't take much to be out of straight. I have my system down and it takes less time I think.



Rear wheel all ready to start lacing which may happen later tonight. It was 28 here last night and I only have a small heater in the garage.



More to come over the weekend.
 
This week I did get some things done. I installed the new throttle cable and grips along with the number plate..



I used this for grip glue. It works real well. Go big or go home, Ha Ha.



I laced up the rear wheel and trued it. Wasn't too bad to do. The front wheel was much harder IMO.



I pulled the bike out into the daylight to see how it looks.

 
I spent today working on different stuff and cleaning the garage again. It just never ends. Took of the kickstart lever as I had it painted and did the prep on it and plated it twice. It looks fine. I didn't go too nuts with it to make the finish look perfect.



I read something on a website and watched a video of home done brass plating and had to try it. I just grabbed a bolt out of the stash and I'll be damned it worked. I don't know what I would do it on, but it is cool.



Here's another shot of the bike.



This weeks project will be mounting the rear tire. I bought some Sedona 887 IT tires for the bike. The are a cheaper brand and I have heard good things and bad things about them. But you will here that with anything. It will be a rider and the terrain I ride in tears everything up anyway.



More coming later this week I hope. If not, everyone have a Merry Xmas.

Scott
 
Last night I figured I would put the new rear tire on. I watched a video of one of the Dunlop tire guys mounting tires because I wanted to try it a different way than what I have been doing. His method worked great. I normally use soapy water to lube the tire but it seems like it dries up to quick. Thinking............in my feeble little brain, I grabbed the wifes liquid fabric softener and used it for lube. Works like a charm and smells good to boot. Ha Ha.

Here's the bike with the tire on and the sprocket mounted.



FOR YOU FOLKS FOLLOWING THIS BUILD...........I WOULD LIKE SOME INPUT HERE. LEAVE THE GAS TANK THE WAY IT IS OR.............USE THESE STICKERS. I would cut the white down a little as I think it is too wide. I just don't want it to look hokey. Darty thinks stay with the straight red.

 
I like the straight red too. I think I might add some white backrounds to the side panels, just to match with the white fenders.
The bike looks awesome, great job!!
 
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