• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

So, it was a while back that you asked for a top ten list. I did enjoy looking through the responses, race updates, etc. On the top ten list...
1) Mid-1980's LC gas tanks.
2) The ability to search your site by year and/or model (I usually just search by part number, but you might get more +1 sales if that part we need were listed right next to another part that fits our bike).
3) My old man has been telling me since I bought my Husky that it needs an electric start. I'm not there yet, but I'm pretty sure a few older husky owners might quietly buy an electric start conversion if it were an option.
 
OK, come on then - lets have a new top ten Husky wants list. Sensible suggestions only please!

One of the next things for us will be a new version of the secondary (small) cover for the 2 piece clutch cover.

We are also working on an upgrade for the chain guide for the 83 / 84 bikes...

Waiting also of course for the Evo Footrests to be cast...

Andy
 
NICE LIGHT ALUMINUM SPARK ARRESTOR AND A FOLDING TIP BRAKE PEDDLE FOR THE S.S. MODELS AND 1-1/8" BAR CLAMPS WITH A ONE PIECE TOP HALF
 
A site search of by year and model would be nice. You have an incredible amount of stock and going through "frames and fixins" is cool but time consuming.

Rims for huskys. from early conical rear to last non conical rear and drum fronts to disc fronts.

otherwise all good with your stuff
 
Almost every 1984 - 1986 Husky in the entire world could do with a new tank (other than the giant Clarke tanks).
Some front brake options, like bolt in TLS kit for pre 1983 bikes, or something to improve the 85/ 86 models.
 
My first priority would be to just keep the bikes running well. Any help in this area is appreciated.
A lot of the small wear bits are starting to be hard-to-find or are stupidly expensive.
Like chain rollers and guides, bolts, linkage bearings, impeller, kick starter springs, etc. Not to mention automatic clutch parts...
 
Thanks to everyone that has replied and offered/or pointed me in the right direction (had some PM's as well). I have recently acquired a plasma cutter so I will attempt to fab a skid plate incorporating a guard using one of the front motor mounts. As usual with me it will mostly be a long time before I get round to it!
 
OK. For out latest list of new stuff we are going to do:

The Evo Fork Valve Cones 151245201 but in Bronze - so they don't wear so badly.
Outer Clutch covers for the 2 pce design.
Pump Protectors.
Evo 30mm Spherical bearings.
Evo Linkage bushes.
New Rims and Spoke kits.
Gripper Seat Covers.
Evo Footrest kits and springs.
Aircooled 510 4t Exhaust headers.

That should keep us busy in the new year!

Don't forget that we also have to make the many hundreds of parts that we regularly sell too, so this lot is just a small part of what is going on here!

We have well over a Million Pounds of new stock and don't keep any junk at all on our shelves!

Come and look!

Andy.
 
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