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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

restoring a Up-Tite 87 250 XC...

I am jealous of that husky line-up you've got there. Quite the collection. Maybe jealous is the wrong word.....it's exciting to see what you have going on there. Nice work. Keep the posts & photos coming.
 
Thanks guys. That's all the bikes my garage will hold and there's a '87 430 WR out in the shed!
I've been going through them all, fixing things and doing maintenance. I'd like to get them all in race condition.

It's been fun learning how they work and all the tricks to make them run better. They are all riders, no garage queens here.
Huskys do have a certain provenance, as they say, in their day they were top notch competition bikes built to race.

Cycle World April 1987 called the '87 430 WR the "best Open-class enduro in existence - maybe the best enduro bike of any size."
 
Cycle World April 1987 called the '87 430 WR the "best Open-class enduro in existence - maybe the best enduro bike of any size."

would need a rear disc to be able to make that claim today. the rear drums are ok but just don't cut it against a good rear disc.

otherwise even against todays bikes, it wouldn't be far behind at all.

if I wasn't into the pre 80 thing, I would fit discs to the 400 and it would be a great rider.
 
Here's the rebuilt '87 250 motor in the frame. I decided to install a Powerdynamo ignition I got years ago from Penton Racing.

I'm working on fitting the Powerdynamo coil and regulator on to the frame. This is a problem 'cause the XC came with a SEM ignition not a Motoplat w/ coil like my WR's. The upper frame tabs - bolt holes don't line up to mount coil. I may have to fab something.

I installed the subframe and carb boot too.
I had to add washers to subframe bolts to widen the space for the Ohlins shock. Subframe was going to rub the right top side of shock... are all XC frames like this?
More pics to follow...

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everfree said:
Here's the rebuilt 250 motor in the frame. I decided to install a Powerdynamo ignition I got years ago from Penton Racing.

I'm working on fitting the Powerdynamo coil and regulator on to the frame. This is a problem 'cause the XC came with a SEM ignition not a Motoplat w/ coil like my WR's. The upper frame tabs - bolt holes don't line up to mount coil. I may have to fab something.

I installed the subframe and carb boot too.
I had to add washers to subframe bolts to widen the space for the Ohlins shock. Subframe was going to rub the right top side of shock... are all XC frames like this?
More pics to follow...

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looking great! you mean the left side? above the rebound adjuster?
 
everfree said:
Here's the rebuilt 250 motor in the frame. I decided to install a Powerdynamo ignition I got years ago from Penton Racing.

I'm working on fitting the Powerdynamo coil and regulator on to the frame. This is a problem 'cause the XC came with a SEM ignition not a Motoplat w/ coil like my WR's. The upper frame tabs - bolt holes don't line up to mount coil. I may have to fab something.

I installed the subframe and carb boot too.
I had to add washers to subframe bolts to widen the space for the Ohlins shock. Subframe was going to rub the right top side of shock... are all XC frames like this?
More pics to follow...

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My 87 WR and 89 TE are like that.
 
justintendo said:
looking great! you mean the left side? above the rebound adjuster?
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Thanks, Justin.
Nope, the right side of shock, up by the spring adjusters. If I crank down the spring adjusters to be below the lower subframe brace, the spacing would be OK. Just playing it safe and giving the shock and frame room to flex.

See the pic below, view from the top of shock... I added 2 washers between frame and the lower subframe brace to create some room...

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Here's the Powerdynamo ignition on the motor. It comes with everything you need, stator w/ built in plate, rotor, coil and regulator.

Notice the red dot on the stator plate, that's about TDC. The etched line on the rotor is at 2.0 mm BTDC. I hope I timed it correctly. :)
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As I mentioned above, I have to mount the new coil into the XC frame, which is setup for a SEM transistor unit not a coil.

Here's the XC upper frame tabs where the coil has to mount... and does not work...
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Here's how a WR frame with coil looks... this is how the coil should be mounted in the XC frame but the tabs don't exist.

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everfree said:
Thanks, Justin.
Nope, the right side of shock, up by the spring adjusters. If I crank down the spring adjusters to be below the lower subframe brace, the spacing would be OK. Just playing it safe and giving the shock and frame room to flex.

See the pic below, view from the top of shock... I added 2 washers between frame and the lower subframe brace to create some room...

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wow, i will have to go look at a bike now..never noticed this!
 
View of kicker side.
I left George's Up-Tite scratching visible on the cylinder. I don't want to cover up the evidence! Well, the exhaust will hide it...

I noticed my kicker is loose at its knuckle joint. Is it possible to rebuild and tighten it up? Has anyone done this?

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everfree said:
As I mentioned above, I have to mount the new coil into the XC frame, which is setup for a SEM transistor unit not a coil.

Here's the XC upper frame tabs where the coil has to mount... and does not work...
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Here's how a WR frame with coil looks... this is how the coil should be mounted in the XC frame but the tabs don't exist.

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Here is what my frame looks like, is your different?
 

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ajcmbrown said:
Here is what my frame looks like, is your different?
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Yes, my frame is different, being an XC frame with the SEM ignition.
See my frame pics above.

You have the WR frame with the Motoplat ignition. So, your frame is ready to mount a coil in the Y.

Here's the original SEM module that was in my frame:
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