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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
1974 Husqvarna CR 250 Mag
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It looks like it is an excellent candidate for a restoration. Too bad someone 'soiled' what looks to be the original tank. For your sake I hope it is the original as you really do not want to know how much a trashed tank would cost you, much less a nice one. It looks to be complete except for number plate and the expansion chamber looks to be in very good shape
lavigeboy27
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The tank is original, it's just painted over and kind of rusty inside. I've been trying to clean the inside and I've been stripping the paint off of it.
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I'll definitely need all the help I can get. This is my first Husky and I probably will have a ton of questions. I was wondering if you do know the color codes for the tank and the frame?
Thanks
Bill
Mugella Red is from Club Husky Newsletters. Craig shows the components for DuPont and also mention it was a modified . I would check for a match between a 70's Volvo or Saab. It would make sense Husqvarna would use colors available commonly within Sweden.
There are 2 ways to derust a fuel tank that I know of. Electrolysis and Evapo-Rust. I prefer Evapo-Rust as there is no electricity dancing about in water. I would start by removing the fuel tap and using a cup or 2 of aquarium gravel and water to break down the rust. Rinse out well with water and dry. Block the fuel tap(you can use Silly Putty but I would put the tap back in)and fill with Evapo-Rust. 3 gallon of Evapo-Rust would cost about $24 gallon and after the tank you can use it to treat any thing else that may be rusted. After derusting the inside I would treat the inside with Caswell Epoxy Fuel tank sealer. Anything less than a catalyzed sealer has been proven to fail from the ethanol in our fuel supply. I have gotten Evapo-Rust from Autozone and Harbor Freight stores.
There are 2 ways to derust a fuel tank that I know of. Electrolysis and Evapo-Rust. I prefer Evapo-Rust as there is no electricity dancing about in water. I would start by removing the fuel tap and using a cup or 2 of aquarium gravel and water to break down the rust. Rinse out well with water and dry. Block the fuel tap(you can use Silly Putty but I would put the tap back in)and fill with Evapo-Rust. 3 gallon of Evapo-Rust would cost about $24 gallon and after the tank you can use it to treat any thing else that may be rusted. After derusting the inside I would treat the inside with Caswell Epoxy Fuel tank sealer. Anything less than a catalyzed sealer has been proven to fail from the ethanol in our fuel supply. I have gotten Evapo-Rust from Autozone and Harbor Freight stores.
Chayzed Pilot
Husqvarna
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Vinegar works well for cleaning out gas tanks.