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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Barn Find 1980 Wr390

Esq'z Me

Esq'z Me

Husqvarna
Recently widowed lady opened her garage to me last week to help decide what to do with her deceased husband's motorcycles and stuff. He was an avid Enduro rider in the SouthEast US, and passed away unexpectedly 5 years ago.
Amongst the bikes were a 1971 Yamaha 650 chopper (old school hard tail), 1973 RD350, 1974 Yamaha TY250, 1978 XS650SF, 2015 Husky 300TE (which he bought just months before he passed away),
and THIS 1980 (I think) Husky 390WR.
Has a NOS rear fender (never installed-no taillight), extra gas tank, and the original owner's manual and Husqvarna MX Training Guide booklet!!IMG_3889.jpgIMG_3892.jpgIMG_3891.jpgIMG_3894.jpg

Anyway, I am trying to help her empty the garage. I wanted to, first, confirm this is a 1980 and second get an idea of parts availability and what to look for in restoration.
Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
 
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husqvarna-parts said:
Rear fender is not the correct one, rear fender is for the 1975-79 models
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Yes I know...but it will work since the original fender is not to be found.
Carb clean and fresh fuel and she runs !!!
Needs a lot of TLC.
Here's a photo of the part number sticker on the underside of the fender. "Made in England" !!
Can't really make out the numbers on the photo, unfortunately
 
I have the Correct Rear fenders in stock, why would you want to put an incorrect fender on your bike? The 1980 frame is not made for that fender.
 
husqvarna-parts said:
I have the Correct Rear fenders in stock, why would you want to put an incorrect fender on your bike? The 1980 frame is not made for that fender.
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Well...it came with the bike...and the bike now belongs to another.
I was simply helping the widow clean out her husbands stuff.
I'll tell the new owner to join the forum. Thanks for the input.
Do you have a web site I should direct him to? I know he is looking for some other bits as well...he has a bunch of bikes, including other Huskys
 
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