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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

SEM MAGNETO?

Bigbill said:
Why not? Take a chance Columbus did, Lincoln even took a shot.......
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Because I've already done it and I know it doesnt work. The 430 has bad primary ratios that make it hard to start with an ignition that makes decent spark at cranking RPM (MZB) and that makes it virtually impossible to start with a PVL which has terrible/nonexistent spark at cranking RPM.
 
The 250 primary gears turn it over a lot faster than the 400 gears do so he might be OK, since I have not actually tested that combo I dont know for sure but if I was going to bet money I would say no, it wont work.
 
I'll put it in a 250. I have compression releases for all the engines. Some heads came with the extra holes.
 
using an 84 and later WR400 primary gear through kicker gear on a 430 gives it a better ration and starts better than a standard 430.
 
So everyone understands what we mean it's the speed of the kick that's makes a better spark. We don't get a good spark on a slower kick.
 
Lot of people badmouthing the poor SEM ignition but who grew up with Lucas stuff.
Owner was in the house of Lords in England sooo " Lord Lucas , Lord of Darkness " was the catch cry of the day.
 
A compression release will help by reducing kicking effort, but it not make the crank spin over faster, you need to change the primary ratios.
 
The 84+ LC 400WR is the best, but I believe once Husky brought the LC 430 back it had the same ratios as the LC 400WR.
 
I'm showing the LC 400 and the LC 430 both at 2.3 (33/76) for their primary drive ratio. Looks like the 250 could be had at 2.63(30/79). I see the 84 250 at 2.41(32/77). When was the first year 400?
 
Darrel78 said:
I'm showing the LC 400 and the LC 430 both at 2.3 (33/76) for their primary drive ratio. Looks like the 250 could be had at 2.63(30/79). I see the 84 250 at 2.41(32/77). When was the first year 400?
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Thats what I thought I remembered, the LC 430 had the same ratio as the LC 400WR, 84 was the first year.
 
dukkman said:
Be careful the later KTM ones look the same but the flywheel is on the other side so they run backwards in our application. They retard.
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Same as my 87 TE 510 the SEM stator is mounted to the Rt side case & the Mag is inverted / reversed . I have a question . Does direction of Flywheel in relation to stator have an effect ? Will a stator that is meant to be mounted internal work if it is mounted on an external application ? Thanks for all information
 
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