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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New to the forum and new to Husky.

Matt Cummings

Matt Cummings

Husqvarna
B Class
Hello everybody,

My name is Matthew and I hail from sunny Florida. As of Monday night I am now a proud owner of a Husqvarna.
Bought a 1972 WR250 H. Mikkola edition.
In desperate need of restoration but nearly complete. Only missing the compression release and the kill switch, maybe a head light.
Due to the fact the bike was an antique before I was born I'm gonna need lots of help and have tons of questions.
I'm open to any and all suggestions so let me know what's on you're mind
I'm also looking into all the sweet bike bing that are must haves. If you know of something tell me about it!
I plan on racing vintage motocross and have the bike ARHMA legal.
Tonight I'm gonna take a hundred "before" pictures and post a few here till then here's a teaser.
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Original Front Fender Was Damaged And Replaced With A Plastic One. No Idea What Brand It Is, Just As Old As The Bike. And Please Excuse Every Word Being Capitalized. My Phone Isn't Liking This Forum Lol.
 
Im pretty sure I see the outline of the Preston Petty logo on there.....thats almost as classic as the rest of the bike. Hard to believe the rear fender didnt get eaten in a backflip at some point.
 
I know the early 80's Huskys better than the Early 70's. I assume that the Engine cases are magnisium, and if so they fall victum to gut rot. Look under the bike and see how bad the Frame rails have been smashed, its nice when they still look good. They can be a chalange to repair, but it can be done. As far as gut rot, wile your under the bike there could be a hole rotted all the way threw the Main Cases under the Crank. Just because there is not, dosn't mean everything is well. If the Motor turns well its a good sign that the bearings are not rusted up, and that there hasn't been condesation in the bottom end. These two are probably the two worst stumbling blocks of a restoration, and I have learned the hard way. There is an amazing amount of parts avalable for these bikes, and some very helpful people on this sight to help You along.
 
1982 XC 430 said:
I know the early 80's Huskys better than the Early 70's. I assume that the Engine cases are magnisium, and if so they fall victum to gut rot. Look under the bike and see how bad the Frame rails have been smashed, its nice when they still look good. They can be a chalange to repair, but it can be done. As far as gut rot, wile your under the bike there could be a hole rotted all the way threw the Main Cases under the Crank. Just because there is not, dosn't mean everything is well. If the Motor turns well its a good sign that the bearings are not rusted up, and that there hasn't been condesation in the bottom end. These two are probably the two worst stumbling blocks of a restoration, and I have learned the hard way. There is an amazing amount of parts avalable for these bikes, and some very helpful people on this sight to help You along.
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After reading this I decided to stick my head under the bike. Looked great to me. Gave the kick starter a few hits good compression but not great. Have the bike two swift kicks and it fired. Immediately went into death rev. With no kill switch I had to pull the coil. Felt like Eduard Delacroix for a few seconds. Wow not a way to start a day haha!
Anybody know the writing for the kill switch? Which kind works? I really need one.

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