• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Dang! Those are some treasures! Oh post what you want on this thread!
I view it as everyone's thread!
I think we all agree that we like looking at these old gems! Please! Post more!

What part of country you from?
 
Called PBI sprockets.

They sent me two real nice decals with two sprocket orders.

I fit blue one here on swing arm but other decal is red.

So talked to them and they sending me another blue one for other side.
 

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Here my latest to finish up.

Just picked up from chromer yesterday am.

There were 2 bullseye dents with gouges in them on this side of tank, in chrome area.

Plus two triple clamp dents in front which is normal.

I probably have 14 hours in this baby just working these two dents out.

I finally got them close but couldn't get the creases all way out. So I cut the tank and picked them to surface so I could file them even and sand.

Wa la!

Came out real good!

I will post pics after it is painted!
 

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Here is tank after it has been prepped for tank sealer.

First step is to use KBS Klean

Then I use a couple of rusted nuts on wire to adgetate it in tank.

Then when I use the KBS rust blast.

I leave it in there till nuts look like this. I slosh tank around for about an hour so nuts rub the metal inside.

When nuts look like this. I know it is done inside.

I will let this dry now and tonight I will pour in the tank sealer to coat inside of tank, then empty excess out.

I also put coat on filler neck and on outside to keep ethanol fuel from getting under paint and lifting.

I also brush coat on outside where I welded so it double seals. Even though I pressure check tank, since cut this one. I still go through many steps for safety. Then I also use light coat of JB Marine weld. Prob overkill but don't want fuel leak above a hot engine.
 

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Nice work , Here is a tip that may help someone out . Not that you need one Darty, instead of a couple of nuts wired together I always use a small chain to clean out tanks and you can always get it back out in one piece.
 
So talk to me about an 87 ish 510?

I know where one is sitting and it runs.

Not seen a pic yet to determine exact year.

Think it has 1000 miles on it and is plated.
 
Hmmm, I never had one but those old 4strokes are cool. You know all about the chassis already. The plate makes it even cooler.
 
Hmmm? Might have to change title that sayz 1 of 7! Ha!

Looks like I might have to warm up to momma! I know for fact that I can't take this one apart and sneek it in like last one!

She been back in shop counting! She said where did extra one come from? I said had enough parts to build 6th one!

Guess this guy has been riding some to work.

We shall see if looks good, runs good, and price is good!

Look what came in mail for 83 250! Ha! Like the yellow ones too!
 

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dartyppyt said:
So talk to me about an 87 ish 510?
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yes please...

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I'd LOVE to have a air cooled one like this...

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Sounds good!

Why all you cool guys live clear across world !

We could have a blast for some vintage trail riding!
 
there is 3 main vintage riding groups in Oz now and a fourth on the cards. cheap organised fun.

There is a pre 90 and pre 80 hare and hound racing scene commencing but most guys doing the vintage riding cant be stuffed trying to get their bikes up to competition specs and then flog it out in a 3 hr race only to have to spend a month chasing parts to get it going again. lot of pre 90 guys I suspect with kdx's, wr yamahas and xr's etc will come out of the woodwork for this one.

there is also a strong Vmx scene but that's motocrossers for you...

Check out the Hattah Desert race for a good viewing spectacle. anything with Toby Price in it...man is seriously quick on two wheels
 
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