• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

NAUTO (New Auto) 430

speedyauto

speedyauto

Husqvarna
A Class
There's a video on page 2.
For anyone who would like to see the finished bike checkout the latest set of pics I've put up (page2), it's been out in the mud, done a few hill climbs & ripped up my mates farm tracks.
Old school 2STROKE power with new bike handling & brakes.....
Finding the right place to ride in southern Sydney isn't easy, as most will know I have to travel a couple of hours but it will be worth it
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Just for anyone interested I have a spare frame & swing arm from an 04 Husky CR 250 & an 07 WR 250 thats running & rideable but needs some TLC, going cheap.
 
Well today I went & rode my new toy & WOW, I love it.

It handles great, goes beautifully & I'm one happy auto owner.The brakes are a treat & it flows from corner to corner on single trail, I'm still adapting to the way it picks up speed from a corner & then free wheels into the next, pretty sure I used more than my share of brake pads today. I'm also thinking of fitting my steering damper as it's a little skitish on rough downhills but I'm not sure if that's because the engine is a 60 mm further forward because it's longer or the suspension isn't set up properly but time & persistance will tell.
It does have a few niggles, like me getting a proper starting technique as the foot peg is in a different spot to the old frame & interfears with a staight kick as well as having to find something to stand on to start it as the height of the kick start is out of reach when on flat ground now I'm 5'10" so I'm not on the short side but longer legs would be nice, the cooling system might not be up to the job as when the going gets a little tight or stopped on a hill (operator error) it starts to over heat from the water pump housing, I need to work out how to seal it better (I have an alloy pump housing)& see if I can make the cooling system more effient for slow running(bigger radiators or thermo fan). The easiest is the suspension that needs to be set up for the additional weight of the engine & my beer barrel gut.
I also plan on sending the engine to one of Austarlia's best auto tuners to extract some more power & bomb proof the transmission.
It's going to be my secondary bike to ride as these things are money pits to maintain but it will be ridden.
Happy trails all & if your in Oz & see me out there come & have look up close.

Speedy.:banana:
 
Well I sent the motor away for some port work & I get it back in a couple of days(just a bit excited). I'll get the jetting right & then I hope to get some video footage to put up for all too see.
On another front I got my self a Husky CR 500 to play with which will keep me honest for awhile.
Speedy:cheers:
 
Who is thr engine bloke,I am also in Sydney and have a 420.Just got it on Historic plates.Good option for well less than $100 a year for rego.BTW great job on the mods
 
The guy who did my engine is Paul Rooney, who is a Husky auto specialist.
Paul is in northern Nsw, if you want his details Pm me.
 
speedyauto said:
Just for anyone interested I have a spare frame & swing arm from an 04 Husky CR 250 & an 07 WR 250 thats running & rideable but needs some TLC, going cheap.
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Just checking if you would still have your 07 wr 250 motor kicking around or is it gone ? I have a 04 that i managed to get a gut full of water and put about a 5mm bend in the rod.
 
wooddee said:
Just checking if you would still have your 07 wr 250 motor kicking around or is it gone ? I have a 04 that i managed to get a gut full of water and put about a 5mm bend in the rod.
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It's in my cousin's gokart, I could ask him if he'd sell but I think you'd be looking at around $1500.
Let me know if you want me to ask.
 
Wow wonderfuild job!!

One question though as I'm guessing you're planning on riding this quite a bit. Aren't you worried about availability of the clutches? I know you mentioned you fixed your own and what not in the past but to do all that work every 500 miles is quite a bit. I ride atleast 500 miles a year, I don't know how much you ride but a clutch every year can get expensive.

Either way, great job it looks sweet!
 
speedyauto said:
The guy who did my engine is Paul Rooney, who is a Husky auto specialist.
Paul is in northern Nsw, if you want his details Pm me.
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Paul still doing some Husky stuff is a joy to hear.

Husky used to send bikes to Paul and he would play with them and send them back.
Before they were released.:oldman:
Hell of a nice guy as well.

To stop the auto's overheating guy's [ some on this forum ] used to fit a right hand KTM radiator [ a lot longer ] and a overflow bottle.
Your exhaust looks to stop that idea.
 
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