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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

It was a good Husky day!

Skoalman

Skoalman

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just got back from looking at another 85 Husqvarna WR 400 (twin shock)...The guy had it listed locally on Craigslist for $500.00...The owner, a 72 year old retired firefighter, said it ran fine and that he last rode it at the Michaux Dual Sport event on August 9, and that he had been running enduro and DS on it for the past 8 years. Well it was a bit out of the way, but I just couldn't resist and had to go take a look...And yeah, it's a little tired looking, and has KX front forks and a disk brake, but all in all it's a good solid bike...Started after several kicks and reved out and idled just fine...All the lights work, no leaks from anyhwere...The part that really makes this good is that he is throwing in the following items:

Extra engine (turns over)
Extra Frame
Extra shocks (I think he said that)
3 motoplat ignitions
set of forks
set of wheels
Enduro roll chart
manuals
and other undisclosed Husky items

I'll pick it up Saturday morning and begin the teardown just soon as I get home...I've never done this, but I'm going to redo this bike on a budget: $450.00...I've got enough 83-85 twinshock WR parts that I know I can pull this resurrection of without going over budget.

I'll post the before and after pics as I go along.

Damn, it was good day!:cheers:
 
Skoal,
That is one heck of a day! Congrats. New bike in the garage w/ spare parts is always a good. Post up your before and afters. Always cool to see what others are doing.
Rick
 
Like you said the other day

Like you said the other day


"It's a good time to buy if you've got the money. There are alot of great deals out there -- and it's no longer a seller's market."

Plenty of winter projects going cheap :applause:
 
with all the extra parts sound like when this one is done your going to have to get another..Kind of looks like you have a problem the first step is admitting it.. Looking forward to seeing the progress...
 
Well boys, the bike his home and safe and sound...What a great day...Cleaned off some of the gunk for the strip down tomorrow...Put a fresh plug in it and fired up on the second kick...I think I'll be able to definitely resurrect this bike for under $450...A little skoalman love and some elbow grease and I'll make her presentable at the very least...I'll take some pics tomorrow...One more thing, you're not going to believe this -- Right before I left the guy said "wait a minute I gotta go get something outta the house for ya'..." When he came back he presented me with a box, and in it was a brand new upper and lower ignition kit, flywheel, stator, key, coil, and a manual...I couldn't believe it -- and yes, it's mini 6 motoplat ignition system for a 400...good stuff man, good stuff!
 
1983XC175;57059 said:
Skoalman, good for you.. got to get the XC175 home now. sitting in pittsburg.
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Thanks man and welcome aboard. Congrat's to you on that 175 -- that's a rare one and you'll have to get it out some of the AHRMA Nat'l events for sure.
 
1983XC175;57059 said:
Skoalman, good for you.. got to get the XC175 home now. sitting in pittsburg.
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Is that same one that was on C list and guy had you tube links to it. Siad it was 83 WR but yellow seated (being an XC)????
Had listed for like $1000??

Joe
 
Not sure, was listed for $1000.00 . It was in Pittsburgh. Had a friend pick it up Saturday night for me. Hope to have it home to start resto in a few weeks.Want to get it ready for next season and ISDT reunion ride.
 
Skoalman, just talked to Jemco. He is going to build me a pipe and silencer for the 175. Probly get the bitch ported also.
Bill
 
the before...

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Motor, forks, carb, wheels & tires are done. Tne new plastic (a little different than the stock OEM) has been purchased. Side plate and tank decals are on there way...The frame is waiting to be stripped and painted...stay tuned
 

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I already checked it and got pics -- it was an an 85 WRX with disc brakes -- believe I was going to jump on it...I'm all about the twin shocks
 

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