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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1969 360 Cross No Spark

gsuty17

gsuty17

Husqvarna
Howdy, I am finally working on my old Husky after having let it sit in the shed for about 10 years. It ran when I parked it, but now I do not have any spark. I have the Femsa Ignition with the VAR 41-48 Rotor, can anybody help me out with this? I have tested everything that I know how, and am not having any luck.

So far I have cleaned up/gapped the points, and timed it. Nothing. Initially I found that the points weren't breaking and tracked down a short in the lower stator winding. I fixed that and the points break clean and on time, but still no spark. I figured a bad capacitor might be shorting me out so I pulled it out, still no spark.

Here is my current state of affairs:
Seconday Coil Resistance: 4500-5000 ohms
Primary Coil Resistance: 1.8-2.5 ohms
Lower (ignition) stator coil voltage during kick: .15 Volts
Upper (lighting?) stator coil voltage during kick: .25 Volts

Does anybody have any values to confirm or refute whether these values indicate good/bad parts? I really don't like the idea of just throwing parts at it. The coil resistance seems about right compared to jap bikes, but I feel like the stator voltage is quite low. Does anybody here have any input? Also, if this ins't the forum for this, please don't hesitate to point me in the direction of a better alternative.
 
The nice part about points ignition is that the parts are not expensive to throw at them if your coil is ok. You can even use a coil off any other bike with a 6 volt point system. Before doing anything else I would clean the metal on the front motor mount. Corrosion or rust between the front mounts and the inside of it's bracket are one of the primary things to check when you have no spark. Set up your ohm meter to check that the engine is grounded to the frame and that the ignition plate shows solid ground to the frame. Pull off the ignition plate and clean the mounting surfaces in the centercase and the back of the ignition. You can get new points and condenser from a Bultaco dealer and the condenser actually cross references to an old GM condenser.

Correcting this may improve the output of the ignition stator coil
 
gsuty17 said:
Howdy, I am finally working on my old Husky after having let it sit in the shed for about 10 years. It ran when I parked it, but now I do not have any spark. I have the Femsa Ignition with the VAR 41-48 Rotor, can anybody help me out with this? I have tested everything that I know how, and am not having any luck.
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[quote="gsuty17, post: 323990, member: 14138"]

So far I have cleaned up/gapped the points, and timed it. Nothing. Initially I found that the points weren't breaking and tracked down a short in the lower stator winding. I fixed that and the points break clean and on time, but still no spark. I figured a bad capacitor might be shorting me out so I pulled it out, still no spark.

Here is my current state of affairs:
Seconday Coil Resistance: 4500-5000 ohms
Primary Coil Resistance: 1.8-2.5 ohms
Lower (ignition) stator coil voltage during kick: .15 Volts
Upper (lighting?) stator coil voltage during kick: .25 Volts

Does anybody have any values to confirm or refute whether these values indicate good/bad parts? I really don't like the idea of just throwing parts at it. The coil resistance seems about right compared to jap bikes, but I feel like the stator voltage is quite low. Does anybody here have any input? Also, if this ins't the forum for this, please don't hesitate to point me in the direction of a better alternative.[/quote]

Hey gsuty17, I'm interested to hear if you resolved the problem with your ignition. I'm always open to learning something new when it comes to ignitions. One thing that comes to mind after reading your post is the magnetic strength of the magneto. While not a common issue its still a possibility but by now I'm sure you've probably figured it out.
 
jimspac said:
The nice part about points ignition is that the parts are not expensive to throw at them if your coil is ok. You can even use a coil off any other bike with a 6 volt point system. Before doing anything else I would clean the metal on the front motor mount. Corrosion or rust between the front mounts and the inside of it's bracket are one of the primary things to check when you have no spark. Set up your ohm meter to check that the engine is grounded to the frame and that the ignition plate shows solid ground to the frame. Pull off the ignition plate and clean the mounting surfaces in the centercase and the back of the ignition. You can get new points and condenser from a Bultaco dealer and the condenser actually cross references to an old GM condenser.

Correcting this may improve the output of the ignition stator coil
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I couldn't agree more with this advice. She's been sitting in a shed for 10 years; things do tend to corrode over time. No other reason for her not to start, since everything was working fine before taking a long Rumple Stiltskin nap. oh....and don't forget the kill switch on the handle bars.
 
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