• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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wr360 carb choices

Well learned how bad the gurnter is,the seals in the bowl were shot so it kept pissing fuel and to make it worse it backfired and my kick start jumped off... Gotta take the case off now
 
I wanted to get a bing fixed up to use. The only slide i found for a 54 was 160 bucks from bing. I bought a mikuni for 100 bucks. Once jetted it works fine.
 
pentonparts.com they have bing carbs and parts for sale. jets, slides covers... has anyone ran a lectron on a vintage husqvarna bike before?
 
Dillon said:
has anyone ran a lectron on a vintage husqvarna bike before?
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yes piles of people. I have sold many to vintage guys. They love it. Lectron has been doing this for 40 years and they started by selling them to vintage guys. I have sold over 140 of these now. Almost everyone very happy. Guy with a 84 WR400 just got one from me and raves about it even though he dumped $300 in his stock carb to make it run half as good.
 
just put a second hand lectron on my 430 cost was $105 inc freight, started third kick no choke and ran and revved freely with only a hint of smoke , i stripped and cleaned the components before installation, only drawback is the air boot is about 4mm bigger than the intake opening and i have had to use a large o ring to take up the space.
yet to ride but sounds and runs better than the mikuni vm, tmx and the keihin pwk i tested these carbs from my other bikes and re-jetted.
 
jo360 said:
just put a second hand lectron on my 430 cost was $105 inc freight, started third kick no choke and ran and revved freely with only a hint of smoke , i stripped and cleaned the components before installation, only drawback is the air boot is about 4mm bigger than the intake opening and i have had to use a large o ring to take up the space.
yet to ride but sounds and runs better than the mikuni vm, tmx and the keihin pwk i tested these carbs from my other bikes and re-jetted.
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Have someone lathe you up a 4mm press fit ring to take up that gap and JB weld it on. You dont want that failing right there. Anyone with a lathe can make you that part in about 10 minutes. what size carb did you go with? Also what metering rod is in it? Lectron sells a pile of rods for different apps so make sure you have or get the right one to feed that beast.
 
its a 36mm but has no identifying number on the needle probably worn off due to its age, just been lucky with the set up runs good but been too busy to ride, hopefully this weekend if it cools down.
 
Motosportz said:
Have someone lathe you up a 4mm press fit ring to take up that gap and JB weld it on. You dont want that failing right there. Anyone with a lathe can make you that part in about 10 minutes. what size carb did you go with? Also what metering rod is in it? Lectron sells a pile of rods for different apps so make sure you have or get the right one to feed that beast.
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had an old vm 38 like the one pictured above right, cut 15mm off the inlet spigot and epoxy bonded that to the lectron ...fits great i also used the vm float valve which screws into the lectron with a bit of modification to the thread tapered vs parallel as this has a spring loaded tip and handles two stroke vibration better than the un sprung tip supplied with this old carb.power jet is the non adjustable kind but you can buy and fit the adjustor or change the jet(vm22 pilot) the bowl is still clear even though i would say its years old the clear bowl has been a real advantage setting the fuel level on this bike with a carb that is angled down toward the engine, did find the bowl weeps fuel if the float is set too high this is probably a result of the bowl warping due to being overtightened.looks very cool and unique with the clear bowl.
 
jo360 said:
the clear bowl has been a real advantage setting the fuel level on this bike with a carb that is angled down toward the engine, did find the bowl weeps fuel if the float is set too high this is probably a result of the bowl warping due to being overtightened.looks very cool and unique with the clear bowl.
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FYI - Lectron sells a Viton gasket to use on any clear bowl that might leak.
 
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