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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Binx Is Ready To Resume His Restoration Project - Has Many Questions

Binx

Binx

Husqvarna
AA Class
1. How do people clean the pipe/muffler? Mine is very rusty. Can wire-wheel most of it but how do I get rid of the rust beneath the heat shield?

2. What do I use to replace the old, and oil-soaked, muffler packing?

3. What paint (rattle can) should I use to paint the muffler? Black no doubt. But black what? Satin? Flat?

4. What paint should I use for the engine cases? Read somewhere that a Black Gloss was recommended followed by a light rub down w/ a 3M Scotchbrite pad to give it the real-deal look.

It won't be long and I'll be sharing pics and progress reports. For now, tell me what kinda paint i should buy.
 
1. can you slip emery paper strip in there? heat it up to red hot with an oxy..will convert rust.
2. new non oil soaked muffler packing. use either fiberglass muffler packing or steel wool.
3. there are several heat proof paints available in the can and you can use a flat black then run a topcoat of satin black for that factory look.
4. I used a satin black etch primer on my cases, still look ok
 
Max R - good to know that you're still monitoring the Vintage Restoration forum. I'm inspired by your results. I was ready to resume my 175 project but then my wife derailed it - again. Now I'm focused on rebuilding our deck and the 175 restoration got pushed again to the back burner. Should be finished with deck in two weeks and then I'll pick up with the 175 where I left off.

Some quick questions for you:
1. What paint did you use to repaint your muffler?
2. Did you sandblast your muffler per Visiteur1948 recommendation?
3. What paint did you use for your engine cases?
 
Binx said:
Max R - good to know that you're still monitoring the Vintage Restoration forum. I'm inspired by your results. I was ready to resume my 175 project but then my wife derailed it - again. Now I'm focused on rebuilding our deck and the 175 restoration got pushed again to the back burner. Should be finished with deck in two weeks and then I'll pick up with the 175 where I left off.

Some quick questions for you:
1. What paint did you use to repaint your muffler?
2. Did you sandblast your muffler per Visiteur1948 recommendation?
3. What paint did you use for your engine cases?
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Binx:

I used Rustoleum high heat engine paint for both the exhaust and engine cases. I did not sandblast the exhaust, I used a small wire wheel and air drill to clean it up. It wasn't too badly rusted ... looked worse than it really was. My original Husky's paint wore off fairly quickly from the engine side covers and exhaust, so I wasn't looking for a paint job to last forever. I realized that I would ride this bike so I didn't want a perfect paint job I'd be scared to get dirty or scratched. BUT I still worry about getting it dirty or scratched anyway .... but I do enjoy it AND the looks I get when hauling it around. I've had several people come up and comment about how nice it looks when parked somewhere. Keep at it .. I know about priorities when doing restorations, so I've been where you are many times... Good Luck !
 
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