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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

First Husky.....Help

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Tom Rood

Husqvarna
I just got my first husky but I am a little confused from what I've found. The guy I bought it from said it was a 390 wr with a 250 top end. Is this possible? It rips like no tomorrow I just want to put it back to original. Has a stainless tank and is about the tallest bike Ive ever see. I'm guessing the year to be mid 70's to 80. Also it looks as if there is an enduro package on it. Thanks for any help in advance.
 
It looks identical to the one you posted just no number plates or lights. It has wires for lights though. I will take some pictures and post them when I get home. My cylinder looks to be shorter too.
 
Or it may just be a 250 engine mounted in what was a 390WR frame. Engine number can confirm that.
 
for 250cc is a spacer in the crankcase for the small 250 crankshaft and the compression under the piston, maybe You have the whole 250cc engine installed ?
 
Jens Ries said:
390 body with a 250 cylinder and head is impossible ...
take some pictures also from details
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Ive seen this kinda thing on a LC 84 250CR with a LC 400WR bottom end and 4 base gaskets under the 250 barrel with a very trick exhaust which told me it probably was not the only one ever like that. Gives 282 cc to my calcs. Unfortunately bike non runner and in torrid condo, never got opportunity to feel what it does..
 
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