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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My 82 250 XC stoped Shifting into 3rd Gear

As to that shift return spring which looks like a circle of a couple of winds and two perhaps two inch more or less straight ends, it can get bent if the clutch cover isn't put on right. It kind of straddles a pin. I acutally bent it this year for the first time and just re bent it. My symptoms weren't first and second gear only but if it is the spring you should be able to re bend it, I did.

As mentioned prior, the little pins used to turn the shift drum can get worn or deformed. When I had my engine apart this winter I couldn't get the bad pin out and swapped the whole drum. Do I understand you can manually turn the drum somehow and shift through the gears? I really doubt wobbly shift lever, the one the foot actuates makes a difference.

fran
 
fran...k. said:
As to that shift return spring which looks like a circle of a couple of winds and two perhaps two inch more or less straight ends, it can get bent if the clutch cover isn't put on right. It kind of straddles a pin. I acutally bent it this year for the first time and just re bent it. My symptoms weren't first and second gear only but if it is the spring you should be able to re bend it, I did.

As mentioned prior, the little pins used to turn the shift drum can get worn or deformed. When I had my engine apart this winter I couldn't get the bad pin out and swapped the whole drum. Do I understand you can manually turn the drum somehow and shift through the gears? I really doubt wobbly shift lever, the one the foot actuates makes a difference.

fran
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The Spring that was in the Engine had a worn spot where it was rubbing on the Clutch Cover I assume. So I replaced it with a 30 year old one out of a 430 lower end I have. It made it better but still not quite there.

The Pins on the Drum look real good it makes me wonder just how many Hours are on this Bike. By useing a Socket on the Drum and spining the rear Tire everything shifts pretty well. Now that I know whats going on if it dosn't want to up shift I now know that a tap on the shifter to get it to return to newtral and then up shift all should be fine.

Sounds like Husky Doggg is coming to the rescue with a new Shifter Spring.
 
I know this is kinda an old thread but to close it I did figure out what was wrong. Or should I say a very helpful Racer from Monroe Wa did for me at the Desert 100 last year. Wish I could remember His name. When I installed my Clutch Cover it didn't have the Dowel Pins in it so I made my own. I didn't understand that the long one passes threw the Return Spring and I had made it to short. So basicly the return spring wasn't doing what it was suposed to be doing.
 
Thanks for the closing! I was just inside my clutch, unsticking the stack after 26 years! What is your opinion of the Barnett discs?
 
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