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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

help getting it started and general orientation

bezza

bezza

Husqvarna
OK,
the restored 450CR 72' bike is here, any tips on getting the thing started? Just spent half an hour killing myself. I managed to get a "all models" Haynes workshop manual, but no general operation manual located as yet. I notice that my 450 has a decompression lever to aid starting. Was that only available on the 450?
Anything and everything appreciated.

Bez
 
Thanks for the info,
I actually pulled the fuel line from the tank fuel tap and not a drop of fuel came out. I guess there's a little gauze filter in there that's full of crud! Any tricks to making life easy here?
 
sounds like you should take a look at the petcock and since its suspect verify the carbs clean...would not hurt to check the jets and write down whats in it
 
start at the top... is the tank vented ok? Letting air in so fuel can run out. check the cap. then test the fuel tap.
then the needle and seat in the carb and then clean it with compressed air if its dirty.

also pull the spark plug out, connect the cap and check the spark.
 
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