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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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I was fooling around with my 83 510 thumper tonight. Got the day off tomorrow so I figured Id chase some jack rabbits. Kepted looking over at an old Husky, it was kinda callen me, you guys know what I mean. Humm, what is it? A 250 or 390? Wrote down the frame and engine numbers and jetted into shop office. Looked up the frame and engine numbers list. Oh O, nothing turning up. So the frame number is ML 24229, engine is 2075 0532. Maybe I cant find it in the Husky frame/engine list cuz Im blind. Tank is aluminum, no paint on it. Its got Ohlins with remote res and a weird Husky expansion chamber. Yep the stinger is bolted on to the chamber with 3 bolts. I thinks its a 78 CR 250 cuz the only info I found on it discribes the 3 bolt stinger. The 390 had a two bolts holden the stinger to the chamber. Well folks, what do you all think this old hot rod is?
 
Yep, I htought it was a 2065 also. But nope! Hopefully I will do this right and upload a couple of pics. Then tell me what you think it is. Im a little lost myself. BTW, I did pull the tank off hopen it would have a bit of paint under there. It was a Marroon kinda of color. Guess I could call John over at Vintage Husky, He would probably laugh at me.Husky Engine#.jpgHusky Remotes.jpg
 
By the frame ID it is definately a 1978. If it has the 3rd under the cradle it would be a WR frame. 2075 does not show up in the list at husqvarna-parts.com so if you post a good picture of the left engine profile showing the cylinder and clutch case we can help you better.

The shocks came off a 79 or 80 perhaps. Welcome to used old bike world where things are not always what they are supposed to be
 
Well Im in the USA, Texas to be exact. In a small place called Red Gate on US 281. If you blink, you will blow by us, lol. Didnt get to ride my thumper much today. I spent the day on the phone and doing a little recearch on the computer. Since no one knew what motor this was and I was going nuts trying to figure out what it was. Well I took the top end off. It turns out it is a 250. But not a WR or CR. It is a 250 OR. Yep an OR, I never heard of it. But Mr Stahl pointed me in the right direction. I did find a bit of info on the bike but not much. Seems like it was a GHOST, but only known to Desert Racers. I guess someone took the steel red tank off and put on the lighter aluminum Marroon one on. Heres a small write up I found, the only one. If someone has got some more info on it, please pass it on. I will take a few pic of the old girl and post later, Shes not much to look at since shes been in a corner of my shop for 8 years, WAITING.

In 1978 Husqvarna introduced the OR (Optimal Ratio) model to fit the needs of high speed desert racers. The desert guys had been using CR's (Close Ratio), but when top end speed was increased on CR's with sprocket changes, the lo gears were too tall. To "optimize" the gearing, WR (Wide Ratio) gears were used for first second third, and the CR's gears were used for 4th, 5th, 6th. Desert racer"Curnutt" rear shocks were used and they are easily distinquished by their long orange/red springs . The 78 250 OR used an 18" rear wheel and both rims were polished Akronts, making this 250 model different from all the other 78's which had switched to17" rears and gold Nordisk rims. Altho still part of the ML frame series, all 78's had an additional curved tube added under the motor for protection and the sheet metal skid plates no longer used. The 250 OR used the large steel tank like the WR in Husky Red of course. WR Motoplat ignition was used on the OR models and if lights were needed, you just bolted them on and wired them up. The carburetors on all 78 models are Mikuni 38mm (except the 125 which retained a Bing). There is a Husky logo on the seat tail, a new round style ignition cover, and the 250's now have the intake manifold built into the cylinder. Engine number is a riveted tag just above the sprocket on the engine "shark fin".
 
In the restoration section Puckerbush detailed (2) 1978 250 OR rebuilds. Check them out. A lot of great info there!!
 
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