• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I'm working on it as of this am. I have a few cables with Oilers and if you are careful you can bend the staple, Remove them and install them on another cable. You can make them functional or for just looks.

I have done the same thing with re using the oilers on new cables. Also I have painted new black cable housings gray with good results. The good news for the 82.5 500 is Husky started using black cables.

Marty
 
I have done the same thing with re using the oilers on new cables. Also I have painted new black cable housings gray with good results. The good news for the 82.5 500 is Husky started using black cables.

Marty


Yes Black cables, but i also think alot of bikes came with a mix of Terry cables from Husky Products, without oilers, after re-looking at brochure pictures & this 1980 Husky Line catalog page, for throttle cables (lower right pic).

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I have done the same thing with re using the oilers on new cables. Also I have painted new black cable housings gray with good results. The good news for the 82.5 500 is Husky started using black cables.

Marty

That's good to know. I'm gonna look because I set the old cables in a box. I'm pretty sure they were gray.
 
Yes Black cables, but i also think alot of bikes came with a mix of Terry cables from Husky Products, without oilers, after re-looking at brochure pictures & this 1980 Husky Line catalog page, for throttle cables (lower right pic).

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I bought those pants back in day and I also had a pair of dark wine red leathers with blue stripe down the sides. Leathers were hot.
 
Had not been here in a long time. Revisiting this post and seeing how the bikes have come together makes me so happy. Not being someone who is particularly interested in anything stock I especially love the level of detail and unique custom touches on your builds. Exquisite work!
 
I bought those pants back in day and I also had a pair of dark wine red leathers with blue stripe down the sides. Leathers were hot.
Similar era pic. George and team. I copied a pic of George doing the peristyle jump at the LA Coliseum in those red boots but can’t find it right now.
 

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Had not been here in a long time. Revisiting this post and seeing how the bikes have come together makes me so happy. Not being someone who is particularly interested in anything stock I especially love the level of detail and unique custom touches on your builds. Exquisite work!

Thanx Motojason!

Got lil worried there! Came on site yesterday and read the bad news. Breath of fresh air to see Cafe Husky back up today. Thanx to Dirtdame and Woodschick!


I've been busy as usual and had to put a lawn tractor restoration in there this spring.

500 is way behind and I have most of the parts.
 
FYI,

Been screwing around with my carb mods and jetting on my 83 CR 250.

She’s dialed in now and likes to rip and wheelie!

Plus no mid range to upper rpm hit! Pulls very nice on bottom with torque and rips to top end.

Going to roll same settings over to Fox CR 250. It should wake that bike up as well versus stock.

Been non stop this year and hope I can get some time later this year to finish the last 3 bikes. The 500, 430 and 125.
 

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Sweet work there Darin. I really like the AC 80s bikes , but they are soooooo tall. I'll have to stick with the early 70s to be able to flat foot them. I'm no racer but love to ride so I gotta be able to get a foot down without jumping off the bike or planning the stop with a a rock or tree !! Chris
 
Sweet work there Darin. I really like the AC 80s bikes , but they are soooooo tall. I'll have to stick with the early 70s to be able to flat foot them. I'm no racer but love to ride so I gotta be able to get a foot down without jumping off the bike or planning the stop with a a rock or tree !! Chris


Thanx Chris!

Yeah, sometimes I forget how tall they are when i throw a leg over them.

When I get time......

I might do a step by step thread so you guys can get some power out of these carbs. It's all about more air and more fuel across power band.
 
Happy 4th!

How about 4 for the 4th!
 

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All been ridden today. All have my carb mods and new jetting. The Maico had to go back to old needle cause it doesn’t like it. It makes it load up on bottom end. Maico has rest of mods inside.

I’m impressed how well the 3 Husky’s are performing now. The 250’s are a shade under the Maico in power. The 390 would definitely hang easy with a 430. I might put some solder on 250 pistons and send them out to get the squish dialed.
 

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