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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

!987 wr 250 kickstarter

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Reggie Quimby

Husqvarna
B Class
Hi, I'm a newcomer to this site. At one time I had a 1983 wr250 that I sold! I recently saw a 87 advertised with problems with kickstarter. Has anybody had experiance with this problem? Any ideas about what could be the problem and how diffacult and expense of a repair? Thanks Reggie
 
it could vary from the last guy assembling it wrong to having worn a worn gear or gears to having a little needle bearing go bad and put metal chips into the insides basically ruining everything except what isn't in the transmission/clutch compartment. It is virtually the same as the bike you had prior. Did you ever have the clutch off and look at the little gear on the back of it? Do you remember how the little pawl pushes on lump like things behind the kick starter shaft?
 
fran...k. said:
it could vary from the last guy assembling it wrong to having worn a worn gear or gears to having a little needle bearing go bad and put metal chips into the insides basically ruining everything except what isn't in the transmission/clutch compartment. It is virtually the same as the bike you had prior. Did you ever have the clutch off and look at the little gear on the back of it? Do you remember how the little pawl pushes on lump like things behind the kick starter shaft?
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Thanks for responding to my post. The ad said he purchased it new and last fall was out for a ride he tried to restart and kickstarter wouldn't work. He said he pushstarted it and rode home ,hasn't used it since. I am waiting for him to get back to me.
 
I saw the little pawl spring collapse on a 87 just 2 weeks ago at a Vinduro.
The guy stretched it but it went again almost straight away.
 
I finally purchased bike after six weeks of e-mail tag. Seller was nice guy when finally able to meet and speak face to face! Original owner with paperwork and extras,worth the wait. Now thefun and education begins.
 
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