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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Hunting tickover

stormer254

stormer254

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have just recently finished building a 420 Auto into a CR frame, the bike goes well and handles a treat despite having a very nondescript pair of rear shocks, The only problem is the engine hunts at tickover which means I have the t/o set a little fast , not good for selecting gear on an auto! Has anybody any idea why, it is a new carb body with 45 pilot jet though I am trying a 55 at the moment, no.2 throttle slide. Do not think it is an air leak as the engine does not speed up and stops easily, somebody suggested the reeds but couldn't tell me why. Any pointers to sort this out would be gratefully received, a slow reliable t/o is a must on an Auto.100_0247.JPG
 

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I can not help you with the T/O but regarding the reeds I would check them over first to verify they are installed correctly(I have heard it is not so obvious) and general condition(no chipping, wear, etc...). I used to have a 1978 Auto about 30 years ago and the blessing was after replacing 2nd gear I never had to do anything else for it other than change the ATF. I loved it except when the brakes got wet and as you know they love to freewheel down hills. My love of that Auto has me building the 6 speed 1978 390WR I always wanted.
 
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