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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Magnificent 7

Hey what did they run you? They like $50-65 over here. So that like x6.
Be nice to win lottery and just go get what I need at once.
Well least I'm with most and am bike poor!
I just still need boring, ignitions, wheel anodizing, spokes, rubber, chains, sprockets, bearings, etc...
Now all that x6, so I have to watch my fist ful of dollars.
Sheet, might have to finish them in the nursing home!
 
Yeah, but they not gonna be finished too quickly. It also gives me something to do all winter. I'm one of those guys that can't sit still.

? Does anyone know last year they used One Piece Magura Perch? One bolt instead of the two bolt Split perch?
 
my 95 has a one-piece magura on it! (yes i know i put it there. i couldnt resist.) love those old maguras
 
Here is all the plating done.

Couldn't resist on throwing a shifter and kicker on for a look.

Heck, I got enough kickers to kick a field goal!

Plater wires all the small parts together so he does not lose anything.
Heck trying to get all parts unwired was like tangled up Christmas tree lights!

Speaking of Christmas! Think momma knows what to get me! Husky Paaaarrrrtttttsssss!
 

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This what hub with the Husky logo Is gonna look like that I highlighted in red enamel.
Looks good with brake cam arm I had replated back to original chrome.
 

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i think all that replating is going to pay off when those bikes are back together and really set them off. they should hold up much better if you ride em as well.
 
justintendo said:
i think all that replating is going to pay off when those bikes are back together and really set them off. they should hold up much better if you ride em as well.
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Thanx,

I know it is a long process but I want these things as close to showroom condition as possible.
 
Next up is taking the rest of these apart.
Two sets are ok and just need rims cleaned, hubs painted and relaced with new spokes.
One set of rims need a good easy off oven cleaner strip. Sanded then polished.
I've got 3 sets done except for polishing.
Then all 4 sets go to anodizer.
3 sets in gold and 1 set in silver.

Talk about the wheel of fortune! Where is Vanna White?
 

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Here are the rim anodizing samples I got.

That blue might look good on the 83!

Match this gold up with original set of Nordisk and it looks like perfect match.

Think I will do the 82 Cr 250 in the silver.
 

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that gold does look close..didnt the later 80s use a bit darker gold than the early 80s? or maybe those are just faded? the blue would be very nice on a milker
 
Ok, we do the milk truck in blue rims, based off your suggestions.

Think down the road on the red 82 and 83 milk truck. Maybe I can have the levers and rear sprockets done?

So 83 levers blue and rear sprocket?

82 red levers and red rear sprocket?

Then I will do rest of rear sprockets all in gold.
 
Ever take a 1912 Barum tire off rim with rim protector, hard as a rock in 10 degree weather?
Then had to take out 50 million rusted out stuck rim pins. Two snapped off so had to drill rim on good side and drive out with punch! Gotta come out cause it will mess up the anodizing. So have to weld holes back up!
Oh, that was beech! Almost broke out the sawzall!

Now, easy off oven cleaner to get anodizing off and steel wool. The bead blast rims, sand, sand, sand and polish.
 
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Doesn't the bead blasting add more sanding to the job?
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Not really, I use glass beads. I could prob soda blast them but that takes while. I have to get down in the old spoke holes and get everything clean. I sand with air sanders then go all way down with pads @ 1500 grit that I spray soapy water on.

Then polish. So I can go kinda fast and most of these rims have nicks in them to remove as well.
 
Here is half an hour with easy off oven cleaner. Heavy duty stuff.
All I did was rub spot off with steel wool.

Stuff is good to get spooge off around the cylinder where exhaust manifold is.
 

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