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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

72 450 WR Tank Restoration

lol, some times there worse than kids... Keep us posted with some pics as you reassemble the bike. Its kinda like a motivation thing.
 
Wonderful job on the tank. I also like your refurbish job on the rear inner fender. Being handy at tig welding certainly has its perks. It looks like some material has been removed from the cylinder skirt next to the transfer ports, that's a big plus for improving volume. Have you considered taking it a step further and cleaning up the entry to the transfer ports? Check out the photo.

Also, Husky came out with a service bulletin describing what porting mods to do to improve the 450's performance. Check out the attached PDF.

Can't wait to see the finished product and get feedback on your first ride.
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Excellent work on the ports, crash. The performance upgrade is free when we port n polish. The tank looks too good for the woods.
 
That is why I would put a Clarke tank on a rider. I could keep a durable finish like Deltron on a tank but that will not protect from dents
 
Great job on the restoration. Nice pics. Real nice metal skills & the finishes look great. Gonna be a beauty.
 
Looks like its coming along great. With the wheels already built you don't have to much further to go.

Have you decided what kind of shocks you'll be using to complement the Race Tech fork upgrade?

What ignition did you go with?
 
Crashaholic said:
Looks like its coming along great. With the wheels already built you don't have to much further to go.

Have you decided what kind of shocks you'll be using to complement the Race Tech fork upgrade?

What ignition did you go with?
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Thanks Crashaholic, I have an old pair of Works shocks which I liberated from my Norton build but I'm still on the hunt for a set of period racing shocks. As for the ignition I installed a Penton Dynamo (AC) which I purchased from John LaFeve. I plan on running a 200mm Hella light and unfortunately the standard 6V 30watt output wouldn't wouldn't cut it.
 
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