• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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different gas tank colors????

Bigbill

Bigbill

Husqvarna
Pro Class
70's to '83 colors??
White milk truck '83 metal, '84 plastic. 250/430/500?
Red and silver sides, smaller size gas, cap offset Cr dates I'm not sure of the year.
Red and silver sides, larger size gas, cap offset to one side?
Black and silver sides, smaller size, gas cap offers to one side, '78/'78 390cr?
Black and silver sides, larger size, gas cap offset to one side, 82 250/430 wr???
Maroon red, silver sides, larger size, gas cap offset, ???

Purple silver sides larger??
Green smaller size??
Baby blue smaller size??
Yellow smaller size?

Anymore colors help please, thanks for all your help so far and in the future.

I'm putting some husqvarna bikes together and want them to be color, size and correct to the year, model. When I post pics here I want them politically correct.

I wish we had a sticky here on the colors of gas tanks, the year and the model application.????
 
I was trying to find a useable petcock a couple of weeks ago. I have steel tanks, aluminum tanks and plastic tanks. You might get the wrong material that would be more politically incorrect than the wrong color. The small aluminum alloy tanks with the filler on one side look good with no paint in my opinion. There wasn't a useable petcock on any metal tanks, there is a disc with four holes, I ended up buying a punch and a neoprene giant washer and making one. Not sure how it will hold up but the more stuff you have the more stuff you have to maintain.
 
The 1972 suzuki ts-185 peacock rubber can be forced into the husqvarna peacock then you turn the lever/flat valve to lap / wear it into the rubber for a full seal. The rubber will be completely shiney so it will seal. Install the snap ring. The lever will be snug but it works. On the 70' to '83 pedcocks.

I posted this on the husky club news letter.
 
Also had leaking petcock , found a rubber piece for a Honda . Think it was a 350 , od was correct and fuel holes same diameter . Don't remember year or model but has been good for 3 plus years . Was a little thicker but a few minutes with some wet and dry solved that problem . As for tank colors vs model check the brochures in the tech reference .doesn't have them all but it's a start . Almost forgot , petcock was on an 81 tank .
 
One of the petcocks didn't have the snap ring but two screws. It would have been a battle if I had to use one of the snap ring ones. The one I used had the a nice tall good condition screen.

My point was if you go back to 70's you are getting into steel tanks. I think the 360 auto had what I would call a large green steel one.
 
Both my 78's have the large steel one. original black on the 390WR and the Auto has the same large tank, that too is black.
 
I have a '80/'81 cr frame (250cr) red small tank? a '82 cr frame 430cr black tank or red?
A 81 420cr black tank or red? 84 430wr milk truck. Do I have the painted tanks correct for that era?

I'm working on more project bikes too.
 
The XC was black with gold pin stripes in 82, the 430CR was a darker red with gold pin stripes than the 82 250CR which had white pin stripes. The 81 XC was blue with white pin stripes, the 82 WRs were dark blue with gold pin stripes, the 82 125CR was metallic blue with gold stripes. There are a lot more colors than the ones I listed, those are just the ones off the top of my head.
 
81 250 or 430 large red tank with white lettering and stripe . 81 was 1st year of this tank .
 
The 82 430CR had the maroon tank that is shaped like the other 82 tanks that are distinctively different shape than the earlier WR and CR tanks
 
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