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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'87 250WR vs 250XC

Well, I didn't end up getting the XC ... but I did find a WR that I picked up last weekend! It is a project and will be a lot of work but should be a good starting point. How are the DC Plastic kits for this bike? Genuine plastic seems to be nla or crazy expensive.
 

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Mogly406 said:
Well, I didn't end up getting the XC ... but I did find a WR that I picked up last weekend! It is a project and will be a lot of work but should be a good starting point. How are the DC Plastic kits for this bike? Genuine plastic seems to be nla or crazy expensive.
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Nice find.
Most original plastic can be saved with some re-conditioning work. Unless the pieces are badly cracked or missing, I would try to save or find original replacements. Also, Acerbis for example, still makes nice original-like front and rear fenders.
In my current 87 250 XC rebuild / restore, most of the cost is in sourcing replacement mechanical parts and machining work. If you don't have to rebuild any engine bits, you will be lucky and save money.
 
He does not have everything listed, If you do not see what you need, email him and ask. That is how I got the swingarm bearing sleeves for my 1978 ML swingarms. They were not listed but because they are a few mm shorter than the ones that are listed, he had a few sets just in case
 
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