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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

430LC spark plug

oldbikedude

oldbikedude

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It doesn't get anymore basic than this. I guess this applies to 400 & 500LC's as well. What plug do you like to use & what gap?
 
ngk b8es for me in all swedes. would use a nippon denso equivalent i needed to tho. ill admit i set it by eye anymore but when running the motoplats i set it a hair tighter than book spec. even better, i like to pair that up with the hard plastic ngk cap as well. i wont use chumpions in anything. i take them out and install ngk. my husky line trimmer came with a champion and the tuneup kit came with an ngk.
 
When people have trouble starting their Husky with their NGK fitted I hand them a Champion N3C and away they go. Trouble is they never return the plug to me! This is just my experience with the early 80's two stroke models running both Motoplat and PVL ignitions.
 
I was just wondering guys. I have been using NGK B8ES & used splitfires for over 20 years but they don't make them anymore. B8ES is whats in it now. What gap you guys at?
 
B8ev at 0.5mm
But mine is a bitch to start.
Going to try a BP7ES.
Hopefully it will burn clean easier when I'm crusing.
 
I have a B8ES in mine @ .32 gap. Stick it in 2nd gear, rock it back & forth a couple times to prime the cyl., place back in neutral, then one or two kicks with the choke on & BOOM! Try that Nikel.
 
oldbikedude said:
I have a B8ES in mine @ .32 gap. Stick it in 2nd gear, rock it back & forth a couple times to prime the cyl., place back in neutral, then one or two kicks with the choke on & BOOM! Try that Nikel.
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Usually do just that.
Works when cold but is a real bitch when warm.
Need some work on the jettings on 0-1/4 throttle.

Got myself the Bp7es today witch is the equivalent of the Autolite 4055 that Husqvarna recommends.
 
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