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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

82.5 CR 500 Ready to go!

sorry, i posted two photos that are the same. I swear my 13 year old can figure this stuff out but not me...
 
Veri-nizzzze. Those pics are going in my files for my own resto! Do you mind sharing what you did for the black, gold, silver parts in detail? Got my cases stripped and ready to be re-finished, and frame will be ready in a couple days. Been gathering info on colors.
 
Picklito said:
Veri-nizzzze. Those pics are going in my files for my own resto! Do you mind sharing what you did for the black, gold, silver parts in detail? Got my cases stripped and ready to be re-finished, and frame will be ready in a couple days. Been gathering info on colors.
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You better pick up the pace!
 
All of the hardware has new zinc coating. The silver is actually Ford silver for the modern vehicals. The powder coat on the frame is Sparkle Silver, same as the Ford silver in color and just about a dead on match for the original Husky color. The rims are reanodized originals, color is light Gold. Black on the hubs is Dupli color DE1635 semi-gloss black, clutch cover is DE1634 low-gloss black. Shock bodies are ACE hardware 17023 Copper spray paint. Fork legs are ACE 17010 Gold. If the center cases have to be refinished spray them with the paint then go and get some REAL automotive clear in a can with an extra catalist already with the can. Otherwise the paint will come right off the first time the carb overflows. Best parts source: Phil, husqvarna-parts.com. Phil actually has the origianal Ohlins paint for the shock bodies.
 
Phil rocks and your bike flows with the quality of the stuff he provides. 44 mm. When i was a kid I wanted to put one on anything....a 125 with a 44mm on it would run like poop but be the talk of the pits
 
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