• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Moms 450 Wr

B

BrewCityMKE

Husqvarna
Hello everyone,
I recently acquired my moms 1972 (I believe) 450wr. She rode it when she was in her 20’s. She passed away earlier this year. I’m hoping to restore it, and keep it in the family for a long time. It sat under a barn overhang for probably 20 years, so it’s in rough shape. I don’t know a whole lot about these bikes, but I’m very mechanical inclined, and have a small engine repair business. So mostly I will need advice specific to the vintage husky’s. Is there a good source to get my hands on a shop manual? From what I’ve gathered it seems like there’s this quite a few parts available on eBay. Thanks in advance, Jake
 

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Sorry to hear about your Mom. But happy to see you getting the bike back to running. Your Mom Must have been quite a Lady to start a 72 450!!! I still find the 450 to be a rather de-constructor to the knee and ankle!! Hope you got a pic with her and the bike, that would be Awesome! Chris
 
Welcome to CafeHusky. That is a great project and you'll find good help here. Your skill set will get you through the project, pretty simple and straight forward machines. There is a number stamped on the frame near the steering head, a 1972 will start with MJ####. Sorry about the loss of your mom, the connection to her makes the bike invaluable to you. My 1970 400 was bought new by my dad... the one bike that I will never sell.
Good luck,
Steve
 
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