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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

83 CR500, here begineth the lesson

Wildebeest90210 said:
Hmm, could this be a clue ?

Yeah, that will do it. I figured it was flooded based on your description of trying to start it, encountered the same disfficulties shortly after pickiing up my first Husky. Next time you have the engine on the bench, install a crank case drain plug. I know Husqfleet installed one and had some advice on where in the bottom of the case he did it.

The good news is you are almost there!
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Possibly need a new petcock and new needle/seat kit for the carb. Some folks just disconnect the fuel line and clamp it off when the bikes not being run. I like new parts though...
 
Yep. Been there, filled the carb, reeds, crankcase, and bottom of exhaust before dribbling out all over the floor !
New needle and seat and a new fuel tap (with reserve) cured it though.
 
grouty said:
Yep. Been there, filled the carb, reeds, crankcase, and bottom of exhaust before dribbling out all over the floor !
New needle and seat and a new fuel tap (with reserve) cured it though.
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I spoke to Allens performance and they will do a brand new carb for £115. I think as this bike is a keeper I might do this anyway as I know the slide is worn at the very least on the old one.
That sounds like a really good price and they have them on the shelf.
Just have to find the standard 430 jets and needle. I know the info is on here somewhere or might start a thread on the main page .
 
Kartwheel68 said:
Mikuni jets dont wear like Bing jets, just transfer the ones out of the carb you have into the new one.
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Thanks, I'll look at the price for all new as well though as they have been butchered a bit, both crossheads and hexheads.
Had a major panic about crank seals failing causing crankcase filling (ie no crankcase compression for transfer) but bubbled gearbox breather in a glass of water while using kickstartand looked at generator side and they look fine so hopefully carb related.
 
Wildebeest90210 said:
Thanks, I'll look at the price for all new as well though as they have been butchered a bit, both crossheads and hexheads.
Had a major panic about crank seals failing causing crankcase filling (ie no crankcase compression for transfer) but bubbled gearbox breather in a glass of water while using kickstartand looked at generator side and they look fine so hopefully carb related.
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Did you clear out the crank case cavity after your first attempt several weeks ago? Was wondering if you had a large pool that evaporated leaving a bunch of oil behind to mix with the new gas from your attempt on Tuesday as the gas you sucked out looked awfully dark and grimmy.
 
adam6402 said:
Did you clear out the crank case cavity after your first attempt several weeks ago? Was wondering if you had a large pool that evaporated leaving a bunch of oil behind to mix with the new gas from your attempt on Tuesday as the gas you sucked out looked awfully dark and grimmy.
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Yes I think that was a lot to do with it. I used molykote as well in places so that may have made it so mucky. I'm going to flush it out a few times with gas from the tank and then leave it for a while with the reed blocks out.
 
I flooded the crap out of the 400 a few weeks a go and after 10 or more kicks on full throttle she blubbed into life and shot raw fuel out of the exhaust port manifold, the muffler join and the muffler. what a mess! My great needle and seat suddenly failed. so its fuel tap off from now on.
 
What is worth looking at is your float level before you go buying carbs. Your bike looks like it is well flooding your crank cases, I have had the same problem before and when I was told the bike was getting flooded I thought just a thimble full was over wetting the plug, I didnt realise you can get about a pint into the crank cases. Anyway this youtube video might help. It looks like your floats arnt cutting off your fuel supply when your bowl is full ( I may be wrong, but it worked for me)
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj52oUY7ISc

you will need to empty your cases first before retrying. Hope it works.
 
Thanks V.R I will look at that, not now as cooking curry and draining Aussie wine lake. Was talking to someone about measuring the level with an adapted plug in the bottom of float bowl and a see through tube up the side of the carb to measure float height. Hope to get back to it tomorrow sometime, not ordered new carb but probably will sometime anyway, its been abused by MX riders for 30 years trying to change jets with rocks they found in they're tires (OK stereotypical but true of 80's MXers ! (?))
 
Also remember, you can bend a rod trying to force an engine to turn over with a crankcase full of fuel. Good move to get it out with that syringe instead of trying to force it over.
 
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