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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Air Box Cover Make Over

schimmelaw

schimmelaw

Husqvarna
AA Class
81 430XC street legal sm conversion in progress.

Photo 1: Stocker. As bought it was all garred up. Functional but ugly. Clear number plate material cut and installed on stocker. An improvement ----- BUT

Photo 2: Pattern used.

Photo 3: Under the knife .....saw.... and in the process of. Stocker is covered w/ blue painter's tape. Pattern from above is cut out and traced onto blue tape. Corners drilled out with wood bit - smooth cut. Metal guide bar clamped to cover and straight lines cut by hand w/ hack saw blade. For filing/smoothing/straightening out the cuts, the metal guide was used again.

Photos 4 & 5: Aluminum mesh riveted in. Mounted up.

Going to be fine for intended street use but I wouldn't use this cover for dirt use. The filter is way too exposed and there is little to no H20 protection.
 

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Highdez,
Failed expiriment. (At least it was a rat cover) Aluminum mesh I used was too filmsy/thin and would/is not attched well to the interior of the cover. I tried to use pop rivets w/ washers on the back side and it just wouldn't work. To really attach this material well you would end up using so many rivets that it just wouldn't be worth the trouble it in the long run. I would not recommend this current setup for street use and in no way would I give it a thumbs up for dirt riding application. Might as well just take the cover off.

White Bros. sells some 1" plug in vents. Thats the way to go for extra venting requirements IMO. I've got 8 or 9 laying around from a prior project. I will be using those, if I can talk myself into punching some holes in a brand new air box cover.

Motsportz,
Yes, sm conversion in progress.

Rick
 
Motosportz;57930 said:
Vintage SM?
Click to expand...

You make it sound so dirty, bad......yet....... niiiiice! I think Ricks SM project is going to open a new door for a lot of people... one of the reasons why this is a sticky thread !

T
 
I ran plug mount on the inside(LH) side of the airbox and ended up tossing them after a couple of rides because 1) their little foam filters retain water and 2) they pushed into the air filter. Now i run them open (5 holes) and i gues if it's really muddy or dusty i could always tape over the holes but who am i kidding? i'm in socal and we don't ride in that s#*&t!
 
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