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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bing blues

tikitweaker

tikitweaker

Husqvarna
AA Class
I recently bought a 1977 250WR with a Bing 54 for my wife. It leaks badly when kicking it, falls flat at mid throttle and over all seams to be performing badly. I ordered a new viton tipped float needle and it should be arriving soon. The more I read about the bing here, the more I just want to junk it and get a mikuni. I'm not very carb savvy so my question is: can I buy a brand new mikuni on ebay and have a decent base line to begin dialing in the jets? What size or model number should I be looking at? I live on the coast at sea level if that helps. and just because a thread is really boring with out pics, Here is picture of my wife's bike.
 

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Get a Lectron carb. They work fantastic on vintage bikes. Huge upgrade.

Disclaimer is that I do sell them but feel free to buy direct too. I'm just making the suggestion.
 
Motosportz said:
Get a Lectron carb. They work fantastic on vintage bikes. Huge upgrade.

Disclaimer is that I do sell them but feel free to buy direct too. I'm just making the suggestion.
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Well I have always been very pleased with your service and products so I'll email you for more info.
 
I had an 86 250 EXC KTM with a bing fitted from original and never had a problem.
I now have a DKW 125 with a bing and same story.
If the float needle is leaking then you will have trouble on any carb.
Any carb will give trouble if worn out / blocked with crap / not serviced and so on.
If the things ran good enough for the factory to fit them then they can't be that bad.
 
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