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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1979 OR 250

cemetrykeeper

cemetrykeeper

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi
I have recently bought an OR250 with the intention of competing in a few Vinduros and possible the 3 day ISDE in france next year. having wanted to own a classic husqvarna for a few years i look forward to the challenge of restoring the 250 to the best of my ability( with the help of Cafe Husky).
could you kind people out there help with regards set up, what rear mudguard for enduros, what rear shocks to fit(curnitt at mo), wiring for light? gear box oil/ premix and any other usfull info that may help.
thanks for taking time to read
 
Sounds like big plans! Most husky's came with Ohlin shocks. There are plenty of parts for them and they work great. As for the rest of your questions, It's your personal preference. The oil questions will get you a million different answers. I use Motul for the pre-mix and ATF in the trans. Fenders are available in both MX and enduro. Wiring is pretty simple. You can do the lighting yourself. Just make sure the ignition has the lighting coil. Good luck with it!!
 
Ohlin's came on the 1980 you should have Currantts(spelling isn't right) the 1980 shocks should fit yours .
 
oil: go with a good quality oil at 40:1 castor 927 is popular for that nice caster smell... atf - f (the borg warner oil) is good or straight 30 wt (briggs and Stratton oil). I would chase Ohlins for your ride, excellent shocker.
 
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