• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 one worthy of some love and tlc

Ive found an easy start method
prime twice get to start of pre compression stroke choke on and open trottle fully just like starting an old chainsaw
works first kick every time
 
the motoplats have the cdi built into the upper unit...it is not a just a "coil" like a femsa. the lead also does not unscrew from the motoplat! some have been ruined that way, lol..glad you got it started rethreading the cap on tho...thats usually a good tune up tip
 
Mine works fine but lead is gone hard and brittle so had to shorten it back and relocate it temp so i can ride it and test the engine before i strip it
 
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a few more pics of progress and the play toy while the husky being done
 

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Who can repair gear dogs ?
Id like to put a new edge on them
new gears are a bit pricey maybe usa has a source of new gears an half the price of uk??
 
Going to be an easy build as nothing too bad inside just 1 gear set and a bush to be fitted in the kickstart shaft hole
new bearings seals and she be good to race
 

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justintendo said:
the 10-finner doesnt look to have been rode all that much
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The previous owner didnt ride it anyways
The crap i washed out of the cases i was expecting bits to fall out at me but im happy its only 4 shaft bearings 2 gears a pair of idle bearings crank seals and gaskets
kick shaft is a tad loose in the case so getting a bronze bush fitted at the machine shop and everything in spec
plenty of time inbetween to paint my frame and swingarm forks springs and source some ss spokes
 
A few pics of engine strip and cases split really been lucky as between the 2 boxes ive just 2 gears to buy new and their numbered 373 / 379 which makes identifying easy
Cases perfect no spun bearings all tight as a nut
tiny bits of corrosion in bottom crank chamber so will have to ckean that and fill with something to stop a hole coming through
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Mick, o lordy, ain't you the talented one tho!!

very nice, I admire the extra steps some people go to with their/our old bikes.

Did you have any problem with shrinkage?...errrr...

A local library somehow has a 3D printer and a 3d scanner..
The scanner scans your part..well, haha...and supplies a digital (oops again) file for the 3d printer equipment to print the sample part...in plastic I suppose.

The library is encouraging people to learn to use it, soo...

I theorized about

1. scanning a part...(stop it, a motorcycle part)
2. tinkering with the scale of the digital rendering, adding where appropriate design changes are desired, and adding enough for shrinkage and extra material to machine away to the right surfaces
3. 3D printing in plastic which would serve as the plug
4. then make the core boxes and all like you did.

good show, keep it going..
 
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