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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky? NO! Moto Villa

All depends on where and how long something sits. I lost a 77 Honda CB750 I got cheap and was going to freshen it up for the spring. It sat under my upper porch at my old house and found the cylinders rusted up from condensation over the winter. So after that anything with an exposed engine get stored in garage or barn now.
 
Right...problem Solvered... the "enriching" (choke) cable was pushing out of the lawn mower throttle fitting and not achieving full actuation...(that was hard to type after 4 mountain goats) once i figured this she lit up like a honda 110.
 
motor cases and brake plate back from the blasters and a heap of shiny plated bolts and bits and pieces...start on reassembly of the engine. question...should i paint teh cases before taking it to mr mc Hanic or wait till she is in 1 piece for a paint job?? ill get some piccs soon. the forks have an allooominum socket on the bottom of the sliders and it dont want to budge and its too soft to put a stilsons on it...any suggestions how i get it off? pics up shortly
 
surprize said:
should i paint the cases before taking it to mr mc Hanic or wait till she is in 1 piece for a paint job??
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Ask mr mc Hanic how he likes to work on stuff. Painted or not.
Or do what you like. :cool:
I like to paint the individual pieces so you can see the gaskets and places that are clean like I found them.
Nice paint, don't scratch it up like I usually do!:rolleyes:
It's paint and will not last forever..I've seen your videos!!:cheers:
 
as a piece of closure, here is the almost finished product...i have to fit the tank decals, seat stencil which i have but will get a professional to paint it. Bike goes like a scalded cat and needs the next down needle to smooth it out but it is what it is..
 

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just dropped a few piccys of the late Rick Bingles Moto Villa 350, a running rider survivor. very cool bike!
 
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