• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Baking day. Only the ignition side as I left the two circlips for the gearbox bearings at work, Doh ! Spent a very tedious hour and a half tapping 30 years of gunk out of all the threads first on both sides.
Never baked a whole case before. No probs though, used the same thermocouple I use on big lumps of cow. 210 degrees c and they dropped right in. I used the PEEK caged main with less balls which may bite me in the arse later, the SKF specs look OK for it though. I may gain 0.0000001 horsepower from less friction and weight ?!
Time to replace the case with a ham and drink beer now.

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jimspac said:
Looks very nice but thinks you got someone elses tank unless you have the Katoom it belongs to
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It's on page 1 of this thread, its going to be so orange now it will bring on migraines and trigger epilectic fits. With the exhaust causing bleeding ears maybe I should just get an ambulance to follow me around, might be handy when I finally get this Hoosqvarna on the road too !
 
Wildebeest90210 said:
Just got my tank back from Dennis the paint man. Lovely finish but something just doesn't look quite right......

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That's an abomination! :lol:
 
You wouldn't think this represents 40 minutes of my life.

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Its the one on the bottom by the way ****************************************
 
Waiting for the crank cases to come back from painting. Waiting for wheels to come back with shiny 17" rims.
Good news though, tomorrow I go on a huge shopping spree to HVA factory. Nearly everything I need including new clutch cover in ally...Thank you VISA, you came through for me.

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I saw them too, i sent an email to HVA to see what they say.

Husky junk says one part # fits up to 89.

sorry for the hi jack.
 
New levers just in. I am loving the NOS 80's BMX mesh plate I got off Ebay. I might put a link on the main forum, they got blue and red as well. I think everyone should have one !

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Well, you are right if this is 80's BMX Motard. Where I lived, if you were into BMX, you had to have the latest lightweight but fully chromed frame. And any coomponents that looked like they could stand to lose weight like cranks and seats we're drilled out.

Any way, fun build you have going, looking forward to the finished product.
 
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