• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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Help! I removed kickstart lever from my 360 Auto

Roon

Roon

Husqvarna
AA Class
How do I refit in the correct position?
Im going away for Easter tomorrow and the bikes in bits, clutch cover is off and I need to get it back together now....
I should have left it alone.....but I needed to see why oil was leaking from the round insert in the middle of the clutch cover (the one below the kickstart back stop) and Im so used to working on modern bikes I just removed the kickstart lever by default.....when I removed the kick lever the splined shaft rotated anti clockwise a bit and it was at that point I knew I should have RTFM first......



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you idiot:oldman: there is a post here somewhere showing how to reset the kicker in the right position. I had it wrong on my 400 and everytime the bike stopped the kicker gear grabbed the pawl...nasty

search for kicker assembly
 
ive searched and the 1 post I found has been lost?? no result found when you click on the link...keep searching, I recently saw a picky of the pawl, not far from the change in the guide plate with the kicker up against its rest.
 
found this
I'm pretty sure the older Auto like his are nothing like the 81-90's kicker pawl your showing

Michel Dufayard or Grouty will probably chime in , there Auto guys
 
The 360/390 Auto manual has the information you need. All this is done on the bench (not on the bike). You need to position the kick lever so that the mechanism engages at the point shown in the manual (this is a photo showing the lever position at engagement). If you have got it right, when you release the lever and it sits against the rubber stop, the ratchets are not engaging. You have to do all this whilst maintaining the spring tension ! It helps to have a narrow pair of Molegrips to hold the splined shaft while you move the lever about.
Sounds easy doesn't it ..... well, it is when you have done it once.
Your leak appears to be coming from the idler shaft boss inside the cover. Good luck removing that one ! It's a PITA.
 
stormer254 to the rescue !
Easy to see how to set it once I had some pics and understood the kickstarter gears need to freewheel when the engine is running and only start to engage when the lever is at "3 minutes to midnight"
Bike has been sitting for six months since I bought it, so a splash of premix into the tank, tickle the Bing and 3 kicks later we're dinging away...
Looking forward to a shakedown ride this weekend on private property where we are camping, I'll see if the bike is tame enough for my 15 year old daughter to ride once Ive had a few fettling runs :D
 
is that where it stopped???:D nice bike.:thumbsup: still kicking myself for letting one of those slip by many years ago. was at the first Bendigo Swap Meet and the clown had $1100 bucks on itand I thought..."far too much for an ol husky....." I am an Idiot:banghead:
 
suprize said:
is that where it stopped???:D nice bike.:thumbsup: still kicking myself for letting one of those slip by many years ago. was at the first Bendigo Swap Meet and the clown had $1100 bucks on itand I thought..."far too much for an ol husky....." I am an Idiot:banghead:
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2 of these shots are taken at the top of a little singletrack hillclimb that terminates at a pile of rocks.....Ive never got right to the top before on any of my modern bikes because the last section has a sharp turn littered with loose stones, no problem with the auto, I just keep the power on and it simply kept the rear wheel turning at a nice even pace and walked over everything....going down is another story as you know (freewheel), by the time I got to the bottom (where the big sandstone rock is) the front brake lever was back to the bars.....
 
It will make your riding enjoyment much better, and safer on those long descents if you fit a left hand rear brake.
I've posted this picture a couple of times, but here it is again.

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grouty said:
It will make your riding enjoyment much better, and safer on those long descents if you fit a left hand rear brake.
I've posted this picture a couple of times, but here it is again.

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i love mods that involve using husqvarna parts, haha
 
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