• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 to the collection - CR500

Old Geezer

Old Geezer

Husqvarna
A Class
Been a long time since I've posted here, but finally getting around to working on my '83 XC500 (new crank seal plus installing a stock external rotor/stator as opposed to the internal setup that the bike came with). Plus, my bro' just yesterday showed up with his new acquisition - an '85 CR500 that he picked up for $200. Such a deal! We worked into the night last night to tear it apart and see what she needs to make trail worthy. Odds and ends like new carb-to-airbox boot, air filter, rear brake guts and brake lever, totally shot mono shock, and a complete carb tear down and cleaning to get the varnish out. Otherwise, it's got good spark, good compression, the bore and piston looks good, so she should fire up after a little attention and new gas (there was about a cup of old gas floating around in the expansion chamber, and in the crank of course). First things first, light it up, then worry about the rest.
 
Another Husky being brought back from the dead :applause: , good deal & good lucky . Keep us posted on your progress.

Husky John
 
Great find bring those bike to Tieton Wa. for our play days and vintage race's , Ron Nehls , Yakima Wa.
 
Well kids, after a winter of working on my bro's 85' CR500, I finally took it for her maiden voyage this weekend. Sorry, I don't have the 'before' pictures any longer, but you can see how she now looks....plus a pile of toasted stuff we took off. All we've done is replace the rear shock with a used but functional one, rebuilt the swing arm bearings, cleaned and adjusted the clutch, cleaned the carb, changed the oil, put on a non-floating rear brake hub and fabricated a stay-arm and modified everything to work (it had a broken one when we bought it), new seat and air cleaner and side number plates and spark plug. That's it, so far. She lights up and runs strong. Still have yet to put any oil in the forks which I believe are bone dry, but even without I was surprised at how nice the suspension felt...and that was on a dried out deep mud rutted road (the worse kind of riding, IMO). I didn't get radical, as unknown/unfamiliar bikes can surprise the chit outa you (not good when you're alone out in the boonies test driving).
Anyway, she ran strong...and I was surprised that the 4 gears were spaced a bit farther apart than expected. Had to be judicious in 2nd gear to keep the front end down, but beyond that she ripped ass! Might just be a heck of a lot of fun, once we get used to it get comfortable with it's limitations.
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Nice bike old mate I got my 85 500 last Friday night I found it in Illinois USA and sent it all the way to New South Wales Australia it's been a long wate 10/11 mouths but its in the shed now get an aircleaner on satday see how it goes
It has fuel in it sorry GAS smells heaps different to the gas we have down under
I started it on Sunday arvo bit tricky for someone who broke ther FEMA 5mths ago it started up ok but I'm gonna have to work on it haven't had a left kicker since I was 15 (now39)
Hope to race it in the pre 90 try sneekin it in the pre 85 to doin a bit of bush work oops woods ridding with me best mate he has a 82 maico 490
Cheers Mitch
 
cheko7 said:
Nice bike old mate I got my 85 500 last Friday night I found it in Illinois USA and sent it all the way to New South Wales Australia it's been a long wate 10/11 mouths but its in the shed now get an aircleaner on satday see how it goes
It has fuel in it sorry GAS smells heaps different to the gas we have down under
I started it on Sunday arvo bit tricky for someone who broke ther FEMA 5mths ago it started up ok but I'm gonna have to work on it haven't had a left kicker since I was 15 (now39)
Hope to race it in the pre 90 try sneekin it in the pre 85 to doin a bit of bush work oops woods ridding with me best mate he has a 82 maico 490
Cheers Mitch
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Cool Mitch! Next week while I'm taking a bit of a holiday from work, I hope to run this thing through it's paces nice and proper like.
For me, thank God it's a left kicker, since I broke my left foot a couple years ago riding and it doesn't really like much abuse anymore. Old Geezers don't heal like we used to!
Illinois, huh? I moved away from there 15 years ago. That's a long haul to Australia.
 
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