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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1978 Husky 250 OR Restoration

Puckerbush

Puckerbush

Husqvarna
AA Class
I picked this up for $250 in Sept of this year. It was complete except for the Mikuni. I had a spare '78 250 OR engine that I put in it since the original had broken teeth and case. I'm waiting for the shocks to be done and then I'm finished. I'll fix the original motor and find a rolling chassis.
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I raced a 78 250OR back in the day. As I recall that was my all time favorite bike. I hope my memory hasn't failed me, because I'm in the process of building one now. It's a 77 250CR but basically the same bike.
Yours looks awesome!!

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Ron, It looks like your bike has everything you need to make a beautiful restoration. Just take your time and keep your eyes on the prize at the end. And that prize is to have people like you compliment your work.
I was able to replace the broken gears from another transmission and I bought a complete case to replace the broken one for about $70. Main bearings (skf 3205) are pretty expensive because they are double row bearings. Also, I use Viton seals (main, mag, and countershaft) which are also pricy, but they hold up to extreme heat. Keep us posted on the progress.

God Bless.
 
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