• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 a custom yellow 83 rear fender and custom 82 white side plates coming.

I ordered black number plate backgrounds in Fox.

Tomorrow I'll get the fox head on the polished silencer.
 
I just got a 76 360WR frame with Bultaco triple clamps and leading axle forks. The frame had a nut welded to the top frame tube with a weld blow thru next to the nut. The frame is badly rusted so I am thinking about building something on the other 76 frame that I was going to cut up for tubing. Still thing about what to do with it all. I am intrigued with the 77 Frontera fork as I have a test on the 77 360 Frontera and the forks were rated well by Cycle World.?

What do you think?
 
I am going to switch gears and use the rusted frame for a tubing donor. I can use it to reduce the rake and restore the rear loop on the 78 OR frame I have in reserve..
I do have a Pitster Pro GPX 125 engine with a 145 overbore cylinder and ported head. One fleeting thought was to put small wheels on it and stuff in that engine. The customer waffled on my price for repair so he walked away from it. It has quite a few spares with it.
 
Here is one of Andy's HVA Factory silencers. I spent couple hours polishing it up.

So now I will add the Fox logo to it.
 

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Doin my brake backing plates in a paint called brush stainless. It's the beed blast, paint and bake stuff like rest. I'm doing that because they tarnish over night in their bare metal or polished state.
Those are Andy's HVA Factory clutch and ignition covers. I take the castings down and polished the centers. It is some work but worth it.
 

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Progress?

Rear fender and side plates on their way.

I think she gonna turn out sharp?

Yep! Black rims .........

Preston Petty fender is embossed so can't put decal on front tip!
 

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This is what aluminum swingarm will look like on it. Just have to modify it and send out to heat treat.


So here are choices of rims......

Silver

Gold

Black
 

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