• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Like how they packaging original bearings now.

Let's put ktm bag over the cagiva package.
 

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Sheet! Look at the pistons I took out of the two fitties!

They look bored!

Now I know why the one was smokin a lot ****************************************!
 

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Well took and assemble bottom end of 390 and my crank is rubbing on bottom of crank web.
I did not realize it was so close to case on a 390. So back apart it comes. It is just slight but I don't want any thing getting sucked up to top end. It was pitted some and filled in pits with JB Marine weld then KBS with two coats. So gonna have to take it down some more for room. I can see where it rubs a little.
Still like that KBS. Where can you use paint and take a rag with thinner over it to remove some black VHT overspray and not even affect it.

OBD, I found a nice Elsinore but not sure if want to tackle nother bike.
 
dartyppyt said:
Well took and assemble bottom end of 390 and my crank is rubbing on bottom of crank web.
I did not realize it was so close to case on a 390. So back apart it comes. It is just slight but I don't want any thing getting sucked up to top end. It was pitted some and filled in pits with JB Marine weld then KBS with two coats. So gonna have to take it down some more for room. I can see where it rubs a little.
Still like that KBS. Where can you use paint and take a rag with thinner over it to remove some black VHT overspray and not even affect it.

OBD, I found a nice Elsinore but not sure if want to tackle nother bike.
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dont do it darren...if you do any more bikes after these...
it needs to be a liquid cooled swede...
 
Yeah you prob right! Like to have 87 Cr 430 again!

She said I could go get the El See Snore! You guys know that drill****************************************!!!

But I snore enough as is!
 
The work coming out of your modest shop is impressive. As much as I enjoy watching your thread & progress, I can't wait to see the collection all lined up.
 
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Ya know you do....but don't. I'll get jealous cause yours will no doubt be nicer...lol.
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Funny! Think need to sleep on it more!

My friend had one, back in day. Pro Circuit did his motor and sure Mitch ported it. That thing hauled!

But they sure have a loud distinct sound.

Husky's have there own as well!

At least she said a ok and I don't have to sneak it in in pieces.

She still comes back and asks me how I have 6!

Said, bought like the house when I see something new in corner. Oh, that's been there for 6 months.

Bull!
 
So far so good! Looks like the internal cr ignition is going to clear the ignition cover. Not by much though!
Going to have to get adapter plate machined to go from the smaller 390 case mounts to the Electex mount.
I cut up an old Motoplat one, so I can use at machinist for stencil.
 

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This is backing plate of cr ignition with old Motoplat over it. Looks like pretty easy conversion.
Electrex has 3 threaded holes in back plate that line up perfect with my case holes.
So those can be drilled out for bolts.
Then machinist just has to cut ears off and machine plate to size.
From there then I can adjust the thickness but looks like I only have to shave 3mm off back.

The blue marked on Elextrex plate is what need removed. Then holes drilled out to 5mm and counter sunk on front of plate. I need to sink this ignition total of 5mm to make flywheel and pick up coil align.
2mm I will gain once plate is machine to size so it fits down in recessed case area.
Then still off 3mm. This plate is 10mm thick so is just have to have 3mm machined off the back.
 

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dartyppyt said:
Funny! Think need to sleep on it more!

My friend had one, back in day. Pro Circuit did his motor and sure Mitch ported it. That thing hauled!

But they sure have a loud distinct sound.

Husky's have there own as well!

At least she said a ok and I don't have to sneak it in in pieces.

She still comes back and asks me how I have 6!

Said, bought like the house when I see something new in corner. Oh, that's been there for 6 months.

Bull!
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the ladies must get formal training on that! my wife and my mates wife do the exact same thing!
 
loony888 said:
the ladies must get formal training on that! my wife and my mates wife do the exact same thing!
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I work with a lot of gals, they tell each other how to pull stuff off, so we don't notice.

I still think it is hilarious that brought the one in piece by piece.

When I bought it. I asked guy if I could take it apart. He said fine.

Then when she came back. I'd say, hey look at the engine I got cheap.
 
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