• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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 single shock 430 is now on its way to its new home

Looks goods Maybe I ride it a while, before I tear it all done and rebuild it LOL
 
Yes on the way! first water-cooled husky too. Looking at another 500 too from a member on this site.

Not sure I need it but we all know about it. One ( maybe I mean 4 ) huskies is not enough
 
i always liked the cr tank/shroud combo on these bikes. be aware the shrouds are unique to that tank...as opposed to the xc/wr tank. its shorter and a little narrower. if i have an all day ride i swap the xc tank on but i almost always run the cr setup. take care of those!

you have other 430s, so im sure you are familiar with how far you have to deviate from book spec to get them to run their best.
of course its a matter of taste, but since this is your first ss swede, you might really like the way they handle. i found once the rear spring is set for your weight, the rest of the bike really comes together and they are a great chassis. almost all of the stability the earlier bikes have but a better handler in my opinion. im 6'2, so i really like the seat on these things!
 
What's a matter Gary, you run out of 430 aircooled CR to rebuild? :D

Nice rare bike, learn to short shift it, cause if it's like my 86 400, it shakes like a paint mixer when rev'd .

Mine would loosen the head bolts all the time til, I learned to NOT rev it, and use it smooth power :)
 
justintendo said:
i always liked the cr tank/shroud combo on these bikes. be aware the shrouds are unique to that tank...as opposed to the xc/wr tank. its shorter and a little narrower. if i have an all day ride i swap the xc tank on but i almost always run the cr setup. take care of those!

you have other 430s, so im sure you are familiar with how far you have to deviate from book spec to get them to run their best.
of course its a matter of taste, but since this is your first ss swede, you might really like the way they handle. i found once the rear spring is set for your weight, the rest of the bike really comes together and they are a great chassis. almost all of the stability the earlier bikes have but a better handler in my opinion. im 6'2, so i really like the seat on these things!
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So does the same seat fit both tanks fine ?
 
ruwfo said:
What's a matter Gary, you run out of 430 aircooled CR to rebuild? :D

Nice rare bike, learn to short shift it, cause if it's like my 86 400, it shakes like a paint mixer when rev'd .

Mine would loosen the head bolts all the time til, I learned to NOT rev it, and use it smooth power :)
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The 87 430 engine has a lighter con rod to minimize the vibrations that were so prevalent on the earlier 400 engines.
 
I love mine! Been a great bike had it since the early 90s. Have another one I'm going to redo.
 

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I love your CR as well Photoguy. Neither my 87 or 88 vibrate too bad. They are by no means "electric like" or like either 250 jap bikes we have. They have very powerful mid range power. The jap bikes aren't as forgiving on a limited rider like myself......the 430 is just easy to go fast on comfortably.P7130554.JPG
 
Trust me collecting huskys is worse than potato chips. I had 25 bikes with 15 running. At 14 bikes the misses said no more in a short time I was up to 25 plus tons of parts. I don’t have to feed them everyday nor clean up after them lol. I’d rebuild the engine go thru the rest of the bike, run them then park them and go to the next. The cr390 was my main ride.
 
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