• 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

More questions about finishes - '77 CR250

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Houredout401

Husqvarna
AA Class
First, thanks to all who have helped me get up to speed so far, I am making some good progress. A few more questions:

1. Lower steering head race was painted by P.O. - does anyone know the original finish on this piece? When I scrathed the paint off, the metal is very dark. I have a NOS upper race knurled collar that looks like a flat gun metal finish / black oxide - wondering if lower race was same thing?

2. Ill ask again on the brake pedal rod - painted or plated? Not the torque arm, the brake pedal rod. I saw some NOS on line that appear to have a zinc plated finish.

3. Airbox silver paint - was this the same color as frame - gloss or matte?

4. Kicker - I read a HuskyClub newsletter that had a feature on kickers. From what I can tell the '77 kicker could have had a black body shaft with a zinc plated swing bar? Parts diagrams show some dark shading on the kicker as well. Anyone have or seen a '77 with a black kicker body?
 
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