• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

310huskyTE

310huskyTE

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I got this bike a couple of years ago, and it sat waiting for it's turn for some love while i was restoring my 81 CR 250. A few months ago i started the resto!
The bike was in pretty poor condition when i got it, someone decided to paint the frame, swing arm and triple clamp white. The pipe had a terrible repair job done on it and is going in the bin.
It had a huge rear tyre on it that had worn grooves in the shock resivour cannisters, so new cannisters were needed and the tank had some dents in it.

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On the plus side the front wheel is in good condition!
 
i dont know if i would call that poor...have you seen some of the bikes for sale?? im sure it needs a lot of little stuff tho. looks like a great starting point! those look like the 35mm forks..have you thought about going to the 80s 40mm? take lots of pics us!
 
Time to get into it and see what it's really like :eek:

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The air box has been cut and had rubber riveted to it so it will be getting a new air box.
 
justintendo said:
i dont know if i would call that poor...have you seen some of the bikes for sale?? im sure it needs a lot of little stuff tho. looks like a great starting point! those look like the 35mm forks..have you thought about going to the 80s 40mm? take lots of pics us!
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It looks better in the pics than it actually is, and yes it is getting 40mm forks.
 
No broken springs!! :applause:

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It's had a dodgy fix to the side stand lug so it was out with the grinder and off with the lug and in it's place will be a new one from HVA-Factory.

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I found a good pipe on ebay, so i bought it and waited for it to arrive.
I got a message from the seller saying that he was having trouble with the post office and the size of the pipe, so he cut it so it would be accepted! :mad: :mad:

Here's how the pipe turned up. :banghead:

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The rear brake stay and rod are toast, so new ones have been sourced, the brake pedal is useable but i have a better one that i will be using.
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With the bike totally stripped it was off the VMX Recreations in Bendigo to start the painting, powder coating, shock and engine rebuild and to get the pipe welded back together.

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After a couple of months, i went back up to Bendigo and picked up all my restored parts and started reassembling the bike.

Powder coated swing arm with new side stand bracket.

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Powder coated frame.

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New swing arm bearings and bushes and the motor is in!

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The welded up pipe came up a treat you'd hardly know its been cut and welded! i need to take some photos of it.
Pipe installed along with the 40 mm triple clamp, forks and new head stem bearings.

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310huskyTE said:
I found a good pipe on ebay, so i bought it and waited for it to arrive.
I got a message from the seller saying that he was having trouble with the post office and the size of the pipe, so he cut it so it would be accepted! :mad: :mad:

Here's how the pipe turned up. :banghead:

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wow, did he clear this with you first? dang, what a terrible place to cut it. repair looks awesome tho. ive always liked the looks of the 390 pipes with the heat shield..looks really sharp so far
 
justintendo said:
wow, did he clear this with you first? dang, what a terrible place to cut it. repair looks awesome tho. ive always liked the looks of the 390 pipes with the heat shield..looks really sharp so far
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No he didn't clear it with me first, if he told me he was going to do that I would have told him to refund my money and keep the pipe.
 
well its lookin damn good so far:applause: is that a CR frame or am tard with a wood powered computer that dont know much about husky autos:excuseme:
 
No you're not a tard, you'd be right in guessing that, the rear frame loop has been cut off at some point and for some reason it has a CR swing arm, the frame and engine numbers definitely make it an XC, if I can get my hands on an XC swing arm I'd probably buy it.
 
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