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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Pedcock repairs

Bigbill

Bigbill

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I was into the Suzuki TS 185's '71/'72 before the husqvarnas. The old Suzuki had plenty of leaky peacocks. I had the replacement rubber washer left in stock. I had one leaky husky pedcock. I found out I could squeeze and stretch the Suzuki rubber pedcock washer into the husky pedcock body. Once I had it in place I used the lever to burnish it into the washer to form the seal. I wanted it perfect. I assembled it and it worked perfect. The Suzuki dealer luckily had these old parts in stock.
 
Bill thanks for sharing this info. Found this TS 185 petcock packing on Ebay, does this look like the one that you got to work in your Husky petcock?

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Yes. You can push it into place then use the lever/pan to push it in more then burnish into place so she seals. The valve is a tad tighter to turn but she works.
 
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