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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Details, Details, Details - Horn & Rear Brake Light Switch

schimmelaw

schimmelaw

Husqvarna
AA Class
81' 430XC street-legal motard conversion in progress.

Photo 1: Parts. Yamaha horn for an XT225. Loud and obnoxious - I know from personal experience. Wife has one on her bike and I used one on a prior project. My state inspection guy is going to be satisfied. Generic/universal brake light switch from Parts Unlimited. Stock spring was replaced w/ a shorter one and rubber sleeved. (See photos 3 & 4). 3/4" X 1/8" aluminum stock for brackets.

Photo 2: Mounting brackets made up. Both will be powdered - horn black and brake light switch frame silver.

Photos 3 & 4: Brake light switch mounted up. Will be wired up post frame powdering. Cheap. Simple. Boot clearance. Out of the way.

Photo 5: Horn mounted on the top triple clamp behind the number plate/headlight. Again, wiring post powder.
 

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You people who notice stuff like that in photos are scary.

Are those Husky Products pegs? What brand is the sprocket? I like the gold.
 
Leftcoast - gotcha - preliminary mockup.

Picklito - pegs are from Phillip in Arizona. Advertised/sold as a reproduction of the "Husky Products" peg. Their construction surpasses the stockers by leaps and bounds. Very beefy. Will have a thread on them once I address some other peg related issues.

Counter sprocket is something I had in an old old old stash of Husky parts. Origin unknown.

Rick
 
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