• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 XC 250 frame rake done

mattskn

Husqvarna
A Class
I finished the frame rake
Step 1: grind out the old frame gusset's and clean the frame up
Step 2: secure the frame to a table take a measurements
step 3: cut the top tube with sawzall..Dident have any problems with the neck twisting, put a straight edge on it and it didn't move..
step 4: cut about a 1/4 way through the top of the bottom tube so I could pull the neck forward, just stuck a piece of pipe in the neck and gave her hell till she move, then took a measurement 2.5 degress more than previous measurement.
step 5: I had to make a filler piece for the top tube to fill the gap, there was a 1/4+ inch gap between the top tube and the neck. And I just welded the bottom tube.
step 6: made templates of the old frame gussets and welded them back to the frame.
step 7: installed the trees and checked for the locations on the steer stops and welded them as close as I could get to the factory location.
And there you have it a 28 degree rake, now I have to get it together and see how it works.
The geometry of the bike measures almost the same as my 07 YZ 250, now only if I can get the forks to work as good HaHa..
I also welded some peg plated on to mount up Ti pegs from 06 Aluminum frame YZ they are going to look and work sweet..
I will post some pics when my friend gets the frame powder coated..I hope in the next couple of weeks..

Im also looking for a motoplat stator for 83 250 if anyone has a extra laying around..
 
Huskydoggg;15966 said:
Hi Mattskn,
I'm curious about the clearance between the front wheel/fender and frame downtube. It's already close on a stock frame.
Looking forward to your photos.
Steve

I'm also curious:confused:.What I'm going to do is get a fender from a 06 YZ that way I can mount the fender farther forward, I have already rigged a old used one I had laying around looks pretty good. If all else fails the heat gun is coming out to play and I hope it plays nice.
 
Here are some pics of the after, sorry guys I dident get any pics of the frame in bare metal only powder coated..
 

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