• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

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Excellent idea. There's no problems with the four strokes except for the Bonneville needing some updating. The only other 2 stroke is a 1964 BSA Bantam. If you know Bantam's they tend to go on and on. A new motor is about 200 euro complete and this one just had a new one installed. The only other question mark is a 650 Yamaha of uncertain vintage. I bought the bike and frame with a good motor complete with a Flat Track Seat and Tank. I bought a pair of Honda Motard wheels, Aprilla forks and Brembo front brakes and I'm still looking for additional bits to finish it. I have no solid idea about what it will become but it keeps me off the roads and out of the pubs.

I just have no knowledge base for old Husqvarna 2 strokes. That's why all you guys and this sight are invaluable to me.

Many Thanks !
 
Jim Deady said:
The only other question mark is a 650 Yamaha of uncertain vintage. I bought the bike and frame with a good motor complete with a Flat Track Seat and Tank.
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The first new bike I ever bought as a Yamaha 650 Special, back in '78. Served me well, was great fun, but I needed something larger to haul around the "excess baggage" when on trips. Eventually ended up with larger Yamahas and finally graduated to Harleys from that point on. Dirt bikes....a zillion of 'em, but never brand new.

So, get that ol' Husky running Jim! It's a 2 stroke, nothing magical, they're all the same regardless of make - but each has their own little idosyncracies.
 
Last time I filled the crankcase with fuel, I turned the fuel off, opened the throttle wide and kicked vigorously for 10 kicks or so and it began to blubber and then after a few more kicks it held a low rpm while it shot fuel out the exhaust port / pipe join and out the muffler! don't have it pointing at the washing!!!:eek:
You can also do the same down a descent hill in 3rd gear, it will soon clear out and fire up.

is there a hill in Gortahig Jim?
 
suprize said:
Last time I filled the crankcase with fuel, I turned the fuel off, opened the throttle wide and kicked vigorously for 10 kicks or so and it began to blubber and then after a few more kicks it held a low rpm while it shot fuel out the exhaust port / pipe join and out the muffler! don't have it pointing at the washing!!!:eek:
You can also do the same down a descent hill in 3rd gear, it will soon clear out and fire up.

is there a hill in Gortahig Jim?
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Surely you've heard the term "git a rope!". That works too in the flatlands. A couple of beers and a good friend with a truck, a nice long rope, chug along in 3rd and wait for the fire. Just pump that nasty fuel right outa there!
 
the rope works well....i used that method alot in my younger days, lol....watch out when she fires up!
 
Ropes are great until they shoot across to one side of the cross brace then it gets real exciting:eek::lol:
 
suprize said:
Last time I filled the crankcase with fuel, I turned the fuel off, opened the throttle wide and kicked vigorously for 10 kicks or so and it began to blubber and then after a few more kicks it held a low rpm while it shot fuel out the exhaust port / pipe join and out the muffler! don't have it pointing at the washing!!!:eek:
You can also do the same down a descent hill in 3rd gear, it will soon clear out and fire up.

is there a hill in Gortahig Jim?
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Is there a hill ? Try to find a flat. Everything on the tip of the Beara is either straight up or straight down with some switch back curves tossed in to make sure you're paying attention. I like this response. It's quick and simple like me. The simple part that is, quick went out the window years ago !
 
Old Geezer said:
The first new bike I ever bought as a Yamaha 650 Special, back in '78. Served me well, was great fun, but I needed something larger to haul around the "excess baggage" when on trips. Eventually ended up with larger Yamahas and finally graduated to Harleys from that point on. Dirt bikes....a zillion of 'em, but never brand new.

So, get that ol' Husky running Jim! It's a 2 stroke, nothing magical, they're all the same regardless of make - but each has their own little idosyncracies.
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I like your choice of bikes. The only one I've never had is a Harley. The Yamaha will be interesting. I think the final choice of tire will determine it's use.

Husky and idosrncracies are the same definition. I'll figure it out.

Many Thanks,
Jim
 
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