• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR400 restoration

Rhodeislander

Rhodeislander

Husqvarna
B Class
I bought this bike on CL for 400.00. It ran but not very well. Had green oil, and fuel pouring i the engine after just a few kicks. The rear bushings were far gone. Deemed to be unsafe, she has sat the summer waiting for attention. I have some great help here in the forum, even being sent parts, and a parts bike! I will try do do them and this bike justice. It may be slow, so stay tuned. I will need a good deal of help i'm sure.
 
Rhodeislander said:


Think I need to pickup a new pipe.
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I've never seen a pipe shaped like this, do you know if this was modified like this for a reason as it looks like they have added a length of pipe.
Normally the pipe would exit the cylinder & swing to the right side of the bike not go up like this one does.
 
That's not a Ae pipe the Ae pipe looks just like the WR pipe, with a smaller expansion chamber.
Some has modified that pipe no doubt. I was told that the Ae pipe was designed for more mid range??
 
speedyauto said:
I've never seen a pipe shaped like this, do you know if this was modified like this for a reason as it looks like they have added a length of pipe.
Normally the pipe would exit the cylinder & swing to the right side of the bike not go up like this one does.
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Has it been cut and welded ? It goes up instead of right side. So , less widght ?
 
my 1986 430 auto has that same pipe and its stock. i also have a husky products pipe(Asch) with the same bend for the 86' auto. actually now that i look at the pics blown up that is the husky products pipe.
 



Couple more photos on the bike. I will take one of the pipe alone if it helps, but im pretty sure this one is junk. I will order a new one once I do more research on a good vendor.
 


Next issue for the motor is this intake. I cant find anything that even looks like this as replacement. If this the right intake for the 400? I see a billet manifold online as aftermarket for 80 bucks or so, it says rubber piece can be bought from a bike shop? Really? Looks like this one does not fit the milled portion of the engine properly?
 
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