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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1985 Husky 500 CR restoration

Timppa R

Timppa R

Husqvarna
A Class
Let`s start a new topic about my 1985 500 CR restoration project. The bike was completely stripped down to a couple of plastic boxes when I bought it. A lot of parts were missing, swingarm broken etc. but I wanted to give the bike a new life. I`m going to make this bike like new so I searched parts all over the world. New original side number plates I found from Cyprus, like new used exhaust pipe from USA.. etc.

First picture about the project:


Tank properly cleaned and new hard seat foam from Ceet Racing with EVO MX seat cover fitted.
 
Some progress. Yesterday i got the bike rolling. The frame is fixed (the swingarm shaft holes were badly worn so I had to grind and weld a bit) and powdercoated. Rear subframe is new NOS part (if you look closely, you can see the part label:)) as the Öhlins shock. All bearings and spacers new also. I got an -87 250 forks and better front brake for the bike, those fork down tubes will be powdercoated in white next week. Engine is under restauration also, there was a couple of problems there :( Cylinder liner was cracked from the bottom, wrong wrist pin bearing had destroyed the con rod, left engine case had a loose clutch shaft bearing mounting hole, ignition side crank stub shaft threads were shot...:banghead:

 
Engine is under restauration also, there was a couple of problems there :( Cylinder liner was cracked from the bottom, wrong wrist pin bearing had destroyed the con rod, left engine case had a loose clutch shaft bearing mounting hole, ignition side crank stub shaft threads were shot...:banghead:

Sounds like a typical , old bike restoration, keep you chin up :)
 
stock up on rear fenders and mufflers. these 500's like to loop out. ASK ME HOW I KNOW! :lol:
 
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