• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Got these grommets long time ago to make gas tank ones. I just stack washer high enough over them. Then I cut them off even to length with razor blade.

I got couple new kicker bumpers but keeps throwing kicker back into the case.
So did lil messing around and cut these off. All I had to do is cut small V in it where the case web was. In order for it to sit flush. These keep kicker off my case and paint. Also, sticks out the same.
 

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Great kicker pivot with splines is too big for hole in kicker.
Figures! The old one that is cracked and welded up fits.
Guess this gets visit to machinist as well.
 

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Here is how I keep my trannies stored in zip loc bags. I zip tie everything together.
After I un assemble an engine.

Even zip tie washer to crank.
 

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nothing like a nice light flywheel dont want that 390 to not rip your arms off:thumbsup: is that what came on 390s [CR]?

As far as I know from parts fische.

The 79/80 Cr 390 used the external moto plat ignition.
This one above is an internal Electrex modern version. I converted it over switching crank ends and modifying the mounting plate.

So, if my calculations, past experience, doing this on other bikes. This baby should come off the line quick and rev.
I also messed with the porting on this.
External good for single track flywheel inertia. Internal = let's fly! But might be more to stall in the tight stuff.
 

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Now I just need mail man to deliver the stuff to get clutch cover on and kicker!
 

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Ok changing this 390 up a bit to turn out as nice as the 125 but using a reverse affect on it.
 

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That's all folks!

Even got the CR 390 decal on!

U know what CR stands for?

Now you SEE R!

Now she gone!
 

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Thanx Ruwfo!

This is how I prob gonna do 430 cyl and Head.

This is just rough! I will get decals made to shoot husky logos on better.

Just kinda quick cut them out of masking tape.

This is color of tank.

Might put a band of gold on through cyl and head that is on existing aluminum.

Then do the burgundy.
 

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See this is kinda what thinking?

Do the aluminum straps in gold then do the logos and lettering in burgundy?
 

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I only have 2 cents worth of opinion . I would only go with one H on the sides at top. I would want to match
Huskies use of one H with each Husqvarna. If I had access to a Cad mill , I would recess the H in the cylinder at the top. then paint inside the recessed area for bling

I really like the look of bringing back the burgundy - its on Heikki world championship bikes.
 
I tried logo on top side part of cylinder. It even looked out of place.

So I tried this?
 

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