• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

CR 250 77 or 78 Q ? S

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Husqvarna
C Class
Hello, i just bought a CR 250 to restore, the Frame number is ML 30260 Can someone enlighten me what year this frame is ? Where do i find the engine No. ? looked for it.... but it was umm night.. and couldnt find it :confused: What is the best manual to buy to ? it needs alot of new parts and many missing ,who is the best for parts for this model and year, Thankyou for any help or info..... Cheers and thanks
 
should be a tag attached to the upper edge of the case,,
a 77 Husky will have a silver air cleaner cover,,78 Huskys had a flat black cover.
77,s had currnut red springed rear shocks..78 Huskys started to use the remote res, Ohlins.
77 Huskys will have silver rims..78 WR and CR,s had gold rims..unless someone swapped them out.
 
It's a 78 frame according to this reference - www.vintagehusky.com/id.htm. The engine id is on a small metal plate attached to the engine case just above the countershaft sprocket. It is sometimes missing due to chain damage on the case. The 78 CR 250s had a 2065 engine.
 
the 78 250CR had dual rate Girling shocks Not Ohlins

Husky John
 

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i just looked at a pic of one of my old 78 390 OR,s it did have the dual rate shocks,
black springs, with a yellow or white top spring, hard to tell from my old pic.
silver rims...chrome bars..
 
OHC,
Curnutts were the standard shock on the OR's in 78 and 79. I assembled more than 75% of them. If you had some different colors on the springs someone changed them before you bought the bike new. Curnutt had the contract to supply shocks during those years. I worked very closely with the Husky offroad team at that time. Ohlins came a little later.
Scott
 
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