• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

83 XC500 Ignition and resto

S

silverfox

Husqvarna
AA Class
My new to me 83 XC 500. Wanted one for years to go with my 72 CR400 and 73 CR250. Bought this one 3/4 finished. Guy has not had it running but has rebuilt the motor and its ready to rock, Sort of!! It came with a PVL ignition. I have set the gap and timed it. Whenkicking it over it seems to have very little spark, A solid kick seems to have enough spark, but you realy get a full kick on these things with the plug in. Is that how the PVL works? Never had one before. Thinking of putting the motplate back in and trying it, but unsure of its condition. Speaking of them do you just put it at tdc and then line the pin hole up? Cheers from OZ

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the 500 looks great..
the pvl ignitions are known to have little spark for big bores, due to low rpm kicking.
for the motoplat..the hols are lined up, it sparks..but instead of tdc, you want this before tdc..i forget if the 500 is different than smaller engines..but you will want spark at about 1.5mm btdc or so..
 
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