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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

ok i bought the farm on this one

Bigbill

Bigbill

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I had a great deal offered on a complete 82 430 engine she appears like she'll run but I'll go thru it over the winter. I need to hit the junk yard for a donor frame. I guess I'm on the way to a number 2 vintage husqvarna. I couldn't pass up this deal for the complete motor from ignition to clutch cover.
She needs a pipe which I found I got luck twice. Here I go building them again. But the second time around will be more fun.

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Bill, I have an 82 xc frame in pretty good condition sitting INSIDE my barn and I'm in Newburgh NY. not to far from you. and a slew of other Husky goodies I'd like to move. let me know
 
I have (3)1982 frames. XC frame is premo, came covered in shoddy red paint. The WR frame from the 250WR needs swingarm pivot repair , and the stray is in decent shape but needs an abrasion on subframe tube repaired. None are for sale as of yet but not saying that will not change
 
I may have to wait to find a CR motocross frame to put the 430 in. I guess the first thing is to split the case on the 430 and install new crank seals and crank bearings plus the tranny bearings too. Refresh the piston, piston ring and bore the cylinder. Then she will be ready for a frame.

I may check a used bike yard first to see if one of the bikes I parted with has been scraped by now.
 
I wouldnt use a CR frame, the floating rear brake is problematic, because it pivots on the axle as the wheel moves through the travel the bushing gets worn out and eventually the backing plate binds up and explodes itself. Because of this new CR backing plates are very hard to find, and having ridden both, the floating brake is absolutely zero advantage in performance over the XC/WR non-floating brake.The XC has identical geometry to the CR and has the better non-floating rear brake. Of course, it would be easy to make a new bushing for the CR backing plate, but why go to the trouble since its not an advantage?
 
Your right I need a xc/wr roller or non running parts bike.

The 430 pipe arrived today. The 430 engine should be here soon.
 
If you find a CR frame, you could put an XC/WR swing arm on it which are easy to find, that will open up your frame options while you are looking. The great thing about Huskys is so many years can swap parts. A few years ago I set up my '82 250XC for a 5'2" woman. I put 9" travel forks off my '83 175WR and a swing arm off a '79 WR with 14.5" shocks. It lowered the seat height to about 34" but was balanced perfectly.
 
Kartwheel68 said:
I wouldnt use a CR frame, the floating rear brake is problematic, because it pivots on the axle as the wheel moves through the travel the bushing gets worn out and eventually the backing plate binds up and explodes itself. Because of this new CR backing plates are very hard to find, and having ridden both, the floating brake is absolutely zero advantage in performance over the XC/WR non-floating brake.The XC has identical geometry to the CR and has the better non-floating rear brake. Of course, it would be easy to make a new bushing for the CR backing plate, but why go to the trouble since its not an advantage?
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so keep an eye on the bush ? i wouldnt really call it problematic . or a high wear area
 
Its problematic in the sense that the CR rear brake plate is hard to find new. Yes, you can just keep an eye on it and you can make a bushing for the CR brake plate, but since Bill doesnt have a frame yet, better to get an XC/WR and not have to deal with it.
 
i agree kartwheel, and it seems that rod that runs the along the swinger like to get all bent up as well. then there are lil bushes in that as well..i have a few thrashed cr backing plates as well.
 
The 430 complete engine / tranny has arrived, the eagle has landed. No time to open it up, I'll do that tomorrow.
 
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