• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ok my son was back at my shop last night with several of his riding buddies.

We put my black 500 bottom end in and also the silver concept bottom end in.

Everyone agreed that this took the cake. Nobody liked the black cases. Their Opinion is to do my rear spring, in the bright yellow tank colors. Paint my hubs in the silver with the blue rims. This is with my beed blasted 430 top end on, that needs sent out to be bored. But I have a twist to the top end, I think you will like. Just not done yet.

Here is also a black cylinder I could do?
 

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No worries.....just enjoying following your builds. Besides, these bikes are all you, for you. I have a hard time leaving or restoring any of my bikes to stock. I like to upgrade or "over restore". I got one bike that will be back to stock when I'm done...my Dad's '67 Honda dream.
 
oldbikedude said:
No worries.....just enjoying following your builds. Besides, these bikes are all you, for you. I have a hard time leaving or restoring any of my bikes to stock. I like to upgrade or "over restore". I got one bike that will be back to stock when I'm done...my Dad's '67 Honda dream.
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I agree totally. Most of them are going back to original, except for two.

This 83 is one that when you wheel the thing out of the trailer, someone says: Wtf is that?

The concept I am trying to pull off, is an 83 that looks more up to date modernish.

The plan is to throw what I can at it.

Head is going to look like an old Honda Cr porcupine head with a mohawk.
Probably going to settle on polishing it.
Pipe? I may build a cone pipe? Either gonna blue it or do it in nickel?
Silencer is an Answer that I cut to make a shorty. It gets polished with maybe engraved Husky emblem.
Cylinder gets ported and squished to run race gas.
Air box gets polished.
Might have guy make me an aluminum shifter tip anodized in blue.
Swing arm is getting chromed.
Rear sprocket gets anodized blue.
Chain is a metallic blue one.
I have an idea for a case saver that not only attaches to engine lugs but also the frame via two holes. It will get polished.
I have an old fender brace that gets polished.
All plastic and swing arm gets modern custom graphics.
Cables prob silver.
Carb hoses are bright blue.
Rims are blue anodized and may do rim decals I silver and blue, with Husky logo's?
Hubs? I polished front but think they will look better silver and logos highlighted yellow, like engine.
I wanted to install a dry break system in fuel tank but there is not enough room.
Sure wish I could find a kicker rubber in blue, but I do have a plan.

So this kinda sums it up!

Maybe 30 years down road. Some kid will try to reproduce it! Or after I'm gone, parts will show up somewhere and everyone will say that was Ol Typpy's bike! Ah, think I know who is going to end up with it!
 
Next up for Auction is a new installed, then removed, 1983 CR 250 seat cover!

I paid $60 for it. Yes I installed it then removed it. Still excellent condition but do try to line up my staple holes.

It is very very good quality, with black piping.

Here is deal! I will mail it to you, just reimburse me the postage fees.

Like to find a good home for it, someone that truly needs it and will put it to good use!

Pm me your address and it's on a first come first serve basis!

I prob won't be able to mail it till after first year.

SEAT COVER IS GONE!
 

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Well if I get tired of building these pieces of Old worn out Iron!

I have found a new use for them!

Husqvarna Wind Chimes!

They ping just like the cylinders do!
 

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Looks great so far, I really like the silver engine. Personally, I would have liked to see some non husky, sp onshore logos, pro circuit, bel-Ray, tire sponsor etc.

You did exactly what I was thinking about with the shock bodies. What sort of plating is that, zinc, nickel?
 
Here are the hubs! Guess we just saved them from being Wind chimes!

I am assuming that the hubs and brake plates are magnesium or some alloy. As soon as you polish them they tarnish right away. So that's why I shot them in urethane.

I think they would be good wind chimes but I don't thinnnnnk Mrs Typpy would like them!
 

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Looks great so far, I really like the silver engine. Personally, I would have liked to see some non husky, sp onshore logos, pro circuit, bel-Ray, tire sponsor etc.

You did exactly what I was thinking about with the shock bodies. What sort of plating is that, zinc, nickel?
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The shock tubes were brand new from Ohlins. I would guess by the looks, it is zinc.

Ok you are 100 % correct. Did not think about all the sponsor logo stuff. So I will them in the front fender, rear fender and side plate graphics. Yep, your right, cause we had those stickers all over the bikes.

I think that silver engine would look good in a Red Tank Husky with red detail or a Black and Silver tank Husky with black detail?

Thanx on compliment!

Gonna get up real early in morning and head to Indy to pick up all my rims.

Going to drop rear sprocket off and magura levers for blue anodizing.

When I get back, I can put front hub on and set the blue rim around it.
 
Ok, back from Indy!

Rims look pretty darn good. I am happy as heck! I can see some real faint stuff that nobody can ever tell. But I can look into a paint job and see flaws that no one ever notices.

Around my welds, I need to try, a product called block heat. There is a real faint discoloration, but I have couple sets of originals that have that as well. Anodizer told me that if I can focus closer to weld area and control heat. Stuff comes out perfect. Ok lesson just learned. On the blue edges where tire gets covered up on the lip. It is real shiney and one lil area around a nipple hole. He said best thing to do is to send rims first so be stripped.
Then bring them back to weld and polish. Then ship back.
He said for all it's worth and labor using Easy Off, still not guaranteed. The shiney area is from old anodizing still in aluminum. But I got to say that versus what one Sun rim costs, versus what I paid for 8. It's hard to beat if you do some elbow grease!

Here are the Silver, Gold Nordisk match, and the Blue!

Also, wanted to show you the weld discoloration on the original rims as well. In the picture, you can clearly see the weld line. What doesn't show in pic, Is where heat from weld is discolored out slightly about 1/4 to 1/2 inch from weld. I would like to eliminate that, if I can block the heat.

I also learned a trick. If rims are brushed, that hides it!

That's prob why some original rims I have are brushed.

I am going to do couple more sets, to see if i can get them 100 % perfect!

Once I do that, I will list step by step instructions, to get perfect results.

Ok, how bout some advice? You can see hubs and brake plates in same silver as engine. Do I do logos in the yellow or blue on the brake backing plates? That is all I am doing to hubs. Keep in mind, blue rims get stainless spokes and silver/ blue/ yellow Husqvarna rim decals.

Dang blue rims is making that bike pop now!
 

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Here is color match versus a good original set. I say he is spot on with color.

Starting from left to right. First two rims are new anodized. Third is good unfaded original rim.
 

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Wow, they look great! Gold matches really well. I'd say blue on the backing plate logo. I think yellow might be lost, plus you already have the yellow logo on the lower leg. Just my 2 cents. No matter what you do she'll be bangin'.
 
Great match for the gold. Really I believe all your prep work and polishing made the real difference They look new!
 
By the way Darin, do you have a paint code for the 82 430CR tank you shot? I want to finish mine over the winter.
 
GaryM said:
Great match for the gold. Really I believe all your prep work and polishing made the real difference They look new!
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they probably look better than new, you can see a lot of grind marks on original nordisk if you really look.
 
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