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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Problems with MZB ignition?

Well I reset the ignition to the factory specs of 2.3 mm btdc and went on an organised trail ride on last Sunday. The bike started on the 4th kick so I was happy. Boy has it got some get up and go now - I was afraid to really let it have it's head as well as I am still running it in. All was going well until 3/4 of the way around the 31km loop and she suddenly decided to boil furiously - a big clod of steam and green coolant dripping on the ground. I didn't have a chance to see where it was coming from as I was on a greasy hill and just wanted to finish the loop. (I am on medication which affected my riding a little).

I have just pulled the pump cover off and the impeller is fine and turns with the engine. I am wondering if at least one of the radiators is blocked up internally so coolant can't circulate - one has damaged and sealed-off tubes so maybe there is some sort of sealant which has blocked the other tubes.

Can anybody suggest a good supplier of a pair of new radiators or should I just go onto ebay? (I would like to go riding again on 30 October) Or should I reset the timing back to 2.0mm btdc and will that prevent future overheating?

Any advice in welcome
Rowan
 
As soon as I have radiator problems the first thing I do is buy a new radiator cap.

I have been really surprised with the difference in spring tension of a new cap to the old one.

Pressing it by hand, new cap spring really firm, old cap spring very soft.

I have seen Chinese radiators on E-bay and have heard good reports about them.

Cheers, Dave.:)
 
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