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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Estimated values for a 1987 husqvarna wr250 and a 1978 husqvarna cr125

ajcmbrown said:
I didn't modify the skirt length, just made the cutout deeper, I like the idea of a longer skirt keeping things square.
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Hey Tony, I'm about to carry out this mod for my 87 WR250 & have purchased the same piston. What tooling did you use to cut/shape the piston. And has keeping the longer skirt given you any trouble. Thanks Jon
 
jonhicks said:
Hey Tony, I'm about to carry out this mod for my 87 WR250 & have purchased the same piston. What tooling did you use to cut/shape the piston. And has keeping the longer skirt given you any trouble. Thanks Jon
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Hi Jon, the bulk was removed carefully with a grinder, the finishing work was done by hand with a curved metal file.
It has performed faultlessly for over four years and this bike gets more use than any of the others.
 
ajcmbrown said:
Hi Jon, the bulk was removed carefully with a grinder, the finishing work was done by hand with a curved metal file.
It has performed faultlessly for over four years and this bike gets more use than any of the others.
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Thanks Tony! Good to hear, appreciate the quick reply. Hope you have been keeping well. I cooked my 87 WR250 at the recent A3VE, plastic water pump housing got hairline fracture and lost all the coolant, I was totally unaware. Hence the new piston.. Cheers Jon
 
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