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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Question for those in the know - rear number plate mounting brackets

schimmelaw

schimmelaw

Husqvarna
AA Class
Here goes ----- can/will someone post up pictures of the right side rear number plate mounting bracket for the 82'? My 81' 430 has the left number plate mounted to the silencer (and the upper shock mount) and the right hand side is mounted to a very small bracket welded to the frame (and again the upper shock mount). With this mounting system the back of the right side number plate is contacting the shock reservoir and rubbing the anodizing off and the aluminum itself. It seems that the 82's had a larger/longer bracket for the right side number plate mounting which gives more clearance between the shock and the back side of the number plate. I'm trying to increase the distance between the back of the number plate and the shock to reduce/eliminate this contact and wear. I need measurements for the bracket (width, total length, measurements to the "bends" of the bracket and approximate angle of the "bends") and the mounting location on the frame.

Thanks in advance, Rick
 
R u running after market or nos side panels? reason i ask is the remakes are flexier and rub while the originals (if can be found) are stouter and stand off a bit.
 
Leftcoast,
Not nos or the originals - my take-offs are garred upped, the upper shock mount holes worn/tore out and they have been drilled in several places for past mounting.
I ordered a set of plastic from Phillip in AZ for my rebuild. Great components. Sturdy w/ good lines in the manufacturing process. I am very happy w/ them. I have seen the newer models (82's ?) which have a larger bracket to keep the panels from rubbing shock components. I was trying to match those brackets to alleviate the current rubbing issues and just need to get some measurements/pictures.
Rick
 
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