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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Kickstart assembly 1978 390

Brian390

Brian390

Husqvarna
C Class
When I got the bike last year the seal was leaking badly, and after a few outings with it the spring popped loose and the lever wouldn't return. So after replacing the seal and reinstalling the spring, if you go by the manual it shows the pawl holding the driving wheel at the right, or start of the beveled edge. However that means a lot of movement before the the wheel actually engages the engine. Mine was set up like this, with the pawl on the left edge of the bezel, which starts the engagement process much sooner in the throw.
My question is the way I have it correct, or is there a method of moving the kickstart lever to a different spot on the splines that would make this all work correctly?
Hoping I explained that correctly, including a pic of my set up.

Thanks,

Brian


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Hey Brian, I got my bike last summer. Broke the return spring and purchased replacement spring and seals. It popped out like 4 more times on me. I was getting super frustrated with it. Larry Stahl recommended I try flipping the spring. There needs to be a little bit of angle as it goes into drive disc. So far I have started it 7-8 times no issue. Yes, the picture you have is same as my setup. The manual shows it on opposite side which does not work. You want the engagement to start as far up in the stroke as possible. Hope this helps.
 
Yes, you will need to remove the kick start lever off the splines in order to set up the spring/drive disc/paw. Once that is done place the gear on the shaft and make sure it spins freely. Then place kick start on the splines where it is right against the rubber bump stop. Crank the level down and it should slide over and engage the gear. Takes a little trial and error to get it just right. fyi.
 
Hey, you may want to join a couple FB groups as this site is dead. Vintage Husqvarna motorcycles and Friends of Husqvarna motorcycles have pretty good traffic and helpful people. fyi.
 
Rojotes390CR said:
Hey, you may want to join a couple FB groups as this site is dead. Vintage Husqvarna motorcycles and Friends of Husqvarna motorcycles have pretty good traffic and helpful people. fyi.
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Thanks for the tip, I set it up like the manual said and was not happy with it, and I held off adding oil in case someone had a better idea. I threw the question out on a couple FB groups but got no response there. I'll try your method, did you install the spring so the long end goes into the case per the manual, or the other way around. Thanks so much for the advice!

Brian
 
I flipped it short end in case and long end in drive disc. Put a little bit of angle on long end with 2 pairs of pliers. Needs to really stick in there and not slide easily back out of hole. Have started it a dozen times now no problem. Yeah the higher bevelled edge needs to be on left side right under paw. When you crank down it should fall off raised area which pushes gear over. In top position that drive gear has to spin freely. As you kick down it engages it.
 
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