• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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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Thanx Gary,

Got couple more sets to run through. So now I have a lot more education on the whole process. From letting them strip them, the welding and blocking the heat.

I will get these done first thing this spring.

Will say these guys are great to work with!
 
justintendo said:
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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I am pretty sure those marks are a brushed appearance and also hides weld blending.

Think that was meant to be that way. Plush it dulls the shine.

Guy could reproduce that but that would be a pain to do.
 
Here are the hubs. Old Bike Dude, did them in blue like you suggested.

Worked on welding up airbox. I still can't weld the sides up where I indented it to clear shocks. Have to wait till get swing arm back. I do like the air box!
 

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I need a steel end for the silencer that came on the 400WRX. I have not decided between turning a steel cone on my lathe or welding sheetmetal together yet.
 
Here is the fit. All left to do is drill hole in the end, clean up the insert and weld insert in the end cap.

That thing was like welding diet coke can.
 

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jimspac said:
I need a steel end for the silencer that came on the 400WRX. I have not decided between turning a steel cone on my lathe or welding sheetmetal together yet.
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You can get the cones already made out of company in california.

Just cut and weld together.

I will try to get web address for you tomorrow.
 
Thank you Darin, very nice and helpful site. May even be able to build an expansion chamber for the 83 430WR I am putting together
 
jimspac said:
Thank you Darin, very nice and helpful site. May even be able to build an expansion chamber for the 83 430WR I am putting together
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You should be able to get most parts. I am gonna get the parts here to build a cone pipe.

I think the rest you can do local if you know a guy with a good pipe bender at a muffler shop.
 
Here is silencer.

I engraved a Husky logo on it and in layed blue in the engraving to make it stand out.

Got a ding in it but it is under the side plate. Logo is angled same as side plate and centered between side plate and end of silencer.

Still got to clear over the blue.
 

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Great post, your motivating everyone to do restorations on the old Swedish iron. Freaking awesome paint "custom art work" on the husky gas tanks. I timed my restorations to be completed on super bowl Sunday's. One ear on the game while we turned wrenches. Around the end of the game we gassed and oiled it up. By 10:30/11:00pm there was fire in the hole and she was rippin up the neighborhood. Sometimes it was around 12am. The neighbors loved me.
Every super bowl Sunday a restored husqvarna was brought back to life.
If I don't do one this year on time the next year's super bowl it will happen with another one. Being off the husky grid for 13 years I'm back. It's the most fun we can have with our clothes on. Happy New Year, bigbill
 
Big Bill!

Thank you! And thank you for the motivation!

Just something about these ol gals, I think we all have a soft spot for.

Every day I kick myself for getting rid of the old ones. But here is my chance to bring back some memories. Kids are all grown. Now I don't have to take a back seat, cause the kids always came first.

I know I'm going lil over board. But these things are like a favorite muzzle loader that you have to pry out of our hands. I just want these in good shape and enjoy them, while I can.

Just like all of you have done.

So Happy New Year Husky Brothers!
 
Thinking about hand guards.

I like the Cycra ones.

Ignore what I have on there and just trying out the Cycra bracket. They fit real good. I stuck these old Husky ones on as kinda a concept.

Ignore the decals as well and thinking about getting these? Probably white, blue and yellow?
 

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