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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

A day in the life of: www.hva-factory.com

Yes, Lovely aren't they****************************************

I know some people don't like them - but I do****************************************

The trouble is the new gold ones just don't look right either....

I will change the Ohlins canisters to Gold and then I think she will look splendid - with a 'gripper' black seat cover too.

Does anyone know what shims should be in the shim stacks in the shocks for a 430/82 - or will I have to guess??? The Ohlins I have are NOS, but really over-damped.

I think I will have this bike on the stand at the Telford Show in February, along with NEW 510 / twinshock special Husky frames and new 4t heads and cylinders...

Andy.
 
hva-factory said:
Yes, Lovely aren't they

I know some people don't like them - but I do

The trouble is the new gold ones just don't look right either....

I will change the Ohlins canisters to Gold and then I think she will look splendid - with a 'gripper' black seat cover too.

Does anyone know what shims should be in the shim stacks in the shocks for a 430/82 - or will I have to guess??? The Ohlins I have are NOS, but really over-damped.

I think I will have this bike on the stand at the Telford Show in February, along with NEW 510 / twinshock special Husky frames and new 4t heads and cylinders...

Andy.
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Andy, im sure you know but the insides of the 82 ohlins are very different to the insides of the 83 ITC type !
i used the internals from the ITC's in the 82 bronze ohlins.
needs a bit of machining but ive heard that you're ok with 'a flat file'

Robin @ Falcons is handy with the ITC shim's, size, thickness, number etc
 
Is there a 400 kit to do the conversion? Cylinder? Does the 430 head fit? The standard 390/430 piston fit
L I assume this fits a 430 bottom end?
 
hva-factory said:
I discovered the reason this weekend of why we sell top brand Talon Sprockets! I had this 12t sample lying around and threw it on my spare bike. Big mistake!!! Luckily I had a Talon one on the van and managed to fit it in the 3 minutes I had at a time check...View attachment 83629
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I remember being far from the trailer on the pipeline in mass. The youngster who rode with us had a sprocket like that. It’s one of thos new variable ratio sprockets right? We made it up some big hills there I could hear the sprocket changing ratios all the way, the kid made it to the trailer. I sweated on that ride. Onetime we passed a bear on that trail. I always kept my bike in top condition to ride the pipeline. This isn’t a short ride. The hills are vertical in some areas.
 
hva-factory said:
Yes, Lovely aren't they

I know some people don't like them - but I do

The trouble is the new gold ones just don't look right either....

I will change the Ohlins canisters to Gold and then I think she will look splendid - with a 'gripper' black seat cover too.

Does anyone know what shims should be in the shim stacks in the shocks for a 430/82 - or will I have to guess??? The Ohlins I have are NOS, but really over-damped.

I think I will have this bike on the stand at the Telford Show in February, along with NEW 510 / twinshock special Husky frames and new 4t heads and cylinders...

Andy.
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Picklito might know the shim stack or a good one. He has messed around revalving those a lot.

Prob just Pm him.
 
I just want to give a HUGE thumbs up to HVA on customer service. I ordered some parts on Monday and they were delivered on Friday. From the UK to Texas in 4 days...are you kidding me and I've been waiting on an item from NY for almost 3 weeks. Just wanted to say how much appreciate it...great service and great products
 
Thanks guys!

It is always nice to hear when we get it right!!!

Do please be aware though, that when we are away racing - like next April in Australia for the A4DE - there will be no-one here to ship orders...****************************************

Andy.
 
Thanks! Wait til you see the finished 81/82 400 Nikasyled WR!!!

That is really shaping up nicely....

Pretty sure it will be on the stand for the Telford Show in Feb, along with a NEW Twinshock 510 / 570 Aircooled.... as in new Frames and everything!!!

Andy.
 
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