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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Just some pics of new but Delayed build of Cr 430

GaryM

GaryM

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just thought I would share. Humm may like the black rims better than I thought.

Just to let you know - learning to paint tanks - its not easy. That the third paint effort on that tank alone. Darin helped on feedback and painting knowledge.

Oh - going to built out my spare parts. More bikes coming this spring. Going to sell some
and get some more Husky bikes out on the track. Why hoard ? IMG_2302.jpg

Remember - the Cafe Husky guys here helped me build these bikes with all thats shared.
 

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I'm not a fan of black rims either Gary, but they do look good on that bike. Nice build, the bike looks awesome.
 
Looks awesome Gary! Fine job! You are becoming quite the master!

I been building my modern Husky race bike this winter and can't show it off quite yet. But she sweet!

Below is the custom painted helmet I did that goes with my redone modern race bike.

Rims look great and tank! Ha! Whole darn tooten bike! Meaning Gary's!
 

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What type of paint did you use on your helmet? It looks really good! This is something I have been wanting to do for a while now but I keep hearing about how it can weaken the helmet and this poor old head doesn't need any more beating!

Sorry for the hijack Gary.
 
ajcmbrown said:
What type of paint did you use on your helmet? It looks really good! This is something I have been wanting to do for a while now but I keep hearing about how it can weaken the helmet and this poor old head doesn't need any more beating!

Sorry for the hijack Gary.
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I use single stage (base and clear combined) automotive eurethane. Sprayed it in two stages. Your ok cause Troy Lee paints tons. But I use good paint so doesn't chip and come off.

Yeah! We better cool it on Hi Jacking Gary or he gonna roost us some day!
 
Looks good Gary, I like the black rims whats the difference between the fancy new gold rims they don't match the factory either.
 
Gary,

Looks great, like the black rims myself. Finally getting the '84 500 back together, I think the black rims would look great on the '84. You coming to Rio for AHRMA race in November ? Bring that 430 beauty ! Take care--Rhett
 
Gary,
Looks awesome, now bring them to Unadilla , so it can get dirty :applause:.


Husky John
 
Thanks for comments. Here is sample of the anodizing color for gold. It just is the hardest to match. Of course rims were painted gold through 81.

This gold on these rims are closer to Sun rim gold.

The steps to prepare rims - well acid dip at anodizer, than sanding nicks out, blending the low areas, polishing the AL, sometime have to re dip in acid
then pulling spokes straight and true to the imperfections of rim.

Heres the gold we came up with Please comment on this gold. Spent a lot of time in
the anodizer shop. Now using Acid Wash at home on tanks and other parts.
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Here is process Gary sheading light on:

Stripped from anodizer

Polished at home

Back from anodizer

Lacing/truing
 

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Take a look at front brake stay arm as example and the tank. Cant see base metal of tank through paint of course. In painting the Aluminum tanks found incredible amounts of black coming from the metal.

The exposed aluminum panel is just the hardest to deal with. (Learned from anodizers is the following) !

Carbon it is - what? Thought it was just in steel !

It just plain can turn that freshly painting white striping black as you get the tank painted and just before you clear it, you go to remove the oxidation on that exposed panel and it all turns it black. Well found out it really just part of aluminum. The Al has real high carbon molecules and (boron) its its surface and as soon as you rub, touch, or sand this comes out. Thats why the anodizers dip in acid wash before anodizing. The surface is etched. The carbon is sealed. Still have to scratch it up to get the clear to stick.


(Or not as I learned the hard way !!!)

Thats also the secret to Vapor Blasting aluminum. The blast is cushioned by water , blasting material seals the surface and it will not Oxidize for quite some time.

Also look at the front brake stay. It not really polished. just dipped in Acid and a few wipes with a pad and you have a new look to metal.

Oh the cylinder and carb are Vapor Blasted, which really is a water and blast material shot at high pressure with water cushioning the shot material.

Working in future on new clear ceramics on the plastic, and tanks. it will be as hard as ceramic and real resistant to scratching. New big thing coming.

Oh tried some cadmium on a few parts here - did not always work see mark on pipe mount on frame. Cad was not even and was not even on any of the parts
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really nice Gary, I like the gold-black-red-silver combo.

Nobody seems to tart up the milkers very much....hmmmm...:thinking:

don't judge me..haha..
 
As I recall some of my previous metrology and metallurgical training the black component of aluminum is likely bauxite which is a component of aluminum structure. Aluminum welding is tricky because it is critical not to overheat the welding process.

For plastic fenders and side panels I have found that Rustoleum for plastic did a near OEM finish on the fenders I painted on my 84 250WR a couple years ago, For the plastic 84 - 86 tanks I have I will be using PPG Deltron and clear over detailing like stripes and decals

Very nice work Gary!
 
I've been toying with ways to "tart up" my milk white Huskys. The blue / white color scheme with blue seat is challenging to work with. I've got some ideas but it needs to be tastefully done.

Gary, I have an original unused gold Husky Sun 17" rear rim from 82 if you're interested.
 
Bigbill said:
New Husqvarna helmets on eBay I got mine.
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Nice work I'd hate to get them dirty when they took so much work to restore them. I try to keep them orginal as possible even if I don't paint them. My gas tanks with dents are a problem right now.
 
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