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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bing slides ....

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Husqvarna
AA Class
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I was talking to a fellow CH member about Bing number #1 slides ... these are the carb slides fitted to most Huskys with Bing 54 model carbs from 69' to 73' - From 74' on Bing carbs had a new slide #53 .... It's primary difference is that it is designed for engines with reed valves and does not work well in non reed valve engines. I tried it and it worked in my CR400 but the idle was off - it was hunting.

You can buy a #53 slide new from Bing for $32.00 - where as the early slide #1 from Bing is $160 shipped.

I measured both types of slide and found only one primary difference... I have made a brass plate to account for this and believe that I have modified the #53 slide to #1 spec ...

Have a look at the pictures .... I would like to know what people think. If this is something that there might be a demand for then I could have a die made to have a batch produced.
 
Thanks Retro, I think it's a great idea. Can I be the first to try it? Yes, I'm willing to sacrifice my time to put some R&D in to your idea. Of course, it may take a full season to make a concious decision.
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