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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

not husky...Moto Villa!!

suprize

suprize

Husqvarna
Pro Class
hey guys, I have procured a 1980 Moto Villa needing a full restore. I will be photo doccing the work and im wondering if anyone here would like to see the job as it progresses. cheers20170305_090255.jpg
 
there is some "buyer resistance" from her indoors so its in the container "up the back" till I get thru some more projects. I am tidying up an Austin a30 two door which had more leaks than a chinese herb garden, then the tractor needs splitting and a new clutch , steering components etc. finaly my 307 chev needs the front timing case re sealed then, I might get to the villa. should start nxt week!

they ride just like a maico with brakes:thumbsup:

here is one I prepared earlier

View: https://youtu.be/Mm_xZ-snfa4
 
That sounds like a nice bike John, one of the only things I don't recall fondly about my Maico was the brakes! I look forward to the build.
 
20170314_135759.jpg20170314_140039.jpg right, I got t he top end off the other day as I was suddenly worried about mag cases and corrosion. the bike has sat outside for a loooong time and the pipe rusted off it!!

fortunately the piston was at tdc blanking the exhaust port...20170314_135509.jpg20170314_135535.jpg20170314_135509.jpg
 
Some minor rust spots on the crank, big end looks and feels like new as does the small end. some surface rust around the top of the bore which is ok. will prob hone, check ring gap then suss if I bore or not.

will split engine and look inside, do the main seals at a minimum.20170314_140039.jpg20170314_140741.jpg
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some 30+ y/o silicon holding that mag cover on! very clean motosplat inside ...

so all up it looks clean down in the crank zone, will get it to mr Mc Hanic to rip it down.

the rider bike had some minor gbox selection issues so I will be looking closely at dogs and teeth etc
 
its pretty powdered but a wire brush quickly brings up clean metal, worse than it looks TC

the track is at a mates 10k's from anywhere but the council man was driving past one day when 1/2 a dozen blokes were going around and he thought it was a race! a lot of official attention saw him can it for awhile.
 
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