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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1983 aluminum tank restoration

RUF

RUF

Husqvarna
AA Class
I received as gift this aluminum tank in very bad conditions.
Today I had some time and decided to try to restore it.
First I cut it.....not so difficult job, using an air grinder its easy.
Next days I will start the real restoration. I found an old aluminum welder man here in my area who is willing to help me to weld all the parts and he works so well !!!
Take a look at pics please.
Thanks
RUF
 

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BIG dings lucky its white bang the dings out give it a hit with bondo after it s back together
 
No bondo..... ;) .....no paint, just shining ****************************************!
We will see soon...
Thanks
 
Just make sure that when you weld it back up . Go slow on the top side so doesn't kinda droop the top towards (downwards) backbone . I go for a little ways then cool it with water and rag. Also, measure backbone on bike and get several pieces of pipe close to size. You can use wooden door/window shims to slide down along pipe. As you weld that inner backbone area likes to warp inward. Then you have to pull it out and you can crack a weld. Also, pressure test it with soapy water to see if there are any pinholes from welding.
 
:notworthy::notworthy:...
Thanks alot for your help.
I understand you already did that, right ?
 
Great Claude !
Have you any pic of the left side also, the one damaged so much please ?
Thanks
VERY WELL DONE **************************************** :cheers:......
 
Copie de SAM_5776.JPG

ok !
powder époxy RAL 9010
(prefere )
cover total tank decals
(MXM ,evo MX ,.....
prefere ! )


Sandblasting before !!
 
:eek::eek:....****************************************!
:notworthy::notworthy:********************************************************************************!
 
Here is a 82 tank that I restored using bondo, glazing paste, Avery conform chrome knee stickers, base coat and three coats of clear. Not showroom quality but respectable.
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So, that's not that the polished tank metal? It's a chrome sticker?
 
Darkside said:
So, that's not that the polished tank metal? It's a chrome sticker?
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It's like buying a KTM with husky stickers on it
It looks good but deep down its all wrong
No sorry mate red tank looks great
I'll post some pics of a 82 wr tank I've done
 
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