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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Steel tank prechrome dent removal???

Erick Gutierrez

Erick Gutierrez

Husqvarna
C Class
So... I've repaired steel and fiberglass tanks from other makers. Normal dent pullers, plus body fillers, sanding and patience is all that is needed. Huskys present a different problem. The metal is showing. What do you do? I have experimented with bronze, it doesn't work since it is harder than steel so a file grabs more of the good surrounding steel that the bronze and makes a mess. I've been told that you can chrome over solder that melts over 500 degrees F. So that would be an easy fix. I've wondered about weird stuff like filling a tank with sand then heating one spot with a torch (the sand would allow just one small part to really get hot) then simaltaniously adding air pressure. Haven't tried that yet- probably blow myself up. I read about someone freezing water in a tank. As the water froze and expanded, dents were pushed out- apparentely the tunnel was also distorted.
Does anyone know how to fix a tank themselves???
 
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