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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Refurbing Piggybacks

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adam6402

Husqvarna
AA Class
Had these rebuilt about 2 years ago, just now getting around to making them look a little refreshed on the outside. I know you can buy original paint for about $25 bucks a can, so thought I would try this for $6, what do you guys think? The paint is a Rustoleum primer/paint in one called Aged Copper.
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Hard to tell the color match, with the other sections taped off, maybe this picture of a original set for a comparison will help .

Husky John
 

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There was a thread several month ago about repainting Ohlins and several paint codes were discussed. There are specific codes that match the color perfectly but you may not find it in rattlecans.
 
A few years ago I had John LeFevre of Vintage Husky restore a few parts on my 82 430 WR. Here's the Ohlins shocks he restored.
Body and spring are powder coated and color matched to the stock color.
Dave
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everfree said:
A few years ago I had John LeFevre of Vintage Husky restore a few parts on my 82 430 WR. Here's the Ohlins shocks he restored.
Body and spring are powder coated and color matched to the stock color.
Dave

They look really nice! Have you put much mileage on them since? I'm going to go with raw aluminum on top, cans will remain gold, although need to get some new decals. When I had them rebuilt, I think the guy that did it left one of the shock bodies and cans in the solvent tank way too long and totally destroyed one of the decals, the other one came out good enough. Looks like you have the pre-'82 decals on yours.
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Not much mileage on them. Too many other Husky's to ride.
Ohlins decals are available, not sure about the year of my decals, they should be 82 but maybe not.
When I first got the bike, it was strange looking. Somebody had put a blue plastic tank and fenders on it and painted the shocks blue. You couldn't tell it was a Husky. Here's the bike now.
Dave

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everfree said:
Not much mileage on them. Too many other Husky's to ride.
Ohlins decals are available, not sure about the year of my decals, they should be 82 but maybe not.
When I first got the bike, it was strange looking. Somebody had put a blue plastic tank and fenders on it and painted the shocks blue. You couldn't tell it was a Husky. Here's the bike now.
Dave

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Well, that is an '81 250 WR not an '82 430. Still a nice bike though and would explain the decals.
 
Just checked the frame and case numbers, it is a 82. but you're right it is a 250.
Thanks for reminding me though, it's been awhile since I looked this bike over. Time to fire it up and ride it.
Dave
 
I was just saying based on the tank color, but I fogot the WR's were different than the XC's, I had black in my head and was thinking '81 but I think the '81 WR's had blue tanks.
 
adam6402 said:
I was just saying based on the tank color, but I fogot the WR's were different than the XC's, I had black in my head and was thinking '81 but I think the '81 WR's had blue tanks.
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I had to find a tank, luckily I found a like-new tank from an 81 420 Automatic. CR tank was red, WR was blue, XC was black, Auto was maroon. I like the maroon color best.
I think in 82, the heads were are all unpainted.
 
I don't think the color / model mattered much, people probably swapped tanks around.
I forgot the famous 82.5 500 CR had a silver tank. Then in 1983, the last of the metal tanks, all tanks were white.
 
I think next time I have the shocks apart I will have them powder coated, dont imagine the rattle can paint will hold up well, but I like the look, although I need to clean up a little overspray on the aluminum heads
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Rattle can is fine. A good rattle can job can look good. Keeps the rust off anyway.
As long as the seals are good, install the shocks, and ride the bike!
Dave
 
everfree said:
Rattle can is fine. A good rattle can job can look good. Keeps the rust off anyway.
As long as the seals are good, install the shocks, and ride the bike!
Dave
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Actually the only reason I ended up cleaning them up was because I wanted to go riding a couple of weekends ago and was changing the spring pre-load and noticed that one of the shocks no longer had a nitrogen charge. Then decided to get the spring pre-load adusters from husqvarna-parts.com along with additional main jets as not licking the throttle response in this cooler weather, so while waiting for that stuff decided to do a little cosmetics. Time is passing by too quickly, always something interuppting my plans to ride, hope to get out to some new places during time off over Christmas.
 
1982 250's CR= Red WR= Blue XC= Black

1982 430's CR= Maroon WR= Blue ( I think? maybe Black) XC= Black

The trim around the polished section was White on 81's, and Gold on 82's. The pictured tank above was corect for a 1982 430 CR. However back when these bikes were built nobody cared, and any and all combinations were probably on dealer floors.

The Spray can sold by Husqvarna Parts .com works well for the Ohins color.
 
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