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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

83-WR430......shes up and running again

Panerai

Panerai

Husqvarna
AA Class
I bought this 430 about year and a half ago. It was not running at the time but a very complete bike. The previous owner said it was running great when he parked it but that was about 4 years ago at time of purchase. I tore the bike down and cleaned it up a bit. Rebuilt the forks as they were leaking, powder coated the frame, new seat cover, new chain and new plastic. I did not go into the engine, just a Carb rebuild, new plug and air filter. Finally got it mostly back together over the weekend. Fresh oil and fuel and a few kicks later she pops off. I can't believe how great it runs! Way too much fun. Just need to get it painted and the rest of the plastic back on to complete the project.

The first pics (blue frame) is what I brought home. The next 2 pics are as she is today.

husky 001.jpg Ebay 111 008.jpg Ebay 111 009.jpg
 
Huskydoggg said:
Sweet 430.
Most two-strokes are sensitive to stinger length on the exhaust, so I'm curious about the tail on the end of the spark arrestor. Looks like 2 inches was added. Anyone seen or tried this before?
Steve
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Thank you

I would be curious about this also....... I have plans to trim it down as I don't like the way it looks but I don't want to effect the way it runs either.
 
Look at the screen in there for sure. They were notorious for plugging up and killing the top end power. I drilled mine out to about double the size. I like the bars and mounts, what mounts did you use?
 
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