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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

AND SO IT BEGINS! MY 86 XC 400 BASKET CASE ASSEMBLY

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RickyDZero

Husqvarna
AA Class
I bought a 86 xc 400 late summer. This bike was a real basket case. All in boxes and completely torn apart. 1st, 2nd and 3rd gears and shifting forks all wore out. Plus idler gear broken. It looks like the in side of this machine was used as a hammer. Every bolt, nut and washer has been either replace or clean to look brand new. I have spent countless hours stripping paint, sanding , polishing and repainting. The engine has been rebuilt, seals, bearings ect. I got the transmission on e-bay. It came out of an 87 430 and is in excellent condition. All new plastics, seat cover, handle bars and other mis. item's. Oh yeah a brand new FMF silencer. I know the deal no pics it did not happen. so pics will be taken as process of assembly happens. Stay tuned!
 
Did you make the stay arm for the floating rear brake? I noticed the front mount appears coincident to the brake pedal pivot. That was a point of contention in another thread about rear brakes.
 
How bout now
 

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is this an XC or CR?
has a brake arm tab for a CR
does the swingarm have an XC tab?
the CR swingarm does not have one as the brake backing floats
 
2premo said:
is this an XC or CR?
has a brake arm tab for a CR
does the swingarm have an XC tab?
the CR swingarm does not have one as the brake backing floats
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It cant be a CR. Unless someone put this 400 motor in a CR frame. I will check frame ID.
The brake system is a non-floating.
 
spend the extra $22.00 on an ACERBIS NOST front fender. that late model 510 ft.fender will look so out of place once mounted. rest of bike is coming along nicely. good luck with your resto. your gonna LOVE the motor.
 
Sorry guys it has been a long time. Been out of the loop dealing with my health. Infections in both my feet and a loss of a toe (not the big one)
has kept me side lined for quite some time. Now that the Doc says I can ride in a couple of weeks. I thought I would get you all caught up
on the progress of my 86 XC 400. Well its done. Here are some pics. Not bad for my first complete restore. I had to remind myself over and over
this is a rider not a show bike!


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