• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

86 500 xc

Didn realize pipes were different...at that rate ill probly stay with water cooled. Thanks fo info tho!
 
Still waiting to get cover back from bro doing welding. Think he had to order some magnesium filler rod...anyhow I ordered a new rubber bumper for the kicker as well as a me kicker bearing. On close inspection I notice I had a couple rollers that had split over their length. I assum this is be ause I had to much preload on the kicker, or it could have been that way for a while. The case had been repaired at some point, looks like the kicker gear was pused out the back side but weld repair is legit.
My question is how do I set/determine the proper kicker return spring tension? Then when installing kicker lever do I rotate the shaft back to add more tension or is this causing to much preload???
 
Finally ran across huskydogs video! Got it fingered! Had it set several splines to far and allowing pawl to ingauge when it shouldn't. Hope it calmed down the vibration.
 
I got the front brake bracket made. Also plumbed front brake. Got fluid threw the line and out of brake but have yet to bleed it. Need to make a perminant mount system for the brake line but its held out of the way by zipties for the time being.

Wondering what front and rear sprocket combo would be a good starting point? keep in mind I'd like to be coming up on or near redline at end of 1/4 mile, in 5th gear. Hoping to have enough left over from tax returns to get everything ill need to get it ready for the drag strip; slick (M&H 4x18 race master), spare back rim (dedicated to the slick), a thetherd kill switch, parts/tubing for a wheelie bar, and a new inter clutch hub as the one I have was found to have a broken spring stud/mount. I found a 93 WXC hub and I looks like it will fit??? The clutch I have is a 6 bolt and I'm unable to find anything of proper/similar vintage with 6 bolts... Would I be be better off getting a complete 5 bolt clutch set up? I understand that the 6 bolt has higher holding abilitys due to extra spring, and with a drag slick this may be a nesicesity!
 
BTW air cooled would require different frame too Single down tube vs wish bone.
(WC was a center EX port and AC was a side Ex port.) Lots more than just a pipe, head, and cylinder.
 
Thanks for info joe. I'm quite sure ill be sticking with the water cooled! Just to much involved in swaping air cooled. The frame would be easy as I built this one anyhow.
I have from brakes!!! Her good ones at that! Just coasted I'd down the ramp at my shop and its capible of doing a stoppie(nose wheelie). Nice to know ill be able to stop in an acceptable distance now. Getting antsy to get side cover and radiators back, so I can really try them out.
 
I got a spare set of rims(so i can keep the nobbies for dirt), a 21" speedmaster front and the slick ordered today!!! Also had them throw in a decompression valve to spare the case from any more damage.
Clutch cover and radiators came back today also! My buddy who does my TIG welding for me is a true artist! The cover required an large area to be fillled and it looks so good! Not to mention the cover is magnesium!!!

 
Got it all together and put a fresh kicker lever rubber bumper on! Took it to the shop and ran it around on the chip seal. It spins just as as it did in the dirt! Had a bro take a couple videos but he's having a hard time emailing/txtin them to me.
With the air filter on it boges out at higher rpm, not to mention it is running fatter that's a pig! I used some 50:1 mix and I have been running 40:1 so sure that's part of it. After 10, 1st and 2nd grear runs in parking lot I took it out on the street and ran it through 4th gear! It tracked strait and in 3rd gear I can wack it and it don't brake the tire loose so bad, but still pushes the whole bike sideways. 4th gear is OUT OF SIGHT!
I I can't get over how smooth it feels!
 
it will probably have a hard time hooking up with the hardtail..you can maybe try a superbike width tire for some contact patch
 
justintendo said:
it will probably have a hard time hooking up with the hardtail..you can maybe try a superbike width tire for some contact patch
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Yeah the dirt tire has been sitting in a garage for 6 or more years and is hard as a diamond. I have a 4" wide drag slick ordered that ought to make some traction.
 
sounds like it isnt running too bad...after you get it out on the street some youll find you can operate it kinda like a four stroke, and let it lug around. they are definitely a unique sound. it will make a good bit more power with a silencer or at least a solid tube attached to the chamber maybe a 8-12 inches long
 
It got a freshly packed "hush puppie" silencer on it(the bright aluminum piece along top hard tail bar).
 
Took it to the shop today and added a 1" stinger to end of expansion chamber. It is about 8" long and flairs out to 1 1/4" at end to fit I.D. of silencer. What a diferance! Made for way more torque. Still smokes tire in 1st but now it lifts the front tire in 2nd on.
 
well done on the case repairs mag is a real bitch! most of the stihl/partner quick cut saws are made of mag alloy so anyone who repairs those should be able to do cases, just general info for anyone needing repairs.
 
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