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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Round II - '72 450 Restoration
- Thread starter mike328
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I know the hubs that the '72 450 used, were the same hubs on other models. The akront lip rim was used until '75, so I'm thinking about the hubs in the years '72-'75 (correct me if I am wrong!)
I have emails out to bike boneyard, a call into Speed & Sport (he does hubs/wheels spokes)
My question; anyone know a source for GOOD used rear hub/brake backing plate for a '72 450?
I am thinking about using that Gun Kote on the fork legs & engine, has anyone tried this coating material?...comments?...Reverend?...you seen/tried this stuff?...
retro rocket
Husqvarna
AA Class
looking good ... Your brave ... it always seems to start with just a 'quick buff up' to 'rider' standard ... Which quickly turns into a $6 million NOS resto ... as they say I spent my money on wine, women and vintage Husqvarnas - the rest I wasted!
Since the 450 has very few Bufos.. I figure I might as well go all new bolts/nuts etc..
I'll be replating the bufos on the triple clamp/fork legs..but does anyone know if there is source for a "Bolt kit"?... I have seen & sourced the allen bolts...I am thinking about regular hex head bolts....anyone have a source
offyatindy
Husqvarna
A Class
If the bike runs, please ignore my comments. If it doesn't run, remember, an engine needs four things to run...fuel, spark, compression....and good bearings. Maybe 5 things if you count seals....6 things if you count.........
all kidding aside.. the engine has been pulled and sent to John LeFevre along with other parts.. I am muddling my way thru other issues.... I pulled the carb right away..wow ... that was thrashed too..
sent it off to BING... now on to the wheels...hubs..The wheels were "ok".. but decided the cost to straighten-weld (cracked) would be alot of work vs starting out with new (Blanks - undrilled) Akront - Ribbed rims. I ordered the rims from the UK.. I will probably have Woodys Wheel works drill my wheels & set them up.. Now the forks.... etc...LOL .. again ONE thing to make these things run and thats $$$$$
Here is the link: http://www.kgcoatings.com/protective-coatings-page-1/
Figure I would post since we all like bikes.
sorry about the poor quality took these with phone camera
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