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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'76 WR250 help

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DrumIV

Husqvarna
As the title states, I have a '76 WR250 I'm riding/restoring, or I was 'till it took a crap last Sunday. My buddy(mechanic) was on it at the time, and says it's in the ignition and to round up the usual; points, cond., ect. I called Hall's, they say I'm s.o.l. Does anyone have a source? Has anybody done a conversion to modern ignition? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Nick
 
I think the 250WR was the only bike in the Husky range that year that came with points ignition. All the others used Motoplat.
No reason why you could not fit a system from one of the others. If of course you can still find a Motoplat that functions as it should.
Or as ruwfo mentioned, fit a new PVL / MZB / Electrex ignition.
 
Any condenser will do, I use any car one I can find cheap, don't put it behind the fly wheel, put it by the ignition coil clean and dress the points regap and retime, should be good for a bit more.
 
Thanks for the replies. According to the schematic, it has points. We haven't opened it up yet to verify, though. I'm going to look into the other options. I'd like to keep it as original as possible, but also has to be reliable. Thanks again.
 
Well, I just opened it up; it has points. It also looks like someone welded the flywheel to the crankshaft! I'm no mechanic, and I'm going to show this to mine, but this don't look good. Can a 360 crankshaft of the same year be used?
 
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