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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Forum newbie with wr400 saying hello

Dauer

Dauer

Husqvarna
AA Class
Simply wanted to introduce myself to all the guys and girls here. I acquired a basket case of a husqvarna this past july and have been lurking since. It's a '84 or '85 WR 400, liquid-cooled, twin-shock, drum brake version. Scored it locally of Craigslist from a young guy who got it from a neighbor, he was a bit optimistic with his asking price and the description, however it was 95% and running with what he claimed was a new topend (i have my doubts). She's pretty rough and in need of much love but boy does she scream! She does have the dreaded milkshake in the gearbox and a bent piece of steel bar for a kickstart but what she lacks in finesse she makes up for in charm. Wasn't really looking for a project and am still unsure if it's a task I want to under take but I'm very keen on vintage dirtbikes and may have a go of it after all. I'm sure I will relying heavily on this forum to see me through, thank you in advance.View attachment 32635 View attachment 32636 View attachment 32637 View attachment 32638
 
ive got one, great bike..... you can get new clutch covers and water pump parts which solve the milk shake and the rest is available from phil at huskvarnaparts.com

there are some pics from my rebuild in the restoration section

ist thing to do is down load the parts manual from phils web site, strip it down and go for it....enjoy
 
Welcome to the vintage club!
A word of caution... restoring old Husky's becomes an obsession and will take over your life. Not only that, they will reproduce in your garage and before you know it, you have 9 of them.
I'm JC and I'm a Huskyholic.....
:cheers:
 
Suprize: appreciate the advice, I actually read your restoration thread and was very impressed. It also gave me hope towards the daunting task ahead of me.

Endurokids: Appreciate the warning, I was afraid you'd say that. I can see how an innocent enough hobby can transform into an unhealthy obsession very quickly. Cheers.
 
riding them helps beat the collection addiction....you have too much fun to have time to get more....;)
 
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