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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

up date on Curnnut shock rebuild.

oldhuskychuck

oldhuskychuck

Husqvarna
A Class
well, it was pretty easy, even though these had already been bubba rebuilt at one time, and they used channel locks to take em apart,
i cleaned, beadblasted the tubes, flushed out the ATF and dirt.
cleaned the threads, polished out the channel lock teeth marks.
new O rings, new seals, added some 10w, fork oil, stripped and repainted the springs,,and they work like a charm.
id bet, if i removed the small O ring that on the inside of the screw cap, machined out that area, and installed a double lip seal, used a caustic material seal,,they would last forever..
but, this time i kept it simple, and just resealed, painted, and everything looks peachy..
granted, they arent on a Husky..but my Ossa MAR 350 will now ride smooth....now..for the rear brake shoes...hmmmm.
 
With Swedish accent, "squeaka squeaka." Good friend's '78 250 had Curnutts and that's EXACTLY how it sounded.

Did you take any pics?
 
These were the non squeaka squeaka shocks. Didn't have springs and were never sold. Way before Fox shocks. Circa 1970. I still have a bunch of original steekers. I worked there for about 7 years.
 

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oldhuskychuck;99107 said:
i put a plastic guard over the tube, so it shouldnt squeak...
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You did WHAT!!? That's like cutting the #&+$ off your doberman! Just plain wrong.
 
thats a good thing..i dont have a Doberman, and cant stand squeeks and rattlles,,,
my Brittany doesnt have #&+$ as well.. she doesnt bark, squeek, or rattle.
so we get along great..lol...
 
My Curnutts

I had the 16" 6in travel Curnutt gas shocks on my MR250 in the 70's. They were excellent in the day and rebuilt now I am sure are still a nice choice for vintage iron
 
I have a pair I'm trying to rebuild also.Made a tool and got them apart and put fresh ATF in.Way too light on the compression.I even found a slightly longer and heavier spring off a trashed pair. Still too light. I need a way to recharge the gas.I'm 99% sure they were gas charged shocks.Any suggestions?
 
Chayzed Pilot;99160 said:
These were the non squeaka squeaka shocks. Didn't have springs and were never sold. Way before Fox shocks. Circa 1970. I still have a bunch of original steekers. I worked there for about 7 years.
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I grew up in the high desert ca.-Apple valley/Hesperia-- had curnnuts on two of my suzuki tm's back in the day as a kid and loved them for the desert and can still here the squeaks as if it was today! got quite a few pairs hanging on the vintage show wall in garage!! Now, I'm still very much into vintage bikes and history of it----I have heard that charles curnnut was in hesperia ca. any truth to that, that you know of?
 
race-desert;135340 said:
I grew up in the high desert ca.-Apple valley/Hesperia-- had curnnuts on two of my suzuki tm's back in the day as a kid and loved them for the desert and can still here the squeaks as if it was today! got quite a few pairs hanging on the vintage show wall in garage!! Now, I'm still very much into vintage bikes and history of it----I have heard that charles curnnut was in hesperia ca. any truth to that, that you know of?
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Charles senior lives in 29 Palms.
 
Then they moved the factory to 29 Palms in 1975 I think, and I started working for him right after that. I worked for Chuck till 1982. I was the last employee there. The best job I ever had.
 
I am rebuilding a set of Curnutt shock for a ‘74 Maico (come on guys, I am a Husky guy). These were built for the longest travel I am aware of. These shocks are 16 3/4” ish. Over 6” of shock stroke. I want to keep these in authentic. My customer is thinking about shortening them (springs would need to be replaced). The forks have been modified, likely by a skilled person with modified fork caps with air valves. Wh would not use this method in more modern days but I applaud these skilled and wonderful people who brought our the technology we have up to now.

I would like to get more information to help out this retired man who loved and loves his motorcycles.
Thanks for any help!
Rick
Cogent Dynamics Inc
 
NC Rick said:
I am rebuilding a set of Curnutt shock for a ‘74 Maico
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Why does he want to put Curnutts on a Maico? Unless he going to be riding 50mph through the desert. There are better VMX shocks from that era. BTW, their not referred to as "Cur-clunks" for nothing. :D
 
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