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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

new husky boy

W

wilson

Husqvarna
B Class
hi guys i hope this forum and its members will be able to help me with my ongoing rebuild of a 1971 250 8 speed as we have very little info in good old england.
first question is about pistons do the early models have a piston with an intake slot cut in or are they solid,where do you guys get your pistons from?
thanks for your help

Ian
 
Ian:
Glad to have you on board, there is a wealth of knowledge here in the vintage forum. I'm sure that there are people that can help you out.:cheers:
 
Anyone have information?

Is the 1971 8 speed Husky Boy a small bike for kids?


EDIT - did he mean he was new to Husqvarna bikes?
 
Coffee;39136 said:
Anyone have information?

Is the 1971 8 speed Husky Boy a small bike for kids?


EDIT - did he mean he was new to Husqvarna bikes?
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Yeah I'm pretty sure that was the meaning.
 
wilson;37581 said:
hi guys i hope this forum and its members will be able to help me with my ongoing rebuild of a 1971 250 8 speed as we have very little info in good old england.
first question is about pistons do the early models have a piston with an intake slot cut in or are they solid,where do you guys get your pistons from?
thanks for your help

Ian
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Piston porting didn't start until they began adding reed valves, there were a pew companies that made retrofit reed valves for the early Huskies, GEM is one of them. Once the reed valve is installed you had to mill slots in the piston to take advantage of the reeds. They gave the smaller bikes a much wider power band.:thumbsup:
 
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