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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2015 NORRA 1000 on a 1970 Husky 400 Cross

yield2me

yield2me

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Hey guys,

Some friends and I have decided to race my recently acquired 1970 Husky 400 at NORRA in 2015. I raced it last year in my Rhino, but wanted to try it out on a Vintage Husky. First I picked up a 1976 360 WR, but when I came across the 400, I knew that was the bike of choice. I got it for $1300 and it hasn't ran since the mid-80's. It had a Malcolm Smith Desert tank and old school Preston Petty plastic fenders. Currently, I am deployed, but my good friend and teammate had the bike in Phoenix and is prepping it for the big race. The team includes myself, Kevin, 3 other Army guys, and my 14 year old son Kyle (he has more desert racing miles than the rest of us!!).

I will update this thread as Kevin sends me pics.



Rob
 

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Kevin got it home and started checking it over, and making a list of parts. His first goal was to see if it would run. Here is a pic of the intake with the filter removed....spotless!! Being stored inside for almost 30 years and being in the desert (purchased in oct 1970 from a dealership in Ridgecrest...and I bought it from a guy in Ridgecrest) really saved it.
 

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Tires are rotten, but still hold air. He used the original tank for testing. After replacing the petcock and few carb gaskets, he put some 20:1 premix in and she fired up! Test run around the block determined clutch was shot (probably why it was initially put away) and the brakes suck. image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg
 

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New Works Billet shocks came in, too.image.jpg


Here are the vintage jerseys the team will be wearing during the race. (My son is the model!!)image.jpg

Now that it runs, Kevin is going to do a full year down. Reassembly will include bib mousse tubes, Maxxis tires, and a bunch if new parts (brakes, clutch, cables, etc, etc). Plus the forks will be sent off for rebuilding/upgrading.

I have decided to NOT do a full resto, but to focus on preserving it, and making it mechanically perfect.

More to come later!

Rob
 
Sorry...this site is lame.

I've gotten WAY more feed back from the build thread on a 4x4 website than here. I can't even get a simple response. Are Husky owners that much above everyone else? Jeeze.

In case anyone cares....the bike is done (with absolutely no help from this site) and the green flag at Norra drops in a month.

Peace....
Rob
 

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the NORRA event is super cool, get some and most of all have fun with it!! That bike must really be a low hour machine judging by the cleanliness of the parts.
 
Sorry, but your thread must've been buried. Clicked right on it today. Looks great. I'm sure if you post some of those pics in the Swedish section, you'll get plenty of love. Looks like you found a jewel to be sure. So the plastic tank isn't too brittle I hope.

How much run time does it have in it's current state?
 
If you are going with works shocks your rear suspension will vastly outperform your front. I highly recommend putting some gold valve emulators from Race Tech in your front forks or your bike will be badly unbalanced.

Beautiful bike BTW.
 
yield2me said:
Sorry...this site is lame.

I've gotten WAY more feed back from the build thread on a 4x4 website than here. I can't even get a simple response. Are Husky owners that much above everyone else? Jeeze.

In case anyone cares....the bike is done (with absolutely no help from this site) and the green flag at Norra drops in a month.

Peace....
Rob
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maybe you should post in the VINTAGE section under LEFT KICKERS where people talk about these year bikes. only people that race generally look in here..have you bothered even looking around here? this is usually one of the most helpful sites around. im not sure what you are looking for, you havent really asked any questions, just shown pictures of a nice bike.
peace....
justin
 
wow man sorry your thread did get buried [ its happened to me] cool bike have fun with it and yes that is a vintage MS tool bag i had one like it that got away :banghead:
 
i honestly think this thread is suddenly visible or something. ive never seen it before. weird. thats happened a couple times.
 
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