• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 420AXC transmission fluid

cool tires .

interesting about the forks . given how original the rest of it is youd have to wonder if the forks were oem 40mm . even if not publicized
 
I agree, the rest of the bike is too original to think someone swapped 40mm forks on it but left the Koni shocks.
 
Well I just called the bike shop that sold the bike back in 83 and they confirmed that it did come with 40mm forks!
 
our bike has 40mm forks too . however it has a lot of bits n pieces from other models etc . so may have had them swapped .
ours has a 500 style pipe on it that crosses over infront of the spark plug etc
 
Garrison said:
Well I just called the bike shop that sold the bike back in 83 and they confirmed that it did come with 40mm forks!
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I would suspect the dealership installed the 40mm forks to make the bike sell easier. As The 82 AXC and AE autos still had the 35mm forks. Also the 82AXC tank was red and white (or at least most did) and many dealers installed the black and gold tanks again to make the autos sell easier. Your AXC has the early rear hub so this was probably an early production 82 AXC. Some of the later 82 AXC's had the "new" rear hub as used on the 82 CR's/XC's. Your speedometer was also a dealer or owner add on. This does not take away from you bike, it is very nice. My 82 AXC has the piggy back Ohlins and I believe the dealer or previous owner sometime during it's life installed them. Has anyone ever found a sales brochure for the 82 420 autos? I have only seen the sales brochure for the 81 420 autos.

Marty
 
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