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Clubroom => Tech Talk => Topic started by: FAT-TOY on December 05, 2011, 10:24:32 pm
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This is a Husky build I completed earlier this year. When I purchased it about 12 months ago it was as you can see in the first photo a very ugly duckling and I think destined for land fill. After about 3 or 4 months and a lot of searching for parts it ended up owing me around $1600 and has turned into a handy bike and not so hard on the eye.
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac276/zane255/Husqvarna%201973%20%20250cc%20WR%20%20as%20purchased/Copyofhusky-1.jpg)
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac276/zane255/Husqvarna%201973%20%20250cc%20WR%20%20as%20purchased/husky1973002.jpg)
Frame powder coated.
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac276/zane255/Husqvarna%201973%20%20250cc%20WR%20%20as%20purchased/husky1973004.jpg)
Back to a roller, wheels rebuilt and polished.
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac276/zane255/Husqvarna%201973%20%20250cc%20WR%20%20as%20purchased/husky73009.jpg)
Motor finished, painted and back in the bike.
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac276/zane255/Husqvarna%201973%20%20250cc%20WR%20%20as%20purchased/husky73106.jpg)
Tank repainted and looking good.
(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac276/zane255/Husqvarna%201973%20%20250cc%20WR%20%20as%20purchased/husky1973250cc004.jpg)
The finished bike.
Have started on another Husky rebuild, this time a 1983 250CR will take some photos as I go and post in the new year.
Zane
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Top stuff Zane :o, great job, curious, as I am not husky savy, how are the chrome tank sections done?
Cheers Nob
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Nobby The tanks are chome plated all over but only polished around the knee rub section. When I paint a tank this section is masked and I use an etch primer to make sure I get a good key for the paint on the unpolished chrome.
Zane
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Looking good mate... you wouldn't know it was the same bike! 8)
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Nobby The tanks are chome plated all over but only polished around the knee rub section. When I paint a tank this section is masked and I use an etch primer to make sure I get a good key for the paint on the unpolished chrome.
Zane
Cool 8)
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Looks like a nice little drag strip you have for holeshot testing and plug chops ;D Great work on the Husky.
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yeah - the before and after are worlds apart. :o
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That is nice. ;)
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Yeah thats really good considering what you started with.... I am doing 73 WR at the moment, funny they are pretty easy bikes to get bits for as surprised how much is still available.
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Nice job Fat-toy......I love it when someone starts with an absolute dunger and ends up with such a nice finished product. It's ironic that after nearly 24 years of pre '75 class vintage motocross being a part of the Aussie off-road scene, bikes from that era are still reappearing out of barns and sheds and being readied for a new race life. The words, "There are hardly any decent (unrestored) pre 75 bikes left" uttered on these very pages a few years ago, still brings a smile ;D.
Seek and ye shall find. ;)
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I can't believe it's the same bike! That is excellent work.
Tex
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The bike looks good. Fat-toy. I never think to take photo's of my bikes before I start work on them.Just a question who did the chrome on the fuel tank for you?? Darcy
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If your tank is too battered to re-chrome, I can supply chrome decals to the original size and shape http://www.crankys.co.uk/
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Darcy the chrome on this tank was in pretty good condition so it only needed to be resprayed.
Zane
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Nice job Zane,great too see one saved rather than go to the tip,i am currently doing up a YZ80H,it needs the forks rechromed before it becomes a roller but almost everything else is ready(engine,shock,swingarm etc) ,its just a few more bit's and pieces and it's there.(http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx325/dalesween/P1010357.jpg)
(http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx325/dalesween/P1010465.jpg)
(http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx325/dalesween/P1010484.jpg)
(http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx325/dalesween/P1010468.jpg)
(http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx325/dalesween/P1010185.jpg)
(http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx325/dalesween/P1010306.jpg)
(http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx325/dalesween/P1010317.jpg)
hoping to be a goer in the next 6 months but we will see.
cheers Dale.
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Nice Dale, is that build taking shape purely indoors I would get killed for having a frame inside. :o
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Hi Dale great feeling when you finally get frame, suspension and wheels all back together and looking like a bike and not just a pile of spare parts.
Zane
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Hi Zane yeah im so close but yet so far a way from a roller,Frosty i was just keeping the frame warm and dry under a heating vent in the spare room over winter,rebuild is definatley not allowed inside :( shed only,but sometimes im home alone ;)
cheers Dale.