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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

cleaning up the faded plastic gas tanks?

I'm going to remove the tank and clean up each part. I'll rebuild the 250wr over the winter. I want a brand new looking bike running by spring.
 
Ok ill try to scan pics of my past restorations too. I had a brand new looking/running '83 250cr 5 speed with a 87 front fork with a disc brake.
 
Plastic renewal as above and many plastic renewal polish kits should be available at nearly any dealership who sells off road bikes and quads.
 
DO NOT sand the tank!!! You can sand all you want and never get rid of the discoloration because it came from the inside and is within the entire thickness of the plastic. I have heard of those who have sanded out the discoloration and had their tanks split apart from thinning the plastic. You need to seal the inside of the tank with a sealer that will not dissolve from the 10% alcohol content in our fuel supply. You will need an adhesion promotor on the outside skin of the tank as the paint needs the bite to stick to plastic
 
The best method I have seen is to make a "skin" for the tank. DC Plastics has a plastic tank skin for the '85-'86 Husky, but a KTM guy actually wrapped his tank in fiberglass. He used the thinnest glass he could find, you dont need strength, just skin over the tank. Once you finish skinning the tank, it never bubbles or stains.
 
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