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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Post up pictures of your vintage Husqvarna bikes!

Above was my first post, I've been hanging around the cafe for a while now gathering info and enjoying the site.
Thanks for having me.
RJ
 
Hi Guys, have just purchased a 1984 510 TE in pretty original shape
Fired her up today after removing some old varnish from the tank:(

it looks like it has been ridden on the road a bit as its as clean as a whistle in most respects tho I see what looks like "marked parts" from the aussie 4 day. this ties in with the story that 4 te's were brought in for the 84 four day. probably only ran the bikes in completion till the new single shockers arrived and they would have been refitted with the "stuff " and flogged to the public.

it has the 40mm carb, and interestingly enough, it has extra long fork tubes which poke right up past the handlebars... weird. I will wack up some pics
 

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check out the rear axle and chain adjuster nuts, not a mark on themP6140026.JPGP6140036.JPG weird how there is so much over hang of those tubes..is there longer 40 mm tubes? I thought they were all the same length and on the sliders and damper rods varied from TE to TX..
 
whats that front wheel for? its hardly on the ground:D, nice wheelie with shadow alongside

Yeah it will lift i straight up on 1-3 gear.
The gearing is changed to 16/48 and a custom rear 44 sprocket is being manufactured this week.
Higher gearing is not possible without changing the rear wheel to a model without the drumbrake.

The next fix is to mount a Mikuni fuelpump because im having problem with fuel starvation.
Something I didn't thought was possible on a one cylinder bike.
 
look at boring out your fuel tap and the carb fuel inlet through to the needle and seat, when they run on meth, they quite often do this to the fuel system, bigger diameter fuel line as well. may be easier than a fuel pump.....
 
look at boring out your fuel tap and the carb fuel inlet through to the needle and seat, when they run on meth, they quite often do this to the fuel system, bigger diameter fuel line as well. may be easier than a fuel pump.....

This was actually my first idea, but a friend told me that I could use a Vacuum fuelpump from a snowmobile.
They have a low pressure (0,1bar) and a high flow rate 35L/h and cost only 20 bucks.
 
awesome video . you still have the internal rotor ignition on it aye ? def sounds like it

bigger fuel line and filter solved this problem on my 82 cr 500 . it would go lame if i wound out through 2 3 4 . but not do it in one particular gear . guess the old owner never wound it it out . he also told me you couldnt kick start it . soon proved that wrong

on my bike the fuel tap and the spigot on the carb are both 3/8 size . well 3/8 fuel line fitted on them good . make sure ur fuel tap is clear also etc
 
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