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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

CR390 KICKSTARTER

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Husqvarna
A Class
I purchased a 390 kickstart lever which is angled forward in order to get a better throw on my 75 CR360. well, it bottoms out on the shift lever knocking it into 2nd gear! I thought the engines were the same from75 on up to 80 or so. Any thoughts?
 
All Husky kickstarts are really poor even the swivel out type on my 87 model hits the foot peg.I have several pairs of boots with ripped off or damaged buckles from the straight kickstarts where my boot hit the frame. I keep looking for another make of kickstart that I can use to clear the footpeg. Rant over sorry, I can not answer your query but I would love my bike to be easier to kick over.
 
Those years aren't my specialty either. There is an auto 390 is your post stating the 360 auto and 390 auto kickstarters are the same as the standard shift ones?
 
fran...k. said:
Those years aren't my specialty either. There is an auto 390 is your post stating the 360 auto and 390 auto kickstarters are the same as the standard shift ones?
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fran...k. said:
Those years aren't my specialty either. There is an auto 390 is your post stating the 360 auto and 390 auto kickstarters are the same as the standard shift ones?
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I have an 82 420 as well which has a straight kickstart with the smaller splines and that is the one I have ripped the buckle of my boot off with:(
 
The only 360 I have ridden had been decked (a porting process of sorts) and the kick starter had been lengthened about three quarters of an inck. I recall it broke and I re welded its, maybe the decking wasn't why it was extended.
 
I've just finished my 1980 390CR and have smashed the bajeezus out of my kick start, foot peg and even started rubbing the case. Ive heard about the 1983 kick start fitting on, will this help with the issue? What's involved in fitting it? Is it as simple as swapping the starter and splined stub?

Second note, Phillip and HP has released a billet alloy brake pedal that looks pretty fancy for this era. Has anyone used one yet?
 
I'm just finishing this off, LC4/husky. Have tried it (but not in anger) and from my limited experience it will work well. More info on my resto thread, its not too much work if you know a good welder.

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hmmmm husky kickstarts ..... my 1978 390 one snapped second time out....leasky quickly got me a new one .... an updated part with thicker metal around the pivot part.... but later on in the year found spline was too fine pitch and wore the softer part ...ie the kicker not the shaft.... sort of ok on the 125 and 250 but not the open classers for obvious reasons.... took until the 81 430 to go to a wider spline..... only good thing with the fine pitch spline was you could go one spline to the left and gain a bit more kick for your boot....yes later on they gouged the case as well.
Even managed to snap the kickstart on my 84 500... i cut about 3/4" out of the middle because it was so damn high [ and at 5' 10" and 15stone i was no midget] and re welded no probs after that.
 
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