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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Magnificent 7

dartyppyt said:
After cooled, I used my air grinders to cut excess off sides and chamfered both front and rear parts of lining (Like stock). Then cleaned up lining with 40 grit sand paper.
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Great Job. I may try this for my old Triumph which seems to be needing two feet to stop the darn thing.
Bill
 
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Great Job. I may try this for my old Triumph which seems to be needing two feet to stop the darn thing.
Bill​
 " I can totally relate to this! 1965 Norton 750 ....1/4 mile lead time PLUS the 2 feet!!:cheers:
 
Friend of Mine's 78 that I did engine for.

Had to use two pipes to make one then blued it.

Other than a leaky Karkoma (That I had to rebuild) She fired 3rd kick.

Other than getting Oval Number plates mounted and set of chain and sprockets, this puppy is a done deal.

Moto X Fox Husky frame is going to Powder coaters!


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Bill502 said:
What paint did you use on the rims?Mine are in need of a paint job or getting Anadizing.
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We never touched the rims since paint was fairly decent on them. Just elbow grease.

I usually do all mine the anodized route in antique gold.

Send rims to anodizer so he can strip rims and send back.

Then sand and polish them.

Send back to anodizer and they come out like new.

On the tube side, I just bead blast area, then use soft wire wheel on a stand. You never see it anyways.
 
Bill,

Another option might be?

Use a coating on rims from KG Coatings (Gunkote).

There are two colors Dull Brass or Pale Gold that might match up. I have Bright Brass in my inventory and would think it is too bright. Its the gold im spraying over the black on my cases.

You might have to run a silver base under them? They could answer that.

Basically, you just bead blast rims. Clean with acetone, Spray with Gunkote and bake @ 325 degrees for an hour. Stuff is bullet proof! It's all I use from now. Fuel proof, chip proof, etc....... Looks expensive but it goes a long way. I use an air brush from Harbor Freight to spray it on. I have a set of rims that are polished that I am going to add Gold and Black to. Rims are going on 125 some day.
 
Like to get this puppy fired by Monday!

Going back together since I did final welding to modify the frame for Fox Shox and sent it to powder coater.

Darn thing should rip since I ported it, made the snail pipe and still have yet to my carb mods.

More Bling for you DFA!

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Got her fired last night, so just need to button some things up like, raising the front forks up some in triples, getting the rear shocks aired to my weight, packing the silencer, filling the forks, and machining few things.

Anyone have some good jetting specs on the 82 CR 250?

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Darin,
Awesome
What's she sound like? :popcorn: , i only seen the Snail pipe on Can-am's.

Did you get any snow yet?

Husky John
 
ruwfo said:
Darin,
Awesome
What's she sound like? :popcorn: , i only seen the Snail pipe on Can-am's.

Did you get any snow yet?

Husky John
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Thanx John and Justice Bikes!

John, Sounds awesome but I had Gary send me jetting info. Lil Blubbery on bottom and previous guy had wrong Idle screw in carb. Plus I have to pack the silencer.

I had two ziploc bags with 250 carb parts in them. One for 83 and one for 82. I cannot find one of the bags. So might of ended in trash can by accident. I do have the carb body, cap, float bowl, etc.... I have needles, slides, jets on there way, so that should clean things up with help of Gary's sheet he sent.

No snow yet! Just that darn friggin wind! Gary was filling me in on some of your projects and racing accomplishments. WAY TO GO! Maybe towards spring I can give you some extra horses help?

Thats why i wanted to build few snail pipes, cause it is a lost art. You are correct...... Can Ams, CZ's, Elsinores, YZ's etc...... Takes me about 25hours total to build one, with bike in front of me.
 
Yes Gary, had a really nice running 250 , he built for our NY state friend Frank. My 83 250CR
always ran sort of blubbery too, til i found the right silencer, it was a jaw dropper when i changed
just that. I'm like how can a silencer clean it up that much :banghead:.

2020 other the the Covid stuff, it was a good year MX Racing for me. Pick up my confidence & along with that my speed, it been along time since, i've really felt like that.

So i've got Gary's juices flowing again (he's words) & the long semi dormant 1980 390CR refresh/rebuild started up last weekend.
 
ruwfo said:
Yes Gary, had a really nice running 250 , he built for our NY state friend Frank. My 83 250CR
always ran sort of blubbery too, til i found the right silencer, it was a jaw dropper when i changed
just that. I'm like how can a silencer clean it up that much :banghead:.

2020 other the the Covid stuff, it was a good year MX Racing for me. Pick up my confidence & along with that my speed, it been along time since, i've really felt like that.

So i've got Gary's juices flowing again (he's words) & the long semi dormant 1980 390CR refresh/rebuild started up last weekend.
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Good Deal! Glad you are doing good race wise. Yeah, Gary is excited that you guys are doing the 390. Prob one of my favorites. Funny how just few pipe changes or silencers can make more performance. I don't know what is up next? Got 4 more to go. It's either the 82.5 500 or my 83 CR 250??????
 
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