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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My '81 430 CR Project

Rossik

Rossik

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just started work on a new project I picked up recently, which turns out to be 2 bikes, one of which will get restored to running/riding condition, as original as possible, and the other will be sold to cover the costs of the keeper.
I've decided to not doing a complete showroom resto this time, that was what my 500 auto turned into and while I totally loved the process and especially the outcone (see my other thread on that here), it became a money pit and I had to unexpectedly sell it due to an overseas move, and I lost big time on it.
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And as always, now the fun begins in finding the bits that I need. Since our relocation to the US, my wife started a vlog mostly for the benefit of our family back in Australia, but I'll post the links related to episodes of this project for you guys to follow.

This first one is straight after I picked them up:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFDWF5UXMmk&t=207s


And this is Part 1 of the starting the work:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF1v3S_g4BM


And just in case you have lots of spares lying around, I'm currently looking for a kickstart lever (one of the bent ones, same as pictured above if possible) as well as gas tank rubbers, the crescent ones that sit on the frame.......lots of people have them listed but not in stock...........thanks in advance guys !!!
 
And just in case you have lots of spares lying around, I'm currently looking for a kickstart lever (one of the bent ones, same as pictured above if possible) as well as gas tank rubbers, the crescent ones that sit on the frame.......lots of people have them listed but not in stock...........thanks in advance guys !!![/quote]

Actually the later model ones, off the 84-90's are a better design, not as skinny, spines are the same, i'm pretty sure i've got an extra.


Nice Find :thumbsup: , I love me 82 430CR :D
 
ruwfo said:
And just in case you have lots of spares lying around, I'm currently looking for a kickstart lever (one of the bent ones, same as pictured above if possible) as well as gas tank rubbers, the crescent ones that sit on the frame.......lots of people have them listed but not in stock...........thanks in advance guys !!!
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Actually the later model ones, off the 84-90's are a better design, not as skinny, spines are the same, i'm pretty sure i've got an extra.


Nice Find :thumbsup: , I love me 82 430CR :D[/quote]

Oh man, that would be awesome if you do......

I've seen the straighter ones on similar rebuilds but it looked to me like the pedal part of the kicker touches the fins on the head ?
 
Great videos !!! Most likely the tape was put on to protect the tank's finish so you certainly lucked out there.
 
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