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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

AND SO IT BEGINS! MY 86 XC 400 BASKET CASE ASSEMBLY

ajcmbrown said:
Check Evo-mx.com decals, great quality and really finish off a project! Yours are a little different, but they have them.
Tony.

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Yea I wish I would have known about evo-mx before I finished this project. I used Vintage Roost. Dont get me wrong I like those guys at vintage.
Its just the color is a little off. The blue and yellow are lighter than stock. The decals stick good though and they are vented which makes getting bubbles
out a lot easier. You noticed one tank badge is missing. I lost it some how. I know if I order more I will find the lost one. They are only $18 for the set.
I guess I should quit being cheap and order some.
 
justintendo said:
get a bumper on that kick lever before it ruins that sidecase! bike is looking good, like the uptite pipe
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Thanks for the advice. I was wondering what pipe I had. It came with the bike, had no idea who made it. So its an uptite pipe glad to know.



as an FYI that is not clinically an UpTite pipe, it's an HP pipe, that said George made them for Husky Products
if you look the pipe goes up at the first bend, like this one


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RickyDZero said:
Yea I wish I would have known about evo-mx before I finished this project. I used Vintage Roost. Dont get me wrong I like those guys at vintage.
Its just the color is a little off. The blue and yellow are lighter than stock. The decals stick good though and they are vented which makes getting bubbles
out a lot easier. You noticed one tank badge is missing. I lost it some how. I know if I order more I will find the lost one. They are only $18 for the set.
I guess I should quit being cheap and order some.
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Just for comparison, this is the wrong decal that was sent to me, this is what yours should look like.


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justintendo said:
get a bumper on that kick lever before it ruins that sidecase! bike is looking good, like the uptite pipe
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Justin as usual, voice of reason, always lookin' out for the bikes. Reminds me that I've got a couple of kick start bumpers in an envelope someplace that I have forgotten to affix to a couple of clutch covers. It's good to be lucky, but better to be smart!
 
After a year of fighting infections in my feet and the loss of 3 toes am finally healthy. l have also lost 35 pounds ( no not just from having my toes amputated lol). I have rode the 400 xc a few times. As some of you have shared the motor is fantastic to say the least. (WOW) I am starting to get the bike sorted out for me but this is taking some time. The suspension is way too soft ( not just for me but others as well). I tried a spring off of an xr 600. It looked stiffer but was worse than the one that came on the bike. So I called RaceTech and have not heard back from them. Local vintage shop here thinks he has a spring that will work. Going to see him right now will keep you posted.
 
Up date : Rick at Motocenter had a Eibach spring on his self that works perfect. Had to use different collars as the Ohlins collars (ID )are too small. The bike is now sprung properly for my weight with correct sag. It rained yesterday so riding should be great! Cant wait to try!!
 
I think I need to do the same Ricky, mine are a little soft for my 220lbs too. I think the originals were for 180lb rider, not my 220lb bulk!
I hope it works well, give us a ride report?
Stop losing toes while you can still ride a bike!
Tony.
 
ajcmbrown said:
I think I need to do the same Ricky, mine are a little soft for my 220lbs too. I think the originals were for 180lb rider, not my 220lb bulk!
I hope it works well, give us a ride report?
Stop losing toes while you can still ride a bike!
Tony.
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I here that:thumbsup:
 
Finally got to test the 400 after changing shock spring and correct sag. To my dismay I could not tell a difference at all. I did however find shock oil on shock bumper. Not a lot but some ,so maybe I have a blown shock ? I dont know much about this. Suggestions plz.
 
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