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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Frame strengthening exercise?

Just scored some 40mm forks off of eBay... we'll see how they look in person. Next, the search continues for those triple clamps!
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Brad-in-STL said:
Wow... can you check the ID on those? I'm guessing without forks in them, it would be just a hair over 40mm that I need...?
Let me know Jim!

Thanks,
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They'll fit, 1 difference is the handlebar mounts, the bars sit more straight up then the early 40mm triple clamps.

my 80 390 has 1981 forks.
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Here's a 87 husky triple clamp from ebay, see how the bar mounts have no pull back.

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So I stepped up and invested in some period correct shocks, not necessarily model correct shocks. See below:

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So here's my question - On the right side I can see how the reservoir is pretty easy to swing up and mount on the frame just ahead of the airbox, but is the left side reservoir mounted the same way? With the kickstarter on that side space is at a premium. Let me know what you think, or better yet post some pics of the left side reservoir mounting with this style of shocks.

TIA,
Brad-in-STL
 
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So here's my first mock up at reservoir mounting on my WR:

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Right shock is straight forward, with easy access to the airbox, but on the left side I'm running pretty close to the pipe which could get warm. Haven't checked for seat clearance yet either...
 
From pictures that i found the right side shock resevoir goes to the rear and the left side (kick starter side ) goes forward . Hva-factory has a 1980 parts book manual on thier website and it is showing the resevoir mount forward on the left . It also shows the “dog leg” kickstarter and a side panel on the left . On the pictures that i found it looks like the hose may be covered by the side panel and using the dog leg kickstarter should keep your foot away from the hose while starting . Good luck .
 
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