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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1979 Husky 390cr Kick Starter Gears

Ron

Ron

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm currently in the process of rebuilding the motor after the Elsinore Gran Prix melt-down.

My son said he wheelied through a water crossing and seized about a 1.4 mile later. Brand new piston with less than 4 hours on it.

The motor still had water in it when I took it apart last week from November.

I recently bought a 78 390CR motor for spare parts and find that most of the parts are in better shape than what I had.

In the process of comparing parts I noticed the donor motor has a #482 23T kicker gear and my 79 motor has a #501 21T gear.

Is there any advantage or dis-advantage to using the 23T gear. Might spin the motor faster I'm thinking (but harder to kick)?
 
Is it the same diameter? Different gearbox ratios would require different kickstart gears. A cr gear wheel might be different than an OR gear wheel in the number of teeth. I raced the Elsinore GP afew times on the DKW.
 
Gears are a different diameter, I will be using the the primary gears from the donor motor as well.
 
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