• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st Question on 2 smoke pipe restoration

dartyppyt

dartyppyt

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Does anyone have a tip in order to restore a pipe back to the original, natural, un -painted blueing like look, that will preserve it from rusting?

The hard part has been done already, rust removed, dents removed, wire wheeled, etc...

Heat? Treat/cool it with motor oil? Treat with heat and grease?

Not sure on how they do this?

The other option is to paint it but a kinda want the natural steel look.
 
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Thanx guys, I do like the natural steel finish. I will experiment both ways, Clear or WD40 this weekend. First, I need to go back with the torch and put some of the heat marks back in it. I do have some good automotive clear coat left as well.
 
Check with a local metal plating/coating/chroming/anodizing shop, I'm sure there is some type of plating that is put on the factory pipes to prevent rusting/corrosion that will be more reliable then WD-40 or oil and likely look better as well
 
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