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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

WTB: M8x80mm socket head and M8x75mm socket head

I don't understand what appears to be an angry response, but let me try to educate you. I'm looking for the correct bolts which I believe have a special dimension shoulder as they act as a pivot surface. Yes, if I just needed a fully threaded socket head, I would head down to Ace. And your caps lock is stuck on.:love:
 
If you can't find the correct bolts.

What I have done is to buy longer bolts with the correct or as close as possible unthreaded section on the bolt.

Then just cut the threaded section back to the length you need.

Cheers, Dave. :)
 
Tractor Supply used to have a nice variety of metric fasteners. The last few years I never find what I need at Tractor Supply and have better luck at my local Ace hardware store.
 
Make sure your using the correct hardness in the fasteners. Don't use soft bolts. As a kid of 8yo I put soft bolts in my JC HIGGINS bicycle in the springer front fork. I got 52 stitches because of my lack of knowledge. Be careful.
 
Yes hardness is another reason to try and use the correct original fasteners. Thanks for the other info I have located the correct bolts.
 
I purchased those plastic cabinets with draws. I filled then up with 6mm, 8mm hex head bolts so far. The 6mm I have up to the gas tank and front fender, chain tensioner and the nylon lock nuts.
 
I got a small bucket of 8mm-1.25 fasteners that have several grades of hardness from a programmer I used to work with. He said to take the whole container as he had more than he would ever use. I ended up with hex and Allen head bolts, nut, and washers
 
years ago I had a kdx250 which I flogged to buy a new WR lc 85 250. the kwaka dealer used to give it to me big time about the "old" husky bike with twin shox, waay behind the times etc. one day he was looking at it in the ute (no one else about...) and said "love these bikes...hand full of nuts and bolts is all you need...not like that jappo crap with 500 fasteners to hold the taillight on"...im still giggling about that.
 
suprize said:
years ago I had a kdx250 which I flogged to buy a new WR lc 85 250. the kwaka dealer used to give it to me big time about the "old" husky bike with twin shox, waay behind the times etc. one day he was looking at it in the ute (no one else about...) and said "love these bikes...hand full of nuts and bolts is all you need...not like that jappo crap with 500 fasteners to hold the taillight on"...im still giggling about that.
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hes right..you can break the whole bike down with a handful of tools...half of it with only 3 or 4...
 
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