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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1979 250 OR hard start

Also, when it "dies", it's always at or near idle after running a few minutes (pipe and cylinder hot), then I immediately pull the plug and it comes out wet....
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cruisetopdown said:
Sorry for the late replies, dealing with some family issues....... I had ruled out the ignition as I had it rebuilt by one of the vendors known on this sight. I sent the entire system and it came back repaired with a new wire and cap as well as a rewind. My problem is that this was/is a basket case that I am working on reviving, so the carb is an unknown.... plus I struggle with jetting and usually try to get the jetting close, then work on refinements. I did fill the float bowl with gas and the floats seem to come up together and are bouyant. I did make a few runs through the gears to clear it out and it started to run well, then died. Pulled the plug and it was actually "tan" if you will... but also wet, so I need to verify that the low speed/idle components are not way off in the carb. things are on hold for now until the family issues are resolved, but I will report my finding to help the next guy with similar issues.
thanks for the input,
w
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I have just gone through this nightmare. It is a bad ign. I had mine done by the vendor you mention. I do not have any issue with him but rewinds are touchy. I spent three days trying to sort out my bike which is the same as yours. 79250OR. Same exact issues. You can jet up or down,try every plug you want. new reeds, ground wires ect and nothing works. it actually will get worse. I rebuilt the engine and could not get it right. I put a good used stator on and the bike absolutely RIPS. Try good used stator.
 
Dwarf66 said:
I have just gone through this nightmare. It is a bad ign. I had mine done by the vendor you mention. I do not have any issue with him but rewinds are touchy. I spent three days trying to sort out my bike which is the same as yours. 79250OR. Same exact issues. You can jet up or down,try every plug you want. new reeds, ground wires ect and nothing works. it actually will get worse. I rebuilt the engine and could not get it right. I put a good used stator on and the bike absolutely RIPS. Try good used stator.
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Same story with my WRX400. Could never jet it, always wetting plugs but had spark. Replaced original SEM which was weak at best, with new aftermarket set up and bike cleaned up to get jetting sorted. Amazing transformation...
 
I would get rid of the 45 Pilot and put a 35 in there,it sounds like all your problems are at idle.
I have a 250CR 1978 and my jetting is
360 Main
Slide 2.0
Needle 6DH3
Pilot 35
I'm between 5 and 8 hundred feet above sea level.
Get rid of the 430 Main start with a 400
My friends have 390's and there not jetted as fat as yours is the objective here is to get it to idle the pilot controls the 1st quarter of the of throttle.
 
I decided to send the ignition back for testing just to verify it's condition after the rebuild. At the time of the original rebuild, I had asked to have it wound for lighting, which he did (at no cost to me).....turns out that the ignition was getting some type of electrical pulse due to the lighting coils and was causing interference. Vance called to explain and has sent me a corrected system which should arrive soon. I will address the jetting once I get it going and will report back. Thanks to everyone for your input, it's what makes this site great.
w
 
I lost my father last fall and have been dealing with that since. He was a great guy and is the one responsible for getting me hooked on MX and off-road riding and racing . When I was a little tyke, he would take his CT1 Yamaha out with his buddies and ride all through the south Florida open land, then come back and I'd listen to the stories and laughter of the group....good times. I decided to go with a new powerdynamo ignition, installed it and it fired and ran on the third kick! Warmed it up and it spurred like a kitten! Thanks to everyone for you input......
Cheers,
W
 
I am glad you fixed the problem. I know its hard to drop $500 for a new ignition, but it really is smart money. I learned this the hard way ten years ago on a Maico that would not start predictably nor run consistently. I was sure it was a carburetor problem or jetting problem, even though I had swapped several carbs, both Bing and Mikuni, and they didnt fix it. Finally in a last resort I decided to take a shot at a new ignition, even though I was still convinced it was a carburetor problem. The new ignition fixed it, but it took me almost 18 months to do what I should have done right away.

The moral to this story is, no matter how long you try, you can not fix a bad ignition with jetting.
 
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