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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

72' 400 with 75' wr engine 2048-0604

DPete

DPete

Husqvarna
A Class
What are your thoughts on buying a non matching bike? Plenty clean but bill of sale only, no title
Comes with original forks and shocks. Owner is honest about it.husky 400.jpgHusk 400.jpg
 
Depends...If it is going to be a rider, and a good price, buy it and make it into a rider. If you want it to be original it might not be what you want. Me, I would make it a rider. Plastic fenders, Mag swingarm, modern bars, you know the drill. Not being original removes some stress on what to do for me. Grab a handful of throttle and point it and have fun. I have a 75 wr250 and would love to have a 400 in my frame.
 
75 400 WR is a six speed and I see the bike has a Mikuni conversion and Works Performance shocks. Awesome stuff.
 
6 speed, I did'nt know. Thanks, working on a deal . Edit, spoke to the owner he says it's a 5 speed. Edit Fri.AM, on my way to get it, 12 hour drive
 
Got the 400 and a 76' 360 WR jumped in my pickup while in Wa. Here's the air cleaner that was in the 360, looks backwards to me?? It can't be right can it? The 360 needs a little TLC, been sitting a long time. Got it running but need to jet the carb. Must be the wrong R fender with the gap in the seat, it also rubs the tire when suspension is compressed
husky 360 & 400 004.JPGhusky 360 & 400 005.JPGhusky 360 & 400 007.JPGhusky 360 & 400 009.JPG
 
yea its backwards. Kind of suffocates the engine that way. The 360 is in good condition. Has it been restored or refurbished or it original?
 
It's been refreshed a while back, guess I'd better get a new AC before trying to jet it. It's running fat on the main maybe the way they had the AC is the cause. Just got back today, took the carb apart and blew the jets and passages, drained old gas then it started 2nd kick. Glad to hear it run because I bought it not running so that's always a gamble. Shifts good, went on a 10 mile ride only fault I can find is blubbering on the main and tire rubbing the fender. Took a look at the reeds they were OK, changed tranny oil etc. Maybe put new fenders if I can find the correct ones, they have been painted and it's flaking off, otherwise just clean up, lube cables etc.
 
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