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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Refinishing black 1978 forks

Brian390

Brian390

Husqvarna
C Class
The paint on mine appears to be original, still in good shape but has some nicks and chips. I can smooth them out before repainting but that will take away from the factory rough finish. I was thinking of trying either one of those hammered rattle can finishes or even truck bed finish before the final coat of satin black. Just to make it similar to what it was, I know I can't replicate the factory finish. Has anyone tried this before and been happy (or unhappy) with the results?

Brian
 
The forks were only ever a rough(ish) casting. Don't try and make them something they are not.
All I did on my 78 black leg forks was to strip them. File out any bad lumps. Mask the bore and give it a light bead blast. Clean and re-mask the bore and paint with PJ1 satin black.
Leave it for a few days for the paint to dry and the solvent to evaporate.
I cooked mine gently in the oven for about 40 minutes. Job done.
I have found that when built up with the bike and a spray of duck oil, they look O.E.
 
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