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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Is a 1999 WR125 old enough for this section?

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Husqvarna
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Hi, I need a bit of the collective knowledge if possible. I just picked up a near zero hour 1999 WR125, original tires that would still be fine to race on if not for age deterioration.

I'm interested in beefing up the suspension, specifically want to know if later model shocks, like say a 2002 CR250 shock, will bolt in straight up. Forks too, will any later model M-45 fork fit these triples?

I'm about 200 lbs., +45 vet A rider and want to pop around the MX track and maybe a few scrambles on her. I'm thinking a few CR 250 take offs might be enough spring and damping for the time being.

I see plastics are a nightmare! It's lucky mine are mint except fading and bright spots where the previous owner sticker bombed it. I might end up fabbing the 2000 up stuff on, and reading up it doesn't seem to go too smoothly, huh? Anyone done a pictoral on conversion to later body parts?

Thanks and hope this is a good spot to ask!

Jim
 
Another question, do all the 99 Huskys share axle sizes/wheels? The range of those parts common, 99 earlier or later too?

Thanks!
 
The tech limit is 1988. You would get better responses on the modern section. You will find some owners that have modern and vintage bike but still think you will get more responses outside of vintage. We all try to help each other here regardless so please do not interpret this as unwelcome
 
If you are happy with your plastics and you have access to HVLP spray equipment you can paint them any way you like with PPG Deltron or Concept. They are both flexible enough to be used on urethane bumpers. You need an adhesive promoter like Bulldog to make it stick. The Deltron is best if you want multi color and you can also apply new decals before clear coat. Concept is best if you have no need to clear while Deltron requires it to seal the base coat
 
Thanks Jim, I may need to go that route on the rear fender, I hadn't thought of bumper paint, great suggestion.
 
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