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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2 leaks

ARH

ARH

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm really enjoying my "new" '74 WR250 so far, but I have a couple of minor leak issues. I figure being an older bike its going to seep and drip a little but I would rather it didn't. Maybe someone has some good advice.

Leak #1: I find some gas pooled under the carb. it doesn't do it when the fuel is off, I just find it there after I ride.

#2: I find a couple of drips of oil on the ground under where the kick start lever enters. the seal there is damp with oil. This happens overnight when the bike is parked for awhile.

Are these just things I should get used to living with? serious problems brewing? easy to fix?
 
How is the fuel line going into the carb? If it's wet after a ride the carb or line is leaking. Bowl leak?

Is there a seal on the kick starter or "0" ring. Is the bearing in the cover worn? I changed covers in the past on my late 70's bikes if the kicker was sloppy.
 
Fuel line looks new and supple, I don't think it is from the line unless maybe from where it attaches to the petcock and it ran down from there. It seems the whole carb area is kind of damp, that is just it, I can't seem to pin point it for some reason. The drip under the kicker is very obvious, though it is only a couple of drips and only happens after I ride it, after I wipe up the drips it can sit for awhile and no more leaking as long as I don't start it up. Everything looks good from the outside, I haven't taken anything apart as of yet. I just wanted to see if there was an obvious place to start or usual point if trouble. I think I'll start with the carb, I can live with a couple drips of oil as long as it doesn't get worse.
 
I caught a drip running down my fuel line, so I thought I had a petcock leak, turns out that was fine, it was the line after all. I found a tiny puncture in the otherwise good looking hose. replaced line, added a fuel filter while at it, then fired up the bike.

still leaking.

Much less than before, but still a drip. At least the line and the top portion of the carb are dry now. So I still have at least 2 leaks, 3 if I count the gas cap that leaks if the tank is more than half full, but I have one less leak than I started the day with.

Snow is on the way, bike is moved to the enclosed porch with a tray under it, just in case.
 
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