• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Thanx guys! I have to redo the 430 clutch cover today.

I put VHT Clear over the magnesium and it has gone south. So let me see what I can come up with to match the head I just did.

The remaining two cylinders are ready at Hall's so prob grab them Friday and get a new tank of gas for tig welder.
 
Truck said -14 this am. Brrrrrrr! That's cold! I think some spots in Montana, the windchill is -45. Probably even colder up in Canada........
 
Ignition cover made it @ 325 degrees for an hour.

Thought sure as heck it would melt.

Now to get the rest of the colors on.
 

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Been working on the 5 Hunter biker piper!

4 hours so far and am only down to the motor mounts.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

Meaning my brain to the pipe angles. This one here has been a brain twister because the cylinder sits up higher.

So if you are off 1/4 inch up top by exhaust outlet then you are an inch off at motor mounts.

But I did get my shipment of the rest of my parts. Tomorrow gotta go to Halls to pick up my 430/125 cylinders.

This is what I feel like today!
 

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Ok, I actually got the other half tig'd together up to top of cylinder.

Just have to measure adjoining section of pipe, cut and spot weld it together.

But then I have to make the top and rearrange everything before the permanent welds.
 

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Thanx guys! Yeah this one been a mind boggler. So many factors to figure in. I have to miss the motormounts, the bottom of frame, then the cylinder head, miss the spark plug, but then be able to leave enough room to wiggle pipe back off.......
This one just tougher because the exhaust port sits up higher. If my calculations are right. This pipe should be a torque monster.
 
Ended up redoing the ignition side again. I did not like the way it looked. I wanted more of a gradual bend in my cuts and fitment.

I still have to go back and joint the connections that are spot welded, for a perfect fit, and need to work on the top some more. Worst part is over and hope to finish tomorrow or Sunday.
 

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