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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1984 Husky AE 500 Kickstarter

P

penton74

Husqvarna
For a 1984 Husqvarna AE 500, does anyone have information or know where to find info on how to adjust the kickstarter spring on the drum. How many turns, how tight for example? Any knowledge on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.
 
penton74 said:
For a 1984 Husqvarna AE 500, does anyone have information or know where to find info on how to adjust the kickstarter spring on the drum. How many turns, how tight for example? Any knowledge on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.
Click to expand...
2 turns before
 
There is no by the book way to do it.
What you have to do is to put it together, and while holding it in your lap work it so you can see how it functions.
Once figured out put inboard tip in a vice and wind spring by moving the case then put kick lever on, then check it if more preload needed back in vece and move it a spline or 2.
Hard to explain but thats the way it is.
Reason for never taking kick lever off when removing side case.
Later George
 
2 FULL turns? really? I was playing with this last night on my '84 CR250 and that spring seems awful stiff to get even 1 full rotation out of it. (BTW, I bought it with it apart so "its not my fault" :lol:

I actually had vague memories from the '70s about not ever taking the kick assembly apart....and I didnt even own a Husky at the time!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top