• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 CR500, here begineth the lesson

grouty said:
Yep, I find increasing the main jet size by at least ten fold on a friday night helps with the beer flow. I am thinking of developing a fuel injection system for Tribute (just for friday nights). Red wine needs only a 500 main.
Keep going Joe. You'll be there soon.
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For non-UK residents, 'Tribute' is an English Ale that increases performance but at the risk of serious damage to the exhaust port.
 
Wildebeest90210 said:
For non-UK residents, 'Tribute' is an English Ale that increases performance but at the risk of serious damage to the exhaust port.
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You know, I see nothing here about increasing air intake, makes for very poor performance, which is why you have exhaust port problems all the time, hence why we non-UK people often say about the UK's, there's another "joe blow"


Now, about that bike thing...........
 
Well, the kick starter gave up the ghost pretty much. BUT !!! I have a video to upload later which features an Audi, A wife and a ridiculously childishly happy middle aged man ****************************************
I have an auto jumble to pack for now though and there won't be a big Husky slung on top with a free to good home label either ****************************************.
 
Bloody hell Joe, I'm glad you don't work as a BBC camera man :)
Sounds sweet though. Beer just does it !
 
WooHoo! Congratulations on your bike. I as well as many ohers have been watching & waiting to hear / see it run. Hard to believe the same hands that made all those fine parts & modifications are the ones running that video camera. Also luved the primal man grunt of happyness.
 
Sounds sweet, it's all coming together at last, nice one. Were you the cameraman on The Blair Witch Project?
 
So glad its running and it sounds pretty good, I rode it for 1/2 a mile or so and although I didn't rev it high it pulls like a train. Started on the kicker when warm really easy (when I could find a tooth).
One mistake I made was to use molykote on the rebuild. Its fine with a 4T here and there but poisoned the fuel from the off, combine that with weak spark and an antique carb and its a lot of sweat and tears.
Glad to be doing finishing jobs....still a few of snags left though.

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But this is possibly the most important part still left to fit I've got the horn !!

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Are you running an AC or DC system Joe ?
I'm not sure of the power the later motors like yours put out, but my 78 does not have the output to run a full set of road legal lights and horn.
AC horns take a great deal more power to run than DC ones.
 
grouty said:
Are you running an AC or DC system Joe ?
I'm not sure of the power the later motors like yours put out, but my 78 does not have the output to run a full set of road legal lights and horn.
AC horns take a great deal more power to run than DC ones.
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Small 9v battery. All my MOT man wants for a 'daylight' MOT test is a horn with a constant pitch and thats it to get an MX bike on the road.
 
So, I'll be taking a break from posting on this thread for a couple of months. Well, a couple of breaks;
Clavical
Scapular
3 ribs an a bruised lung.
Followed by a short break in the local Hospital, high point I think was waking up at 3am in a morphined haze, not knowing where I am an finding an American man forcing a piece of fuel hose down the end of my weener !
I'll finish it off in the spring and post it all up. Thanks to all for the technical and moral support. Any advice on what to do with one arm for a couple of months (apart from the obvious) gratefully recieved.
Cheers, Joe :cheers:
By the way Grouty, if I can do this much damage offroad on a bike without an engine think what I could achieve on one with an engine !

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Oh dear, that's a nasty set of injuries! Those peddly things are just plain dangerous! That's a seriously furry chest you have there, have you ever thought of waxing?
 
Get well soon Joe. I still reckon one with an engine is safer !......... probably !
Is that an M6 stud and nut you have fastened on your left side ? One of Duckmans brackets bolted to that and the bars should make sure you don't part company again.
 
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