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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

not husky...Moto Villa!!

Oops, lost the front wheel pic?? also the NOS airfilter element:rolleyes: and the headlight...lot happening inside what I thought was a tiny light assembly.. there is a husky like shroud with a numberplate that goes over that 1950's light20170429_205957.jpg20170429_131832.jpg20170429_204333.jpg20170429_204650.jpg
 
the rear end and that ^&*&^%$ brake light switch..fiddly little 8mm bolts20170429_215320.jpg20170429_215358.jpg20170429_215435.jpg20170429_221806.jpg recessed into the back of the airbox and the lock nuts fought every turn on bolts that were too long grrrr
Sad looking Corte and Cosso shocker there....

so pretty much a bare frame now...stay tuned
 
the handlebars look almost as good as that filter! looks like its in pretty decent shape tho, considering these are rare.
 
the old Steve Cramer Products bars...always buy them somewhere on a weekend....after you bent yours in the first 10 mins of a big ride..

they are too big and the clamps and lever perches were all stuck on tight! considering its sat outside for 10 + years its in good condition. I have some new bits for it so will come up nice..
 
More progress pics! This is a great project, I know its not a Husky but still worthy of a build post regardless.
 
no..its in the container again...got to clean the husky airfilter, fix the broken chain tensioner, make a new lower chain roller and get the taillight working....mv will be otbb for a while:(
 
suprize said:
no..its in the container again...got to clean the husky airfilter, fix the broken chain tensioner, make a new lower chain roller and get the taillight working....mv will be otbb for a while:(
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If you didn't ride so fast you wouldn't break those bits.......:cheers:
 
landscaping close to completion, although the front end loader has "icecream on its lips" :mad: but pretty much the back fence to do and then some spare time!!:banana:
 
Got to attack the forks the other nite, they came apart nicely considering they were pretty corroded. not too much h2o in the sliders tc.

have planned to get them to a hard chrome who specializes in muddaboik forks.

disassembly...

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Both damper rod bolts came out nicely and the rest of the disassembly was pretty easy. the corrosion around the top of the sliders wire brushed off pretty easily and the circlips over the forks also removed nicely.20170628_181506.jpg20170628_181848.jpg20170628_182204.jpg
 
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