Drew Smith
Husqvarna
AA Class
Love the Mad Max movies thanks for sharing the trailer.
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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
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Husqvarna
justintendo
klotz super techniplate junkie
the colors look right on
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Thanx! I try to scan my colors for a match.
Here is my chain wear pad and tensioner roller. Have to go tomorrow and pick up parts at the platers.
Here are also some parts I started cutting out for the aluminum air box. I went a lot lighter on the metal this time.
So hopefully, get it all tack welded and fitted into the frame. Going to leave the top portion designed to allow more air flow through the filter.
Like to get the engine cases all painted up over Christmas break in the new colors but we will see. Got quite a few things on other bikes to catch up on.
Here is my chain wear pad and tensioner roller. Have to go tomorrow and pick up parts at the platers.
Here are also some parts I started cutting out for the aluminum air box. I went a lot lighter on the metal this time.
So hopefully, get it all tack welded and fitted into the frame. Going to leave the top portion designed to allow more air flow through the filter.
Like to get the engine cases all painted up over Christmas break in the new colors but we will see. Got quite a few things on other bikes to catch up on.
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justintendo
klotz super techniplate junkie
cant wait to see how this airbox looks.
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Here it is, for right now. Dropping little cause it is not bolted in.
Clears the shocks, and top aligns nice with frame webbing. There is mod in Husky bulletins to open the top sides. So this should do the trick. The stock box was suppose to be like ram air. But it restricted air flow.
All left to do is get bottom on, make filter gizmo up top for filter holder, and weld some of the sides up.
Make some fancy gussets.
Then go back and grind everything up good, put some Purty welds on and sand and polish it up. What I might do after it's polished, is to bead blast a husky logo on rear then clear coat whole box.
But that is Friday! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! May visions of Husky parts dance in your heads!
Tippy out!
Clears the shocks, and top aligns nice with frame webbing. There is mod in Husky bulletins to open the top sides. So this should do the trick. The stock box was suppose to be like ram air. But it restricted air flow.
All left to do is get bottom on, make filter gizmo up top for filter holder, and weld some of the sides up.
Make some fancy gussets.
Then go back and grind everything up good, put some Purty welds on and sand and polish it up. What I might do after it's polished, is to bead blast a husky logo on rear then clear coat whole box.
But that is Friday! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! May visions of Husky parts dance in your heads!
Tippy out!
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dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Well! You couldn't of sent me a better Christmas present!
Thanx Drew!
Dang you do nice work!
I know where those Yellow WER Off-road decals are going!
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dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
All fabricated.
Filter and filter holder fit nice. I sloped the bottom so it drains to one end and will get my black duck bill valve in.
Will go back and grind up everything real nice then put some purty welds on it. Have to wait till I get my swing arm back, middle of January to make sure the shocks don't rub. I recessed it copying off the original but want to be 100 % sure.
All that tight non air flow stuff up top has been eliminated. Filter is easier to get in and out easier.
Would say it is the same weight as stock or if not just a little lighter.
You can see I have about 25 % more filter exposure. Prob just lil more than the Husky bulletin mod.
Filter and filter holder fit nice. I sloped the bottom so it drains to one end and will get my black duck bill valve in.
Will go back and grind up everything real nice then put some purty welds on it. Have to wait till I get my swing arm back, middle of January to make sure the shocks don't rub. I recessed it copying off the original but want to be 100 % sure.
All that tight non air flow stuff up top has been eliminated. Filter is easier to get in and out easier.
Would say it is the same weight as stock or if not just a little lighter.
You can see I have about 25 % more filter exposure. Prob just lil more than the Husky bulletin mod.
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dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
1st coat of single stage urethane on the engine for the 83.
Let cure for 3 weeks and gasoline should not effect it.
Used epoxy primer underneath for a good bite!
Was going to polish but cases had too many nicks in them.
I think your getting the picture now?
But wait till later today when I get the yellow on!
Let cure for 3 weeks and gasoline should not effect it.
Used epoxy primer underneath for a good bite!
Was going to polish but cases had too many nicks in them.
I think your getting the picture now?
But wait till later today when I get the yellow on!
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oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I love silver....but thats a bold move. I'm sure it'll be awesome in the end. I trust you. In case you were wondering....lol
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I think we are ok. Newer Huskies in white frame have silver engines. I put a set of black Un assembled
Cases in the frame and no go on the black.
