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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

$350 barn find

86 400 XC said:
I got it for 1/2 of what he was asking.

89 TE 510, needs some love for sure but a good start.
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Cool bike, nice score. Way to go, 86 400 XC.

Save another Husky from neglect.

That year has the Marzocchi forks I think.
Now you have two 510s. Always good to stick with bike models you know.
 
Very good job !!!
Now the pleasure starts !!!
:cheers: ****************************************!
 
The carb is a little stuck, no start yet.
Will look into things before i try to start it.
Compression is there, decompression worked for 2 pulls and the stock cable broke.
Tons of stuff is mint but its seen a few good wipe outs.
Frame is looking great so far.

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Shock is leaking but works ATM
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more work
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This will take a while,






Wow Steve, you got a great deal, & your really tearing into already, so it won't take that long LOL
 
the needle and needle jet will be worn out from vibrating at idle so it will seem real rich off the bottom. cant wait to see the resto:popcorn:
 
the strange VIN
No, its not strange to me...:D..
Your 510 was made in Italy....
Listen, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE change all valves because my italian friends used the two pieces valves which broke 100 %.
:cheers:...
 
So looking for these items, any help woud be great
-Valves
-89 L side 4 stroke rad shroud
-TE rear fender
 
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