• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Chayzed Pilot said:
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.

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Great thread. I have been watching and I think this build thread will finally launch me into action on the 81 XC.430.
My tank is way too nice to redo though.:notworthy:

IMO the stickers are too shiny....
 
prefer it with stickers, actually balances the look of the bike and lets your eyes focus on the beauty of the bike as a whole, very good job.
now get a chain on it and cover it in mother earth.whos the dude with the pointy head?.
 
Wow, it looks awesome either way. It does have a more classic look with the chrome panels,but a factory look witht the all red tank. I would like to see it with the white number plates. I guess I'm old school and like the classic husky look. You did a great job on this bike.
 
Me , switch out the blue /yellow ribbons that were on tank ( originally) for silver/black . Keep the 83 look but new and modern version. If you had the white side plates you could extend them silver/ black down the plates like original. Since you have black side plates, produce them for side panes in red/silver . But line up the stripe at tank and side plate, silver to silver and black to red.

Then do your front and side plates in silver background and red numbers .
 
i would put something on the tank, whether it be the chrome or stripes...those chrome ones really do a nice job of finishing the bike off....looks great
 
Hey Darty, I thinks silver and Gold ribbons would look good too. Silver would tie into the frame and gold to the rims.
 
looks like every other Husky with the panels, just go the red!. I use WD 40 for tyres, works a treat. or just baby powder.
 
The votes on the tank were interesting. I have the build on another site and did the same thing. Chrome was the choice 2 to 1. But I don't know what I will do with it anyway.

So now some more fun begins. Fine tuning of the bike and correcting little stuff.

First thing is taking a small amount off the pipe side number plate. It was hitting the pipe so I trimmed a little off it to keep it away from the pipe.



I took a small propane torch to the edge of the plastic to smooth it out after the cut.



I messed with the chain guide that Ron's brother Bill made, to center it on the sprocket. He had the foresight to make the spacers two different size's so it is adjustable. Red lines point to them.

 
Over this past weekend I had family over for our Christmas. We do it early as the grand kids and kids have other places to go.

I worked on the carb as I broke the main jet holder when I went through the carb. I found one on evilbay for a cheap price. Figured I would set the float level while I am back in the carb. I remembered it was overflowing when I bought it.




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Got the rear wheel on with all the proper spacers and did a real test fit. I should be getting the chain this week.



 
My next to oldest grandson decided to stay with us for a few days. He wanted to learn how to do some of the stuff I am doing on the bikes. So I turned him loose with the blast cabinet and taught him how to prep parts for plating. He looks a little like he is not enjoying himself here, but I'm sure he was. I just don't think he is very photogenic. Ha



While he was doing prep work I made some end caps for the rear of the frame I cut the hoop off of. I made them a few thousandths larger than the bore to make it a press fit.



All installed. They will look slick.




I think the one mistake I have made in messing with zinc plating........is I'm getting a little carried away. I think I am done with plating on this bike.

 
The grandson spent close to two hours plating a clutch spring and these 8 bolts. He did a grand job.



I was off work early yesterday and went down to the bike shop and bought a new DID chain. I was almost going to go with a gold one, but couldn't bring myself to doing it. Set the axle adjustment in place and put the chain on and inserted the brake rod. I will be taking it all apart as I have a swingarm mounting bolt correction I have to make.



More to come.
 
what could you stuff up with the swing arm??? hey bike is looking so gooood, its a display special! no one will have one this good looking
 
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