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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1986 250xc

bsh7680

bsh7680

Husqvarna
AA Class
So I picked up a rough 86 250 xc this week expecting to part it out. I have bought a couple of bikes before and sold the good parts before. This bike had a pretty big whole in the clutch cover due to kickstarted being installed wrong. I decided to kick the bike over a couple of times and to my surprise the darn thing started and idled. I then realized there was no kill switch. So my questions are how hard would a clutch side cover be to find and should I look at rebuilding or still parting out. After looking the bike over the plastic is awful and it needs wheel bearings, tires and a lot of TLC, but it runs.
 
great bike, take a look on ebay to get an idea of availability. a good cover can be had for under 100 easy if you look. 85-88 2 or 4 stroke will fit..the 4 strokes just need a vent added.
as for the bike...thats your call. if everything is roached..then likely shouldnt invest the 1000 plus dollars to make it right. but if it has a good core then, you know...
takes a special person to want to run one of these, but a great performing bike for its year and very comfortable. really at home in the desert or woods..pretty fast too with the "real deal" 6 speed. hand built in sweden, but likely butchered up some by now at the hands of some clown..
we need some pics..or parts...
 
Fix it at little cost as possible. I'll bet it may turnout to be a good runner. If the rear shock, engine and tranny are ok the rest to fix is nothing.
 
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