• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

What a work of art****************************************

A lot of work goes into these bikes when they are restored.

Couple of queries:

I was really surprised with the lack of support / flanging for swingarm / frame mount point when I stripped mine back.

Did you remove the frame loop under motor or was it a CR frame ??

My airbox on my 83 is also smashed at rear where hinge point is for the clamp for foam air cleaner, but not badly damaged that it needs a totally new airbox. I painted mine but did not use adhesion improvers, (hope it survives). I am going to repair mine with 3mm HDPE sheet and also use this as protection as well on external side and just rivet and or bolt in place. I will post some photos of the bike when it returns from powder coaters.

Has anybody considered using HDPE, it is readily able to be welded and cut very easily and I use on all manner of things for the bikes. This is the same stuff the chain sliders are made of.

thoughts comments ???
 
Down Under XC said:
What a work of art

A lot of work goes into these bikes when they are restored.

Couple of queries:

I was really surprised with the lack of support / flanging for swingarm / frame mount point when I stripped mine back.

Did you remove the frame loop under motor or was it a CR frame ??

My airbox on my 83 is also smashed at rear where hinge point is for the clamp for foam air cleaner, but not badly damaged that it needs a totally new airbox. I painted mine but did not use adhesion improvers, (hope it survives). I am going to repair mine with 3mm HDPE sheet and also use this as protection as well on external side and just rivet and or bolt in place. I will post some photos of the bike when it returns from powder coaters.

Has anybody considered using HDPE, it is readily able to be welded and cut very easily and I use on all manner of things for the bikes. This is the same stuff the chain sliders are made of.

thoughts comments ???
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Mine was Cr so did not have to remove loop.

Wish I could make a bunch of these air boxes up out of aluminum, but they are a pain to do.

Also cut your top sides to let more air in, cause they were restrictive.
 
Ok new ignitions showed up for both two fitties!

Fire in da hole!

Electrex so that means I won't be a kickback jack !

Got good deal on these ignitions from GaryM.

He been buying them in bulk and has some good pricing.

Also, emailed Ride Pg. Side plate graphics suppose to be done next week and shipped.
 

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darty, since you are skilled with the pen and camera you should do a lil install thread of the electrex on one of the bikes...im sure it would be helpful to many here, and those of us thinking of getting one in the future could check out the sweet pics!
 
Old Bike Dude?

Give you a beer if you stick your finger in spark plug cap, while I kick it to see if it sparks !

If your hair stands up, we got sparky!

If your hair stays flat, back to instructions!
 

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dartyppyt said:
Old Bike Dude?

Give you a beer if you stick your finger in spark plug cap, while I kick it to see if it sparks !

If your hair stands up, we got sparky!

If your hair stays flat, back to instructions!
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no, we have similar avatars i guess..and my bikes are dirtier
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his stripes look like the real deal and mine are clearly made from cut strips of numberplate background, lol​
 
Yeah! What is up with all these 87 avatars?

Now I need one! But mine was a cr!
 

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justintendo said:
darty, since you are skilled with the pen and camera you should do a lil install thread of the electrex on one of the bikes...im sure it would be helpful to many here, and those of us thinking of getting one in the future could check out the sweet pics!
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Ya know! That is an excellent idea!

If someone doesn't beat me to it, I will!
 
I'm afraid my magnetic personality would induce a higher voltage & fry the new ignitions. That or the plate in my head would make all the husky steel attracted to me. :D Justin, I didn't mean to jack your avatar.....just join in on the 87-88 LC fun. :thumbsup: Here, I was envious of your graffics cause mine are just colored electrical tape. SHHH, I don't want my secret out. :doh: Darren...mine is CR-esque aka leggy.
 
There used to be real nice wide pinstriping tape that I used to use and colors were spot on.
Stuff was thick as well.
 
all kidding aside the numberplate background has worked well, is super durable and 1 blue and 1 yellow pack will make quite a few stripes
 
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