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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Seat Repair

luvwoods

luvwoods

Husqvarna
AA Class
Does anyone have experience with either replacing seat covers themselves or sending the whole seat out for repair?

My '84 WR250 seat cover is starting to tear from old-age and it needs to be replaced. This is the year the seat cover was blue except for the small white area at the back with the Husky logo and the front did not go up over the tank (that started in '85). My concerns with doing it myself are 1) never did one myself and b) I know they look like staples, but I think there's more to it than that.

I've seen a lead or two here (Guts Racing & Hi-Flite) and I'm wondering if it's best to leave this to the pros or if it's a fairly simple (ha) type of repair. What about some of the Husky specific repair/resto businesses?

Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
I've tried to install seat covers before with a rather low success rate. For one thing you need the kind of staple gun that upholstery installers use that has an extended head on it. The other problem is that it can be hard to pull that stretchy material just right and not get wrinkles in it. Some people are good at this but I'm not. I just sent my seat base to Gutsracing and had them install my foam and cover that I ordered form them.
 
I've done them myself & it's fairly simple. For a step-by-step go to Vintage Husky's site, there's a short "how-to" or you can buy a completed seat from him.
 
hi, I do all my own re-cover jobs with an ARROW staple gun with (8mm-5/16) staples. warm the cover up in the dryer for a few minutes to make it more plyable and take your time and dont be cheap with the staples. 1/2 hour or 2 beers and its all done.
 
Looks like most everything is here already. Heat the cover, Start at the front or back. Heavy duty staple gun and short SS staples. I will add to to have a bar and hammer to set the staples that did not set completely with the gun at the end of the project. Use a utility knife if needed to trim the extra fabric off. Yes, two beers does make it a lot more fun or less frustrating anyway.:thumbsup:

Regards,
PC
 
I bought a pneumatic staple gun from Harbor Freight Tools for $17.99 when I did my last seat cover. It really made the difference between a PITA job and a walk in the park.
 
any beer from europe in a green bottle. european bike , european beer. doesnt get any better than that.
 
Leftcoast leftkicker;42252 said:
nah, Foster's "depth charge" cans is the only way to go on a hot summer day/eve.
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Never heard them called "depth charge" cans. We always call them "oil cans." Course you have to be old enough to remember when oil did come in cans for that to make any sense. :doh:
 
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