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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Project built Husky390auto

Kendric younger

Kendric younger

Husqvarna
B Class
Strated with a Husky 390auto motor in bits.But really liked the 1982 CR250 styling so how hard could it be to fit the motor in a frame? Well scratch built frame to fit 1978 motor as they are longer ,ordered tank,then Credit card got frauded so ended making an english wheel to make a tank.Ordered DC plastics (Very nice) and extreme twin shocks,found an old 1987 WR husky rear wheel and swing arm that should work.Check out progress in the coming months .
Required coil for ignition,Slided plus needle for 38mm round slide carb. Drum brake for the front with real stopping power (any ideas)
 

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You have some very good fabrication skills! Nice work. If you had an 82 frame that 390 auto motor would bolt right into it with the correct front mounts. For the front drum brake with good stopping power you can use the dual leading shoe brake from the 83-84 Huskys.

Marty
 
motomwo said:
You have some very good fabrication skills! Nice work. If you had an 82 frame that 390 auto motor would bolt right into it with the correct front mounts. For the front drum brake with good stopping power you can use the dual leading shoe brake from the 83-84 Huskys.

Marty
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I was lucky to even find a old air cooled auto motor in NZ other wise yes that would have been an easy option. Ill look for a 83-84 drum set up
 
Impressive craftsmanship. I've been in awe of folks on TV fabricating bike parts, you are right up there with the pros. Can't wait to see what else you create with this project. :popcorn:
 
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