• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Well didn't get too much accomplished tonight!
I have a whole new respect for air grinders. My disc came apart and was instant schrapnel!
Hit me in the ribs and the other part flew the opposite way and cut my air hose in half. Dang, had to lift my shirt up and thought it cut me but not. That left a mark!
So maybe quit while I'm a head and go up and sit on new furniture! Ha! That comes Tuesday and that blows that night. Have to help arrange it 50 x!
Like the Red Green show! Might not be handsome any more but sure am handy!

Tippy out!
 
If you were as handy as Red Green, those machines you're building would be held together with duct tape. :rolleyes:
 
Luckily, no scratches. That disc nailed me in the ribs good! Think better look into something lil better than safety glasses, cause that disc probably, would of went through them.

Yeah, like those Old Red Green shows. I think the original ones were lil funnier? Maybe they were told to tone them down some? Duct tape stuff was pretty funny!

Well, got to give Mrs credit cause she is good with letting me restore stuff.

She has seen muscle cars, jeeps, blazers, etc... that were cut up and nothing but shells, then welded all back together.

Here is a blazer my son and I did together before he turned 16. Basically, we cut it all way down to two doors and the firewall. The more we cut the worse it got. This is pic right after we painted it. All new metal (Fenders, doors, quarter panels, rockers, whole floor,etc.... and we made the front/rear bumpers from scratch out of 4 inch well casing. Then we later put graphics on the sides but can't find the pic!

She saw these bikes when I brought them in one by one and prob thought? Oh gees! What did you drag in now?

She comes back from time to time and now comments on how nice they look.

Prob comes back to see if I'm still alive! So, I must not forget to let her get her stuff too!

She all excited bout her new furniture.


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that little grinder incident is known as a wake up call....protect your self from high speed spinning things that can go bang...cos they will
 
YUP, seen grinding, cutting, sanding discs disintegrate & caught pieces as well. Scary when it happens. It makes parts flying out of the grinder or polish wheels & shooting across the garage seem mild. :D
 
Yeah, wake up call for sure! That was close! Stopped and got good face shield plus going to use safety glasses under that.
I have had enough metal stick in my eyes that snuck under safety glasses.

Here is some progress! Think it's shaping up?

Ah, got to get air hose replaced tonight, so lil maint!

But you guys wait cause this gonna be heck of bike. I just can't get things done fast enough. But think you guys will like this one!
 

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I also have a mod I think I can pull off to get the vents back in the gas caps for the over flow vent hose.
I bought two cheap gas caps to work out my plan.
Hope weather cooperates over Christmas to New Years. Want to get paint job blown on this tank. Then things will start coming together!
Got the engine scheme figured out, shocks, swing arm, brake, shifter and hubs.
 
Looking for this bike to exceed my 08 Husky I built few years ago.
 

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Ok, got my vinyl gas tank stencils this am! So Sunday, looks like temps going to be 40 degrees and no rain!

So looks like I'm going to blow that paint job on the gas tank!
 
Here is the new brake lever in its cut out stage.

Pivot part is getting machine by friend of mine, with new brake stay.

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The design of the tank is taking from the old design and updating it more modern.

The Husky logo represents the end of a handle bar grip. The yellow represents your arm and hand, as it is on the grip.

So that is the meaning behind it.

Took me forever to bring that yellow forward past the Husky logo. Bet I layed that thing out 50 times.

I had it come down to a point, then rounded to go with logo.

To top it all off! Decal guy cut my vinyl in reverse, then the paint guy gave me wrong type of yellow paint. He gave me single stage urethane instead of base coat. So had to do blue, then white, mask whole tank, then shoot yellow, then clear.



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