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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Engine build ??'s 390 250

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giftshopduane

Husqvarna
B Class
Here goes, bear with me I'm learning a lot about my bike. I picked up a 79 390cr, with supposedly a smoked gearbox.. inlcuded was 2 250 or parts bikes, with at least one tight bottom end. SO here's what I'm asking. The 390 has a nice newer pist/cyl, 2nd over. and one of the 250's has tight bottom end and reasonable top.. since I am going to disassemble the 390 (PO broke the flywheel shaft "left hand thread") should I reseal and replace any offending parts out of one of the 250's or throw the 390 top on the 250 bottom and just have fun, or rebuild the 250 or, or..... throw the 250 top on a rebuilt cr gearbox and make a 250cr? besides the obvious engine size differences, how did the 250 compare to 390's as far as rideability?

Also the 390 flywheel is substantially larger then the 250's and the counter weights on the 390's crank are semi elliptical and the 250's are full "disks", why.

and... I have a set of original Ohlins remotes, and a set of Koni remotes (off an RM?) should I rebuild either of these or find a good set of used shocks? What kind should I look for? With the Koni's I have to stand on my toes and barely touch the ground, I am 6ft with a 30" inseam, I find this kind of uncomfortable. I just plan on trail riding and flip flopping with my other bikes.. I got all this for a case of Heineken, not bad..... I am really won over by this bike..

thanks
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Thanks... truth be told I grabbed whatever case i could find, I couldn't get there fast enough to make the trade. He really just wanted it to go to a good home. I am always excited about a new bike.. when I first saw a picture of it the non traditional styling didn't grab my eye, now that I have it and have been learning more and living with it in my shop I think its one of the coolest bikes I've seen, I am just itching to ride it.... I am even considering selling the XL500 to fund a resto.....

thanks, I have been leaning towards the 390, I know its tight, just going to reseal and inspect the gearbox, replace what needs it...

i've always been a fan of Huskies, just never owned one, now I have one I'm finding its the first to really fascinate me.
 
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