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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

430 LC deco exercise

The water jacket goes almost to the spark plug; runs over the combustion dome. No way to miss it from the top.
 
Darrel, what's this.. a decon?
I thought your 430 always started first kick with that Lectron?

I could use one though. :)
 
everfree said:
Darrel, what's this.. a decon?
I thought your 430 always started first kick with that Lectron?

I could use one though. :)
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I'm getting fatter and lower to the ground apparently; these things are more difficult to kick these days!
Tony is working with me on making this exercise automatic via a vacuum operated decompression valve. Should this prove successful we may have to make more of them. I don't figure the operators are getting any younger...
 
an easier start never hurts

especially on the side of a steep single line trail in the snow with a sawn log pressing in your back and the rear wheel hanging on the edge of a slippery rock:confused: .....in the immortal words of Jerry Harrison...."how did I get here??"
 
A lot of talk here on decompression release devices, I honestly don't understand it. If everything is working as it should and you learn the technique, what's the big deal. I have a 430 Auto which definitely doesn't make things any easier, I don't have a problem. I'm in my 50's 160 pounds 5'9", I don't see the big deal. I like gadgets and appreciate the effort, but don't see the need.

I know I'll take some flack for my opinion, and I am not bashing anyone's clever engineering. I just don't see the need.

While we're at it, it pains me to watch some one stand beside there bike and kick with their right foot. It looks sooooo damn awkward, I know we call this section left kickers for where the kicker is located, but lets embrace it and actually kick it with our left boot.

Paul
 
Palito said:
...While we're at it, it pains me to watch some one stand beside there bike and kick with their right foot. It looks sooooo damn awkward, I know we call this section left kickers for where the kicker is located, but lets embrace it and actually kick it with our left boot. Paul
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I don't know about your machine, but mine has a big fat pipe on the left side, which makes it hard to get a good purchase on the kick lever with my left foot...sometimes right just works better!
JT
 
jack topper said:
I don't know about your machine, but mine has a big fat pipe on the left side, which makes it hard to get a good purchase on the kick lever with my left foot...sometimes right just works better!
JT
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you are correct, the single shock bikes in this thread and palitos auto are much different than your 74.
 
for some reason, its a heap easier to kick back with the right foot when your off the bike. left footing is for tight spots only...

a lot of +55's struggle to light these things up....as you will find out, your capabilities at 50 are very diminished after 55.

at 57 - 58 im just falling a f*kn apart. I can now see that I probably wont be able to ride in two to three years whereas two years ago I was thinking of riding the 4 day enduro here on the 400. that's just out of reach now.
 
suprize said:
for some reason, its a heap easier to kick back with the right foot when your off the bike. left footing is for tight spots only
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ive always wondered what foot husky riders use when they are on a rh kick machine. i tried standing on the right side and using my left leg to kick and that wasnt happening, lol. on lh kick machines i use my right leg if the terrain dictates.
most of the 70s huskies just suck to kick in general. awful levers
 
Would go with the vacuum diaphragm type connected to the carb manifold if I had the liquid cooled motor had one on my 2001 360 worked great and no chance of dirt getting in the mechanism or head.
 
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