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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Not many sleeps left now until this comes home

No speedo. Has been removed along with the drive unit. I have all the parts to fit a speedo to it should the urge take me.
 
Feeling like a little kid on Christmas eve? I know the feeling I want to ride and as I looked outside it was snowing. We still have 12" of snow cover in patches.
Snow ugggggg.
 
any history? im trying to find out if my bike was a a4de bike. supposedly only 4 came into the country in 84....shed any light on this ?
 
Nice bike. Only four bikes were imported? To ride or put it away? Those early 510's were bullet proof?
 
Checked my Yamaha 6 Day Series [ enduro series held here in QLD Australia in the early 80's ] results from early 85 and it looks like Brian Fleming was riding one at the Connondale round.
Won his class.
I'm sure I saw one at the Kogan round in 84 or 85.
Went like a stabbed rat.
 
It's an import Surprize. Don't know its history but think it originated in US. Hasn't done much work based on exterior original condition. Need to inspect motor to know for sure.

The early 510 motors were far from bullet proof as I understand it. Diabolical ignition overheating issues and the low level mounting of the crank RAL reed did not help reliability. People who treated them like a Honda or Yamaha (change oil once per year!) soon had a cactus engine.

Only 8 sleeps left!
 
EVERY early 510 from our dealership came back in pieces. usually with con rod issues and broken cases. my buddy waited 2 years for a connecting rod. right when the transfer from sweden to italy was happening.
 
Well it is finally finished. Just because a find looks OK and runs doesn't mean it's not totally rooted! Main issues were head needed total reco - valves, springs, guides and seals all cactus. Needed a rebore. Shocks needed rebuild. Luckily I had a NOS tank available. At least it's got spark so didn't need a new ignition.....yet!

Startup scheduled for tomorrow...can't wait :-)


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You can put valves, seals, guides from 510 telc , isnt'it ?
The parts # of TE and TELC are different but if I remember you can put one for the other.
You can also find aftermarket valves.
 
I need some nice stickers like yours, mine are pooh. wherdyergetem???

you've got the good ign, shouldn't be a problem. my carb is cactus and I need to look inside the donk to sort some maintenance issues and tidy it up...the 83 - 84s had the melt on start up ign from what I can tell. no bolts on the outside is the key
 
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