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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Newbie here... 76 250WR with the bing giving me trouble

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Downerman

Husqvarna
Stunning bike I just got in a divorce sale. Sat for a while and that should have been my clue to clean the tank out. Anyway, the problem is the rebuilt Bing (Ordered the kit it directly from them) runs great wide open but that low to middle range, we it's running like crap. After a few minutes the bike struggles to run except at full throttle and then it struggles just to run with it conking out on me. Got back to the shop and replaced the fuel line and filter. Drained gas, cleaned tank and thought for sure that was my issue because the original filter was real bad.

Got it all cleaned up, fired it up and it idle's great. For that matter it runs great too when it's just sitting there in the drive way. Have adjusted the small screw while I'm in 2nd 1/4 throttle and maybe doing 20 Mph, running like crap both ways with no solid results. Get's worse, barely make it back. Any thoughts before I just chuck this old Bing and buy a mikuni and have fun with the bike?
 
bing needle jets,[the part that the needle rides inside] are prone to wearing out, causing pig rich mid throttle condition.
 
got a 360cr that ran the same way took off the bing and put on a mikuni jetted it and it runs like a dream. Junk the bing.
 
Thanks guys..... I had heard they were not the best carbs once they had some miles on them. I should have listened and not spent the cash on the rebuild kit and put it towards a new carb. I have been on this road with other bikes and it always amazes me how well a new carb makes the bike run. Have had some success with rebuild kits but not as many as you would think. Good news I guess is I get rid of the tickler and toss the carb in the box marked 76 Husky for anyone who may want the original equipment if I ever sell the bike.
 
Those are classic symptoms for a worn needle/needle jet in a Bing. Naturally, those parts DONT come in the "rebuild kit", which every bike I have ever bought with a Bing needed a new needle/needle jet set. Bings are not junk, but they are also not work pouring the kind of money into that it requires to get them working and keep them working. If you intend to ride the bike, get a Mikuni and forget about it.
 
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