• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Vintage Pro Circuit stuff

I tried last week. No luck. Maybe if enough interest is shown by emailing they might do us a favor.

Hi, I'm wondering if you guys still work on vintage Husqvarnas. I have an 82
XC250 and have seen some pictures with Pro Circuit parts. I was born in 1986
so I was not around in the glory days of these bikes. I guess what I'm
asking is can I get reproduction Pro Circuit parts for my bike? And do you
guys still do cylinder porting for old Huskys? Thanks, Jake.

Sent from my iPhone=

Response: Jake,
Unfortunately we do not have any specification any more for these vintage
bikes.
Regards
Cyp
 
have you tried repacking it terrence? they usually be made pretty reasonable...altho a piston that big firing as many times as it is is a bit harder to mute than a 250
 
weld a little extension to the end of the muffler pipe and angle it down to the ground at 45 degrees. takes the "crack" out of it! 89 kdx 200's had this as std
 
Great ideas..... no,I hadn't repacked it yet... Never have done this as I'm a 4 stroke guy... is it easy to get the right materials to do this?
I like the 45 degree elbw idea too.

Thanks
 
Yep, super easy. A bag of FMF repack goes for under $10 at Cycle Gear (or any retailer). I know a lot of people that use the regular pink house insulation...it's basically the same stuff, fiberglass.

Remove the screws at the base of the silencer, pull it apart, remove old oil soaked packing, Optionally, clean/degrease perforated core, scrub with wire brush to clean the holes. Then wrap with new packing, wrap a few strips of masking tape to hold in place. Insert back in canister. Put screws back in. You're good to go.

You can also throw some high temp silicon on the sealing surface by the screws when you put it together to prevent the oil drips.
 
cleaning the core is important, if the holes are carboned up, either give it the gas to cherry red treatment and tap gently or make a small drill to clean out the holes (while you sit and watch the lord of the rings or the star wars series)..

you can also use steel wool as a packer, I like it better than f glass. just get a roll from hardware and wrap it round and round the tube till its a bit bigger than the muffler tube size then jam it all back together. use silicon everywhere and let it cure for 24hrs and you should be oil leak free.

"im a 4 stroke guy"

they benefit from correct packing more than twoies!
 
repacking also can really improve engine output as well...
if you have a silencer with missing packing, the gas flows into the packing area instead of straight out of the silencer..im betting your 500 will run and sound much better with a packjob, also keeping the original look!
 
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