• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

'84 Husky 500 Frame - Good Candidate for TT500 motor?

jimspac said:
I would think so. I believe the 81- 82 frames have about 30 degree rake as well
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Jim,
Yes 79-83 Huskys all had the 30.5 degree steering head angle, changed to 28 degrees on all models in 1984 (according to Cycle World) , my 84 250XC, i know has this type frame. But
remember there's a bunch of 83's left over that were sold as 84 that were NOT upgraded.

John
 
Here are some pictures from Scott of his 28 degree frame mod:

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I think I am going to have to go over to his place and modify a frame with him. Maybe on my CR 250. Scott what do you say? I'll bring tidings of joy. Pete
 
Here is Scott's description of hte process:

You can set the bottle jack against the rear airbox crosspiece. Use a rod to reach to the steering head. Wrap a chain or strap around rod so it can't force nose of jack up.

If you are going to do multiple frames, you might want to turn a 1" thick piece of aluminum slightly bigger than the steering head, cut it in two and press against that to prevent deformation of the steering head.

Take a 4" grinder and carefully seperate the steering head gusset plates from the top tube and steering stem. Pull them back slightly for room.

Cut the frame about an inch from the steering head. Heat lower tube with propane torch, jack to desired dimension and tack.

Wrap the cut with similar thickness metal and weld tubes together, grind down and weld plate over the split, then grind gusset plates so they lay flat and weld them back.

Paint and you"re ready to carve turns.

Let me know if you have any questions.
 
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