• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Here is the old school fender bracket. Modified it some to fit this bike and polished her up.
 

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Here is my first 430 shock painted up!

Went with the 430 tank color for top. Kept the new tube plating but cleared over it.

Since the shocks were built by Drew Smith @ WER Off-road Suspension.

He included a nice decal I installed!

That Drew does superb work!

Now I can get my other shock back on the 500 Hunter!
 

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Trying to figure out, skid plate or some type of engine case guards. The skid plate that I really want to make. It does not allow enough room in between pipe and frame.

So I opted for making my own case guards.

I have made several today and this is the one I am settling for.

Ones like you see on newer 4 strokes, kinda like the RMZ's.

It bolts over top of the regular engine mount. Still allows access to hole that ignition wire goes through.

Only issue is that your two motor mount bolts closer to engine go in first.

Then these bolt on. Going to make the clutch cover side one tomorrow.

This one still needs detailed and polished.

Here is it just messing around if I want it like blue anodizing?
 

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They look very nice! Is that made from stainless steel? Looking closer does not look like it. I think polished stainless would look excellent.
 
I'd put more weld on the inside with a few gussets and grind a clean radious on the outside. I'd do away with the slots for the mounting screws. On the holes on the side plate I'd make them little horizontal slots maybe angled.
 
adam6402 said:
They look very nice! Is that made from stainless steel? Looking closer does not look like it. I think polished stainless would look excellent.
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6061 aluminum. Yes if I was to manufacture them. Would go stainless or billet and incorporate the engine mount.
 
Bigbill said:
I'd put more weld on the inside with a few gussets and grind a clean radious on the outside. I'd do away with the slots for the mounting screws. On the holes on the side plate I'd make them little horizontal slots maybe angled.
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Bill,

I left the slots in between bolts cause not sure yet but might weld the two together?

Not sure yet cause I want to still have access to bolts?
 
I would like one myself, actually 3 or 4 to cover the pack of keepers:)

Also you should make the endcap removable to make easier to repack. Pop rivets work well there
 
Here is clutch cover side.

Think I will leave well enough alone other than maybe welding them some day to engine mounting brackets.
 

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84scrambler said:
Are those guards to protect the covers or the paint !!! lol
I like the raw alum. better.
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Both, paint and impact. Both are welded inside and out. I had to adjust one and only way to move it in vise is with 10lb hammer.

In order for me to make the radius, I had to put it in my press, to bend the metal.

Have to remember that the pipe on both sides, the way it is designed will take a hit.
 
Here they are cleaned up and in blue anodized paint/clear.

Not sure yet to polish or leave blue? Got to get head back, polish it. Get swing arm on, shock springs painted, rear brake done and do a chain case saver.
Shifter is chrome and kicker. So gonna have to see how much shiney stuff ads up?

You guys can help me when it all starts going together?
 

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I think the best protection for the header out of the engine is a skid plate with a full curl up lip over it with drain holes for after water crossings and such
 
Here are shock springs after spraying.

They will be same yellow as colors on tank and highlighted yellow on covers.

Leaving the bodies blue with the blue anodized reservoirs.
 

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Anything special in the paint to stop it from cracking under flexing?
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On the springs, i originally sprayed them white with Valspar, tractor enamel. You know, I had heck of a time blasting that paint off. For years, I have used this Valspar or Majik, tractor enamel. It is oil based, with excellent results, on shock springs. You have to use the thinner/hardner with it.

On these springs, I sand blasted them, used SEM self etching primer. Wanted a good bite! Then sprayed them with single stage automotive urethane. Urethane does flex some. But you can add a flex additive that they use on flex able bumpers.

I still don't think that paint is as good as it was with out lead in it.

What is nice! My auto paint store upgraded and can now put any thing I need in a spray can.
 
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