• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Titanium Footpegs

Hwy

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No, not really titanium but sure looks like it.
This are husqvarna-parts.com 4031 Chromoly pegs that have been treated with Caswell's Penetrating Sealant for 24 hrs and baked at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

End result is sealed bare metal with titanium look.

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Now that my friend is some coooooooool plating!!!

Caswell's Penetrating Sealant? Never heard of it. Done at the house or did it go out to someone? Sand blasting not needed? Who? Where? How much? Again, very nice.
 
Did at my shop but you can do it at home. No special equipment needed.
We wire brushed mounted on the grinder and finished it off with 600 grit wet/dry cloth and wiped down with acetone or denatured alchol.
Product says to brush or dip for 10-15 minutes in PSEAL1P PENETRATING SEALER available in pint, quart, gal or 5 gallon quantity. We left the pegs submersed for 24 hrs (we forgot about them), thoroughly let drip dry for another 24 hrs before handling. Wiped with clean paper towel and put in pre-heated oven for thirty minutes.

You can skip the oven if you'd like -
 
I shudder when I see those footpegs, I have those one my 82-430XC. First kick with my brand new SIDI boots, hit toe on peg and ripped steel toe guard off! Second kick, about tear hole in leather. Not pegs fault I just have a big size 13 foot! Those look very very nice, I took a flap wheel to mine and "tamed" them down a little. Will those now be corrosion resistant?
 
Yes. We've used this product for years and it is corrosion resistant.
According to manufacture's data sheet the penetrating sealant enters the pores of the metal with a oil solvent then is sealed when solvent evaporates. They remain a little oily for a couple of days then completely dry after that.

Sure beats a 3M pad every few weeks to keep bare metal looking bright.
I'll be trying it on my exhaust pipes in the next few days.
 
Hwy;55282 said:
No, not really titanium but sure looks like it.
This are husqvarna-parts.com 4031 Chromoly pegs that have been treated with Caswell's Penetrating Sealant for 24 hrs and baked at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

End result is sealed bare metal with titanium look.

Before and after photos
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Very Nice.... great titanium look!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

T
 
I just purchased a set of these pegs from husqvarna-parts.com and i deburred and radiused the edges and they are currently getting nickel plated along with several other parts from my bike.Cant wait to see how they will look.
 
husqvarna-parts foot pegs deburred,radiused and nickel plated.
 

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flyingbob;81308 said:
Any idea how this would work on an unfinished two stroke exhaust pipe?
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As a matter of fact, I do know.
I liberally coated my pipe with Caswell's twice in a 48 hr period. I baked in oven for 225 degrees for 12 minutes.

I came out looking slightly brownish but alleviated the rusting of bare metal on the bike. I've heat cycled the exhaust by running it on three rides without the hint of oxidation or rusting.
It's been about two months without the need of using a scotch bright pad on the pipe. Time will tell if I need to do it again.
 
Hwy;81317 said:
As a matter of fact, I do know.
I liberally coated my pipe with Caswell's twice in a 48 hr period. I baked in oven for 225 degrees for 12 minutes.

I came out looking slightly brownish but alleviated the rusting of bare metal on the bike. I've heat cycled the exhaust by running it on three rides without the hint of oxidation or rusting.
It's been about two months without the need of using a scotch bright pad on the pipe. Time will tell if I need to do it again.
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Thanks for the info!
 
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