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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Help identifying these shocks

That's just what I was thinking , thank you . Any specific model on the WP and Reiner ? I need to rebuild these and will start looking for parts soon .
 
Nice stash...that's a good bud you have..
if your not going to do your own rebuild I would recommend Drew Smith at WER in NJ
bob
 
Yes he is , it works both ways . These are his shocks getting them ready for use on projects . These are just a few , I have about 2 tubs worth of shocks to go through as I get the time . All are for his Maico collection . Do to his business he just doesn't have the time to do this so I'm helping him out . Every time I visit him I drop off whatever projects have been completed and bring something else home as I have the room . This winter I only have 4 of his bikes at my house . 1 Husky and 3 Maico's . A 420 auto Husky , an 85 Maico 250 which I'm planning on bringing back this spring and then there are the 2 1981 Maico 250's with the round back frames that will take longer to complete . Slowly but surely I'm getting through them , a good freshening up and sorting thru any issues that are found . I was just trying to remember how many of his Maico's I've brought back to Ct and realized I've lost count , must be CRS ! I'm just hoping both my friend and I will be around to see everyone of these bikes run and maybe video all of them running . He jokes with me that we should get them all out on his track at one time just to have a Moto of nothing but Maico's . If we ever did that I would definitely have to take out my 81 430 just to be the oddball .
 
I was thinking both single shocks are WP4681’s. They started in the 80’s with red reservoirs and matching aluminum knobs, and changed to grey and black plastic around 91.
 
Ok so on the red reservoir shock the stamping is m 5 86 , date of manufacture maybe ? The grey one is the one I really wasn't sure about , the only stamping I found so far is ma500 b . So the ma could be for Maico . The 500 model of Maico it came off of ? That grey shock is the only one like it that he has that's why I'm trying to I'd this one ? Thanks .
 
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