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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

petcock for mid 70s gas tank

I tried the sanding trick and it worked. Gasket started out .140" thick and I sanded it down to .110" worked smooth but not too easy. Definitely doesn't feel like the lever will break. Hopefully it doesn't leak . Thanks Crash!
 
I found out that four hole washer for the gas shut off valve the one from a 72/77 Suzuki ts 185 can be carefully inserted into the husqvarna valve. I repaired the leaky valves this way. I installed the Suzuki four hole washer in the husky valve body then I used the husky lever to push it level by working it while pushing in on it. It worked awesome.

We started off riding a Suzuki first then we went to the huskys. The four hole gas washer was the first thing we replaced on all the suzuki ts bikes we has rescued.

I still have the Suzuki four hole rubber in my parts cabinet after all these years of not riding.

My point is never, never throw anything away.
 
you are correct, it pays to hold on to stuff. making the right call as to what to keep or pitch is tough
 
I've become a hoarder. I'm into old cub cadets, IH cub tractors too. I have most of the new and used parts for everything. Same thing I did with the huskys in the past. So many hobbies and so little time.

But never, ever throw away parts.
 
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