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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1982 wr/xc 250 carb.

husky300

husky300

Husqvarna
AA Class
My buddy has a 82 wr or xc. but his carb is cracked on the main body. will i need that exact carb or can i use a new more modern carb. I do not have the bike in front of me so i don’t have any # or size off of the bike. I'm just going off what he has told me. He is not looking to "show" restore the bike but get it going as a trail bike.
 
H300 --- I moved this so that it would/could be viewed more in the main Vintage forum.... hope you don't mind...


Also , you should be able to pick up a brand new Mikuni for around $ 160 to $180 jetted the way you want it..... round or flat slide... or even pick one up off of ebay ... or post up a wanted post in the Vintage classifieds on here....someone will kick one up for you!

T
 
From the parts I have the round slide for the dual shock models, are longer than the more modern stuff. I suspect any 38 mm round slide body (off a husky to be safe) of the correct length would work if it isn't too worn. I would also check the diameter of the part which goes into the rubber near the reed cage if you switch to a more modern carb. I ended up using the rubber for the 40 mm carb and building up the neck of the carb with gas tank repair epoxey instead of stretching the 38 mm rubber.

It is hard to understand what you are looking at in the picture however what is shown is that an aluminum extention has been added to increase the length of the carb. this is a 38mm carb from a 2002 wr 360 on an 500 vingate left kick air cooled. I guess if one could get a longer rubber boot that would simplify matters.

Fran
 

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HuskyT. Thanks and I do not mind.

Fran...K. with the mod to the newer carb does it affect the air flow through the carb? I looks as if you have been using the bike so how does it runwith it.
 
The carb I had was the 40 mm one with an even heavier slide than the 38mm ones. The idle stop screw finally had the threads give out and the bore the slide rides in was very worn. It starts better now and the idle can now be adjusted however I can't really comment as to how it compares to when the 40 mm (round slide) carb was fresh. Surely the newer flat slide ones must work better if that is all that comes on bikes for 20 years or so but the round slides have needle jets, I guess now if the hole the needle goes in wears you replace the whole body.
 
i have a spare 38mm roundslide carb body from my wr 250 83 . will need a clean and jets . intrested? cheers
 
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