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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1982 420 AXC Auto

H

Hockeylife

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi, picked up this bike last summer not knowing anything about it, including year, model, or the fact it was an auto. Had been sitting for a number of years and not running. Schooled myself on the auto here, so took the left side cover off and found 2 of the 3 springs intact. The 3rd is in bits at the bottom of the cases. Over this weekend removed the right side covers, removed the transmission assembly - found the gears do not move freely. Well 1 moved from the others, but that was it. Found the schematic of the assembly and learned about freewheels for the first time. Now that I knew what what inside the assembly I slowly pried apart. To my dismay, the largest FW was destroyed, the 3 smaller were also destroyed, and the the 2 middle were bad, but not destroyed. So it seems I need all 5. Come to understand these parts are no longer available or prohibitively expensive if found.
Thinking I should abandon the restoration for fear of being upside down real quick, should I find the parts, and/or whatever other problems lie waiting.
Any thoughts, please? ThanksView attachment 55743View attachment 55745View attachment 55747image.jpg image.jpg
 
Whoops, very expensive, Tritrophy on ebay has Auto stuff new and second hand. If the free wheels are f***ed you will also need to replace the bearings:cry:
A conventional engine of the era will fit easily:)
If you do decide not to repair the engine I would be interested in the engine, I run a couple of 420s so any parts are always useful.
Good luck in what ever you decide to do
 
they are a unique bike and sought after. I would work to get it going again as you will have no trouble flogging it. pick up a manual engine so you can ride it while you rebuild the auto.
 
What to do ?
It depends if you are interested in vintage bikes or vintage automatics bikes.
Freewheels can be found and cost from around $40 to $100 depending of size.
Spring costs around $30.
There's a lot of maintenance on autos.
But autos are weird bikes but also fun to ride.
So, it depends if you have some money to spend or not.

Any pics ??
 
Hi, Thanks for all the responses, appreciate it. Bike not sold, bought just to bring back to life, not really to ride as I have others to ride. If I were to sell, what's it worth in it's current condition? I know, need pics, but has original blue Ohlins, the large aluminum tank - with appropriate dents of course. Mostly all there. Thanks again!
 
Ok, clearly I've been identified as a fraud. As I said upfront, didn't know much about the bike and I've proven just that. Sorry for the misrepresentation.
 
Hockeylife said:
Ok, clearly I've been identified as a fraud. As I said upfront, didn't know much about the bike and I've proven just that. Sorry for the misrepresentation.
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I dont think anyone is claiming you are a fraud, we are just commenting on what the bike should have come with original equipment.
 
Lots of helpful people here. No one is trying to prove anyone wrong...just trying to share the collective knowledge. We are all interested in everyone's projects. :thumbsup:
 
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