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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Calling Huskydogg or anybody else

smadams68

smadams68

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hey Guys,
After many months of work, I got my 82 WR 125 running this weekend. I ran it a few times for just a few minutes (starting the break in) and it has a tinging and/or high pitch rattling noise that sounds like it is coming from the left side of the lower cases (clutch pack side). It's not a bearing squeal but rather a rattle type noise. The noise disappears when in neutral idling. Pulling the clutch in while riding did not change anything. Any thoughts. Maybe this is typical of these years, maybe the clutch push rod needs adjustment (but the clutch feels fine). When I rode these bikes back in the day I was a youngster, dad did all the wrenching, I just twisted the throttle. Any thoughts before I pull the left cover off the motor and inspect. Thanks, Scott
 
Huskydoggg, I ran across a U Tube video you made concerning the left cover and assembling the kickstart mechanism the other day, that got me thinking about something. It would appear the tinging noise I had may be related to having too much preload on the spring mechanism. I just took to kick lever off and indexed it several splines and tinging is gone. Problem now is the mechanism does not hook up and turn the motor until about 80% through the stroke so bump starting is required. I guess that there is a fine line on setting up kicker preload. I will continue to play with it and maybe watch that video again. Would like to hear your feedback and any thoughts.
Scott
 
i have had that problem with my 510 from winding the kickstart spline too far as as well and had "that noise" I did not have to do any internal adjustment, only move the kick start one spline to the right or back if you know what i mean, so less preload.
i do remember it took quite a while to set the spring mech. up(very frustrating , needed a 3rd hand!), until you know how then its easy and quick
 
When I first assembled the motor, the kicker would not engage until nearly through the stroke. I then put some pre-load on the mechanism by simply pulling the kick start lever off and rotating it relative to the splined shaft as SA63 mentions. Evidently I went too far as it caused the tinging/rattling. So like you said, I simply removed the kicker and rotated it a three of four splines to remove some pre-load and noise is gone. I have since moved it back a little to find a happy medium, which resulted in no noise, but enough preload that the kicker engages early enough to start the bike. Like you mentioned, the process I describe never required removing the left cover and changing anything internal as detailed in the video by huskydoggg that I referenced.
 
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