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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Another WRX saved from the scrap heap!

I'm familiar with husqvarna-parts.com and the displacement decals, a few other sites such as DC plastics have similar stock. I've ordered from husqvarna-parts before (also Huskydogg, where I have a pending order right now, penton, hva-factory, machinist friends, machine shops, amazon ,ebay, and others).

I have on a small number of occasions seen pictures of decals showing the WRX Model, here's an example:
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If anyone knows where I might find a similar (i.e. "400 WRX") decal, I'm all ears.
Based on what appears to be masking tape to the lower right of the airbox, I wonder if that's paint on rather than decal. Maybe I just need to get creative with an air brush and masking tape.

Justintendo, Nice Ride! I suppose it's no surprise that guys on a Husqvarna forum would be into fast road bikes too! For me, I just like to sit up behind that Vetter faring in my leather jacket and bowling-ball 3/4 helmet, jam some 80's rock and ride around looking like something that just rolled out of a time machine.

Suprize, is Phil Dyno Port or another site?
Also, I noticed that Husqvarnaoutlet.com does list both pipes, and pipe restoration. A local co-worker/biker and I were talking, and he knows a local machinist/welder who he thinks might be willing/able to take on my pipes, so I may have the pipes covered (well at-least getting the WR repaired).
 
I'm not sure if he's back in business but he did answer a part enquiry email I sent him yesterday, and mentioned that he is in Brazil until Friday.
 
MarkVMod0 said:
Is huskydogg back in buisness?

I hope so!
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The person responding to my e-mail is named John (used to be Steve B). As ajcmbrown noted, John is responding to e-mail, and gave me availability and price quotes. I have yet to receive parts (or an invoice for that matter) from John, so I cannot speak to the current buying experience, but something is better than nothing.

The e-mail address has changed, so if you are like me and have Steve B saved to your contacts, you'll need to head out to huskydoggg.com and grab the new address.
 
I have the 400WRX decal that came off my air cleaner when I first removed it. I am going to try to scan it sometime and try to get someone to replicate the decal. I want a decal thin enough to clear coat over to protect it. I may get creative with an airbrush myself as there apparently is not a high enough demand for them for someone to make money replicating them
 
Phillip at Husqvarna-parts.com may have them as he has more than what is posted on his website. He is likely on vacation but then he usually has on his home page that he is closed for vacation for a time spread. Phillip will take orders for Dynoport and is an outlet for them
 
Evo mx sell the 84 graphics Suprize.

They also do custom work like the 400WRX graphic mentioned.

NB how come 'reply' with 'quotes' isnit working? is it just mine?
 
robertaccio said:
you guys are husky saviors / heroes
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I'm not sure about 'savior', I tend to think of myself as a fool who is better at letting go of my cash than the devices of the folly of my youth.

So, this fool spent some $$ today. Picked up the restored Ohlins for both of my 400's from my local Ohlins Authorized service shop.
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For any Pacific Northwest residents out there, the shop is KFG Racing Inc. in Auburn, WA, I feel they did a good job, about $375-us per shock.

Still waiting on a few parts from various sources (for those who were asking earlier, my Huskydoggg order is in the mail!).

Open items:
Waiting to hear from Evo MX on the WRX airbox decal (sent an e-mail today), if I hear anything worth sharing, I will post accordingly.
I still do need to pull the reed cage to see where I'm at on reeds. Any strong opinions on the two-piece manifold from husqvarna-parts vs. the V-force assembly from HVA-factory?
Shifting
I started another general thread on exhaust, Please take a look (it's under Vintage/Left Kickers) if you think you might be able to confirm whether or not the exhaust I received on the bike is the correct exhaust.
 
nice choice getting the shocks serviced. sometimes its easy to take for granted these came factory with ohlins...i fantasize about getting them for my streetbike, about 1100-1300 for a pair! so its smart money getting them serviced
 
Hey folks, if anyone has WRX envy, while I was doing some random searching for parts, I came across someone in McClure, OH, who is wanting to trade a 400 WRX project bike for parts for his dad's 82 WR 430.

I have never used the site before, so I cannot speak to how you reply to the thread. Just sharing in case a WRX enthusiast out there has the 82 WR 430 parts/expertise and wants to try to connect with this guy:

**UPDATE**FYI, I've been trying to find a way to post to the forum and there's no readily apparent way. Also, when I pull it up on my phone, my virus protection stops me, so the site may just be click bait for a fishing operation**

http://www.worldmotorcycletoday.com/group/jvvjnlxmxvzsxsi-nmipizllnnpjnxl.html
 
another clown parting a bike. why wont he just sell the thing?
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he wants to trade it for parts for his dads 82 430, or part it to trade for parts for his dads bike..claims he has all the parts for this, so just put it together and sell it! then buy crap for other bike! sounds like a PIA to deal with. hes in ohio so hes only a state away but i already have parts for this thing..uugghh. cant save em all
 
justintendo said:
another clown parting a bike. why wont he just sell the thing?
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He *claims* not to want to part it out if you look at the comments, and says that the dad's bike runs well and he'd like 'engine parts' plus a 'nice pipe'. I actually have a pipe that likely matches his dad's bike and is in decent condition (needs paint and could use a couple of dents pushed/pulled, but overall pretty good considering the age).
**UPDATED**Important, I'm starting to receive inquiries on the pipe, so if you reach out to this guy, touch base with me first to confirm I have not sold it**
 

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the air cooled pipe you have looks pretty good, certainly serviceable. i need another rolling chassis like a freaking hole in the head. i think ill have to pass on that one.
 
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