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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

85 250CR cutting out at full throttle

Bigbill said:
How come the SEM ignitions never failed in my Husqvarna chainsaws? Yet they seem so fragile in the dirtbikes.
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Bill, How many gallons of gas have you run through your chainsaw in the last 32 years? Compared to a 1985 Husky dirt bike.

Marty
 
I guess as Bill did chain saw competitions quite a few, the real problem is us expecting a 30 to 40 year old ignition to work as it did new, mind you as I had Lucas (Prince of Darkness) and Wipac ( Wipe-out) electrics on my bikes when I was a kid that hardly worked when 5 years old SEM (Seldom Electricity Makes) is probably quite reliable?
 
the SEMs have a high output lighting coil that gets hot....real hot. i was advised to keep the magneto clean in 1984 and i religiously used to keep the unit clean and never had any problems. .....in the three years i had it:rolleyes:
 
suprize said:
the SEMs have a high output lighting coil that gets hot....real hot. i was advised to keep the magneto clean in 1984 and i religiously used to keep the unit clean and never had any problems. .....in the three years i had it:rolleyes:
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do you recommend hot soapy water :D
 
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