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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

How to ?

Jim Deady

Jim Deady

Geezer
I just bought a totally restored 1978 250. The delivery guy dropped it off while we were out and put it in the garage. This is my first Husqvarna, my first dirt bike and my first 2 stroke and did I mention I'm 67 ? There's no owners manual so I don't know which direction to put the petcock to start it ! Now that's tragic ! Everything I own points straight down to start so I assume this does but I don't want a heart attack if I'm wrong. I looked all over the internet and I can't find an owners manual. Can anybody help ?
 
check under our technical reference section and you will be able to print or download all the info you could want for the ol girl....yes, down is the on position
 
As I recall, Husky usually positioned the lever to the inside so it wouldn't get moved by the riders leg, I'm guessing.
Remember the petcock is left hand thread and the nut to the tank is right hand. The trick is to loosen one and tighten the other until the petcock is tight and positioned where you want it. If you only tighten the nut to the tank it's hard to get it in the right position and it will most likely leak because the petcock isn't sealing to the tank outlet.
 
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