• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

hva-factory said:
We are moving away from EBC to some new shoes that have the metal particles in them - like the Genuine Husky ones did...
Getting batches of 4t pistons made in the unavailable sizes soon...
Regarding the Autoroche headlamps, they made us a batch of 50 with the 3 lugs last time. I will ask if they will do us some sealed beam ones and also a Bosch alternative for the later bikes...
Building a pair of very trick 450cc 1984 Liquid cooled 2t's for the VMXDN at Farleigh in September.
Going over to the K2 single shock fork is better and use a progressive spring. This is a better fork upgrade...
Sorry - we wont do the Auto stuff - that is too small a market!
Will think up some other new stuff!!!

Thanks for all the input,

Andy.
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With all the auto owners on this forum, you could sell twenty 1st clutch drum for 430/500 ae.
Idem for sets of 1st clutch steel shoes.
 
GMX are making special single radiators so we can use the small clarke 83 tank and 84 single rad scoops (the filler neck needs to move to do this). I think the 450 will be enough! I want them to ride like a small bike and you lose that completely with the 500. We are re-casting the lower Husky fork leg oversize - to go on the 45mm Marzocchis - to at least make them look right! Everyone cheats like crazy with bikes for farleigh, most Evos are not 1989!!!

Andy.
 
Michel Dufayard said:
With all the auto owners on this forum, you could sell twenty 1st clutch drum for 430/500 ae.
Idem for sets of 1st clutch steel shoes.
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Not too sure about that Michel, there are some on ebay now probably at less than it would cost for Andy to make them and they have not been snapped up! I have a couple of NOS spare sets so I would not be in the market for them.
 
Andy,

Will you be able to use the stock Nippon single radiator on the 450 special your building? I have a 1984 250CR fame and want to install a 430 just as you are, but wasn't sure if the single radiator would work. It looks like the cylinder head may not clear the stock 250/125CR radiator. Thanks and keep up the good work!
 
No it will not fit. Needs to have 2 x that capacity. GMX are using high density 42?mm cores and 20mm wider each side. Need a cut out to miss the cylinder. I never said it would be easy****************************************

Had a Wheeelie busy day today****************************************!IMG_2252.jpg
 
stormer254 said:
Not too sure about that Michel, there are some on ebay now probably at less than it would cost for Andy to make them and they have not been snapped up! I have a couple of NOS spare sets so I would not be in the market for them.
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You are surely right Stormer.
But if you are talking about the drum at $ 450, it is not very cheap !
I have also a set of nos shoes and a nos drum, but we need to remplace some drums, shoes and springs in the future in our several bikes.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-1983-88...ash=item3d2e8eb62d:g:pocAAOSw-0xYXFIB&vxp=mtr

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-1983-88...ash=item282729f88d:g:gdEAAOSwEzxYXUc4&vxp=mtr
 
Probably need to be made out of something different cuz most of them crack from the screw hole out ward or they just get old.
 
Eric The Leg said:
I'm not sure if you're still taking suggestions on the top ten list. I'm probably being picky here, but I'd love to get some of the hard acrylic tank badges (1985+, hard plastic held in with a screw in the middle). in my book, stick-ons just aren't the same.
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My beloved 84 KTM495 had the cracked tank emblem blues. Foolishly traded it on an RM250 but have kept the badge screws in my little box of treasures. Small things hey.
 
Are the nipples ss or just a light coating ? I have some from cc and they seem like a very small amount of ss on the nips. If you wrench them too much they have issues.
 
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