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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

ID my Husky

I could do it all again if y'all want. I didn't get too far on it obviously. I rode it the one time I mentioned in that other thread then it died I got pissed yadayada anyway wore pics okIMG_20160709_161821042.jpg IMG_20160709_183812085.jpg
 

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so are you fixing this bike up or what? great machine, last of the swedes. my favorite chassis..
 
Well. Fixing it is the plan. I've got an itch to ride and I'm hopeful that I'll be able to scratch it with the husky. Least before Christmas
 
Thats a great starting point. Give it a proper cleaning, new seat cover & grips, clean the carb & airfilter (maybe get a new air filter if it needs it). Clean & lube the chain, new spark plug, and see how she goes.
 
Alright guys I've got it running again. But I'm curious about the radiator cap. It's got a 13lb cap on it. Is that right? I'm just trying to cover all my bases. Tia
 
ill run out and check some of my caps when i get home today..sometimes if they heat up, bad things happen or or its not the cap at fault. these engines dont really have a tendency to boil or anything tho.
 
NissanMike said:
Ok thanks. I'm just being paranoid, mostly because I don't wanna kill the bike. But that's good info
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in that case..there are some things to check..
flush coolant and replace with premixed coolant or distilled water/coolant. the magnesium likes to corrode. any signs of water in the transmission oil?
any play in the right side of crank? remove ignition cover and try moving flywheel straight up/down to check main bearing play.
the swinger pivot bearings dry out and crack the swingarm, also if there is looseness of the nut isnt tight, the play will develop in the engine case bushing there...bad..might already be loose there.
 
Hey I've been researching carb stuff. I have a 38mm mikuni with 410 main 40 idle 3rd clip on needle 2.5 slide. Is that good bad or indifferent?
 
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