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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

new guy with my first husky

T

thom

Husqvarna
Yesterday I bought a rough 79 model 390WR. It's probably too far gone to restore. The engine turns but I'm told has no fire. It may need to be an organ donor. I bought it CHEAP so I should be able to recover my investment. What do you all think?



I have no kick start pedal . The intake manifold is broken. The petcock is missing from the tank. What to do?
 
Thom,
I've rebuild worst,see pics, depends on what the bike means to you. Was it a bike you always wanted? make a list of what you'd need to fix it, that may be the
cold water in the face for you to decide. Plenty of parts are available, 390 motor is a great engine.
Husky John
 

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The lack of spark would be the deciding factor , I suppose . I'm afraid the ignition problem would be expensive to fix. It's frustrating not being able to check for spark myself , not being able to kick it thru. If the ignition problem was fixed I would have to have a manifold to attempt to start it. I would like to get it running but how badly do I want it to run and how much do I want to spend to make it happen?
 
ignitions are not expensive to fix on these...a whole entire new system can be purchased for around 400 or the stator can be rewound for half that..
 
If you paid a couple hundred for it,the shocks are worth that alone.I would pull the top end and see what the top end and rod condition is.If they are solid,go find a ignition if it really needs one.If the motor needs a total rebuild,think hard about which direction you go.
 
Thanks all. Yeah I knew the shocks were on upside down. I figure if the same person that put the shocks on worked on the rest of the bike , what else is upside down or backwards? I took a spark plug out and turned the flywheel to check for spark. None. I disconnected the wire to the kill switch and plugged on of the wires for the coil up that was hanging loose. Still no spark. I'm going to look for a wiring diagram to check if the electricals are properly connected. Just thought, the flywheel does turn clockwise ,but then I suppose a 2-stroke would "fire" turning either way? Thanks again.
 
Something appears to have been sawn off my sidecase just in front of the kickstart shaft.See the pic above. What is missing? Thanks.
 
Back again. I carefully turned the kick start shaft with some pliers and confirmed that the flywheel turns clockwise. Could I have been turning the flywheel fast enough by hand to produce a spark? I suppose I could turn the crank/flywheel with a socket on the flywheel nut, huh? The nut is not currently on the crankshaft, but I have the nut. Left hand threads ? Thanks again.
 
no, you must be kicking it. hand speed is no where fast enough to get spark...the nut on the crank is lh, so you must it clockwise to loosen it.

the chunk by the kicker missing is broken off. there used to be a lump there that had a rubber bumper on it...to act as a kick lever stop...

if you like vintage bikes this is a good ones...smooth and fast
 
get the bike chocked with the back wheel off the floor and try turning the wheel whilst in gear and see if you can get a spark, you will need some help, you could tie rope to the rear tyre to get it spinning fast enough.
 
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