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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Stupid Thing I Had To Share."long Story"

beuford

beuford

Husqvarna
AA Class
When the motoplat went out on the air cooled 430 we wanted to check the timing setting with a dial gage for referance,for when it was replaced.
The gage needed a 3/8 spacer installed on the threads so it could be tightened down before the bezel hit the fins. A suspension washer off a YZ250 fit perfectly in the fin hole for the spark plug.
We checked the timing and took out the gage. 6 months later the motoplat was sent out and fixed.
After installing the motoplat, the engine would not start. Many Many Many kicks and push starting did not get anywhere.
Cleaning the carb did not help and was bewildered by the black fuel coming out of the exhaust pipe joint and yet the new plug still looked clean and dry!
Took the plug out yet again, to air out,this time put my finger over the plug hole and kicked too see if fuel was getting up there. I noticed something was moving slightly!
Yep, it was that 3/8 spacer, we forgot to take it out and never noticed it when putting the plug in.:banghead:
Bike started up a few kicks later and sounds great!
 
Reminds me of what I did the other day. I got a pinball machine back that I friend and family had borrowed for a couple of years. Was gonna put it in the garage and to fit it had to move my vintage beetle I restored many years ago. I saw the e-brake was pulled and banned myself as it it obvious it then had become stuck (or so I though). So I figured I start the engine and wiggle the brakes loose.
Started the engine and put it in gear and then hell broke loose. I quickle realized that I several months earlier had removed the current oil filter mesh to replace it with new parts and hence put the car on stands, but just high enough for me to easily access the oil plug and 'filter',wheels were still in slight contact withthe ground. The stands was put well under the car on the torsion rods and not visible, particularily so in a crowded garage.

Sad thing is that this is true, happended just a couple of weeks back. To top things out the engine is mint condition, or was, as I now have started it with zero oil and ran it for a while.

When things like this happens you just need to take a moment and realize how lucky you are in all other aspects of life and then there is nothing a few beers won't take care of.

Lars
 
Years ago I took my bike to the desert and rode about 30 miutes before the clutch started feeling funny. Then I remembered I forgot to put oil in the crankcase. Luckily, I was in sight of my truck.
 
I once helped a noob friend assemble his brand new gray-market Suzuki RG500 Gamma (square-4 two stroke) in his apartment living room. Got almost all done and I had to go. He finished it up and put oil in it, not realizing he had to put oil in the autolube tank and the transmission. He ran it that way until the countershaft seized up. He ended up selling it at a huge loss. I feel kinda guilty for not babysitting to the end. Hopefully it was for the best, that thing would have killed him. He used to say how he liked how quickly things got small in the rear view mirrors when he gassed it.
 
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