• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Coming together! Actually, I'm further ahead then these pics and its shaping up nicely!

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DeathFromAbove said:
Dang!! How are we mere:oldman: mortals gonna keep up!!
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You better step it up Mr! My goal is to make these bikes look like Factory bikes, from back in day and crank like them :rolleyes: Looks like I’m getting heck of lot more performance out of them.

Got a batch of fast taper needles coming so that will help get the bikes from low to top end quick.
 
This is my Back To The Future Build. Bike is gonna MARTY MCFLY. Might run a harescramble with this one at MID Ohio this year........

Got all brake linings relined, bars on, chain on, grips. I do have nice set of Cycra hand guards but I don't know yet????

Held up not getting parts, but the bike is further along than this pic and is really starting to look bad azz! I was never a fan of all the white Husky used on these back in day.

Also, finished my pipe and blued it with torch and gear oil.

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Blue Cables came in. Still have to connect kill switch, route throttle cable under tank, flush tank out, Put new clutch in, and machine shift shaft for mid case o ring. Almost ready to fire!

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Thank you, I bought a used kick starter shaft off of flea bay, dressed the end so it had a pilot spud on it to stay centered, also that it was sharp on the exposed ends and before slotting the clamp area, broached it on a hydraulic press.
 
Steve-F said:
Thank you, I bought a used kick starter shaft off of flea bay, dressed the end so it had a pilot spud on it to stay centered, also that it was sharp on the exposed ends and before slotting the clamp area, broached it on a hydraulic press.
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Do you heat the kicker part before pressing it in or just press it cold?

I'm always wanting to learn new stuff.

FYI, I been putting some green loctite sleeve adhesive on my fine spline kickers. Have no idea if it helps.......... But only way to get kicker off shaft, is to spread the slot. So would think it helps some?
 
ct cr430, yes, and my boot now clears the foot peg as well as 2 inch extension of leverage that my short arse needs all the help it can get!

dartyppyt, no heat, cutting oil and just press away! Sure to the green loctite, couldn't hurt. Green is for wicking small areas:<)
 
83 looks awesome. we need some side pics of it all together. stellar job Dude ****************************************!
 
Thanx for info Steve! I’ll have to try it.

WRX, Thanx for compliment! I will get you some good overall pics. I did that on purpose since got some custom numbers coming yet and couple more things to get done. I should have it wrapped up this weekend and fired.
 
So, Saturday was my day to get the bike fired. It actually, started second kick. The bike ran like crap and at first thought? Gees, wonder if I have to much STP oil treatment on the parts? I use STP to coat all parts when I build an engine and I know its not gonna be fired for while. Slick stuff but sticks to metal like honey. Then thought? Gees did I leave a paper towel in air box? Nope, gotta be floats sticking open and floading the engine. I bet I had that carb apart ten times****************************************!! Its at an angle, so it has to be leaking gas inside it. Said hell with it and was going up to house for lunch. Then a thought crossed my mind and i went back to my shop. This carb has the idle screw on the brake side. Wonder if I grabbed a slide that has Idle screw on the shifter side? Bingo! I sure did!
Bike fired and ran good with all the stock settings. Here is the vid:

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