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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

airbox resto

MikeDi

MikeDi

Husqvarna
AA Class
any tips on getting this black oil stained skanky POS airbox clean?
probably going to start sanding
 
I used Rustoleum Plastic and also Krylon for Plastic. Both work well and look nice as well.

Like anything else you paint cleanliness and preparation are the keys to success.
 
I purchased the plastic paint for the same reason too and I got the primer for the plastic paint.
 
I just purchased the Rustoleum 2 in 1 paint/primer for metal, wood and plastic. Curious how well it will work. Cleaned and sanded the airbox today. Previous owner had painted it blue. Plan is to spray it with plastic prep before painting. Will post a few pics when done.
 
I probably would have done the same if not for the blue paint. Just put another few coats of gloss white on this evening. It is looking better but not quite there yet. I usually sand plastics progressively up to 800 grit or so to get that new plastic look. For paint to stick, only went up to 220 grit. Mistake. Every scratch from the sandpaper was visible after painting. After 48 hours drying time, went back and lightly sanded with 400 grit. Should have done this to begin with. This made a noticeable difference, especially after tonight's application. There is a little orange peel and a couple of runs but I think some more light sanding and a couple more coats of Krylon will fix it. Maybe I should have stuck with Rustoleum paint? Not professional grade job for sure but good enough for a rider. Hopefully it holds up.
 
Just a bit more of the back story. The airbox was really stained from two stroke exhaust goop. The inside was a mouse nest so it had double the stank!
I removed it, then stuck the whole airbox in a tub of simple green for about a week. After that I scrubbed it, power washed it, let it dry. Then sanded it, tried using parts cleaner, carb cleaner, and pretty much every know toxic chemical that will melt your face off..
More sanding.... sick of that... scrubbed it with ajax / comet what ever...
The end result was a stained airbox that still leached a film of oily residue that I doubt any paint would stick to. Since it was the last thing besides mounting the tires, I pretty much resigned to the fact that it's stained. Anyway, this is a racer resto. I'm happy with it. Rock on!
 
thats the go, make it work, bolt it on! visuals only last to the first corner then mud covers it up!:thumbsup:
 
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