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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

72 450 WR Tank Restoration

I tried that but it failed:( buying feed for hay burners now ...which is good as no argument about spending $$ on toys;)
 
When rebuilding the card I installed the stock jets (170 main and 35 pilot) as a starting point. Is it good practice to increase the jet size or oil mix for break in purposes? Thanks for any advice.
 
always pays to richen up the first tank or two on a fresh engine. think about dropping the needle clip 1 position to richen that midrange till the first 2 tankfulls have gone through.
 
Altos75 said:
After rebuilding the engine and turning it over by hand I think a compression release is definitely in order. Is there a standard used on vintage Huskys?
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it never hurts to ever do a compression test.. then you will have a good baseline.
 
Is that a speedo on the bars clamps? Do you have a better pic. I have one that looks like it clamps to the crossbar. I'd like to see how yours is mounted. Is it front or rear wheel drive? You did an awesome job on the tank and the rest of the bike looks great.
 
DeathFromAbove said:
Is that a speedo on the bars clamps? Do you have a better pic. I have one that looks like it clamps to the crossbar. I'd like to see how yours is mounted. Is it front or rear wheel drive? You did an awesome job on the tank and the rest of the bike looks great.
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Sorry for the delayed response. The speedo is mounted off the bar risers via 2 brackets and anti vibe rubber mounts. The speedo is cable (1460mm) driven from the rear wheel (left side).
 
That's a sweet setup. How does the drive work, is it installed like a bushing? Mine looks like it replaces the left bushing. here's a pic of my mount.
 
After rebuilding the engine and turning it over by hand I think a compression release is definitely in order. Is there a standard used on vintage Huskys?
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Not really a standard that I'm familiar with. I've used a chainsaw decompression valve and it works good. Since this photo, which has a plastic handle, I've found a decompression valve with a chrome steel handle that's longer making it easier to pull open while wearing a glove. These run the risk of coming apart and falling inside which doesn't go well with a traveling piston so its prudent to weld a washer to the bottom of the reducer bushing you'll need for the 10mm decompression valve to fit the 14mm sparkplug hole.

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Crashaholic said:
Not really a standard that I'm familiar with. I've used a chainsaw decompression valve and it works good. Since this photo, which has a plastic handle, I've found a decompression valve with a chrome steel handle that's longer making it easier to pull open while wearing a glove. These run the risk of coming apart and falling inside which doesn't go well with a traveling piston so its prudent to weld a washer to the bottom of the reducer bushing you'll need for the 10mm decompression valve to fit the 14mm sparkplug hole.

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Thanks Crash, haven't had an problem kicking her over yet but I can foresee it being an issue for the girlfriend.
 
Yeah, It came with the 360rt with a 450 engine in it. The speedo was in a parts box but the drive was on the left rear axle. I'm looking for a low # MJ frame to put the motor in and a 360 engine for the rt. Seems my Husky family is growing.:D
 
Great job on everything. With all the refurbished and upgraded mechanical stuff your 450 will be a lot of fun to ride.

That dynamo ignition is probably a big contributor to the easy start. Very nice.
 
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