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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1986 Enduro 400 XCE

Make sure your cables are all oiled and the throttle is free! and if you can get to the , grease up the rear linkages and check the wheel bearings.

pull the spark plug and test that the kill switch works! a peak revving bike is no time to find it isn't connected....
 
Hey boys quick update. After all the work she finally ran today. I was avoiding taking apart the carb but unfortunately i need to. Something is stuck open and gas is pouring out of the overflow. Also im not sure why but the clutch isnt engaging. When i had the cover off, the clutch would move but the plates stuck together. Do i need to adjust it more?
 
I had to jump start it with no clutch and when i got it to run it was reving high but i got it to shut off quick
 
cOrPsE said:
Hey boys quick update. After all the work she finally ran today. I was avoiding taking apart the carb but unfortunately i need to. Something is stuck open and gas is pouring out of the overflow. Also im not sure why but the clutch isnt engaging. When i had the cover off, the clutch would move but the plates stuck together. Do i need to adjust it more?
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Take it apart, remove all the clutch drive and fiber plates. Separate them and see what kind of condition they are in. If OK reinstall. Might be grabby but should work.
 
cOrPsE said:
Hey boys quick update. After all the work she finally ran today. I was avoiding taking apart the carb but unfortunately i need to. Something is stuck open and gas is pouring out of the overflow. Also im not sure why but the clutch isnt engaging. When i had the cover off, the clutch would move but the plates stuck together. Do i need to adjust it more?
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This should be one of the first things you do to a bike that has sat a while. Sounds like your floats or float needle or both are stuck.
 
Motosportz said:
This should be one of the first things you do to a bike that has sat a while. Sounds like your floats or float needle or both are stuck.
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Yea i know, i submerged it in gas for a couple days and hoped that would do the trick. Found out today i was wrong.
 
Wow it was horrible in the carb and floats were stuck of course. Im still worried about the clutch.
 
Never give up Corpse.
The 240 I own came in a tea chest and EVERY part was either worn out/stuck or broken.
Every time I fixed something another thing was wrong.
Took me over a year to get it right.
Ripper bike now.
Goes like a stabbed rat.:thumbsup:
 
dukkman said:
Never give up Corpse.
The 240 I own came in a tea chest and EVERY part was either worn out/stuck or broken.
Every time I fixed something another thing was wrong.
Took me over a year to get it right.
Ripper bike now.
Goes like a stabbed rat.:thumbsup:
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Haha thanks for the encouragement man. Nothing new to me almost every bike I've owned i start off by overhauling it. I just got the carb back on and the floats are doing what they should. I havent started it yet though because its wet out so i cant jump it, and my shoes are converse chuck taylors lol. Cant wait for tomorrow. Inside the carb was black, looked like it sad in mud. Very gross and tarnished.
 
cOrPsE said:
Inside the carb was black, looked like it sad in mud. Very gross and tarnished.
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cOrPsE said:
Kept trying to start it today and confirmed its getting gas/spark but keeps flooding :(
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Take the carb apart again. Still crap in it cause the float to stick or the needs and seat for the float are not working right. Seen this a million times on old sitting carbs. 90% of the time it is EZer to just replace the crap carb. Find a nice used more modern carb on Ebay or if you ahve the coin by a Lectron and you bike and you will be far more happy.
 
Ok so its running now yea thing the float hits was upside down. Idling a little rough, throttle seems a little sticky. The clutch also wont work. IM happy though lol
 
Did you disassemble the clutch, oil the plates and stick it back in? That should make it work but might be grabby for the first ride or two.
 
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