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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Frankenstein Bike.

Lorden

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi all, I bought a Frankenstein bike where the part seems to come from everywhere..

I wonder if someone could help me identify what the original parts and colours should look like.

It's a wr250 from 1978 which is registered for one passanger and for the road. That's the main reason I bought it.

What I found out so far is:

1. The tank in aluminium is from 1983 or was this big tank available at that time? What would the original colour be? Colour code?
2. Saddle is from a Yamaha. Already searching for a new one.
3. Fender back seems to be some old UFO or aftermarket fender.
4. Frame should be silver I think. If some one has the color code please let me know. Don't think they had white colour 1978?
5. Rear shocks absorbers are some Italian stuff Corte Cosso I think it should be girling?
6. Headlight is crap. Looking for new one with the grid infront. Also the rubber mountings is missing.
7. Kickstarter and it's shaft is beyond repair. Already in discussion with husqvarna classic in Sweden buying a new one even if it is expensive I guess that is my only option?
8. Transmission cover has a small hole because of the bad Kickstarter. Thinking of having it welded but I'm unsure of what material should be added. If some one knows what to use please let me know. I suspect there's a lot magnesium in the cover?
9. Cover at the front sprocket is missing. Husqvarna classic has repo in carbon fibre. Original would be nicer of course.

My first goal.is to have it running and then I will buy a parts when it shows up for a reasonable price. I have realized that this is probably a restoration project for a very long time if I shouldnt start sell parts of myself to finance it.

So if anyone has any information how this bike should look please let me know. Also interested in owner's guide in a single pdf. Partlist I have and a link to the ownera manual online.

Sorry for the massive amount of questions

Cheer
Henrik
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