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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

everythings great cept bloback! no airbox! substitutes?!?

H

hebbyg

Husqvarna
B Class
guys,
The entire airbox is missing for my 73 CR250.
Likely thrown away by folks.
I have a mikuni on there right now, and I've got the thing running reasonably well and it has tons of potential, good compression,
everything else is there and it pulls great. but I just can't tune it without some restriction, and I just can't ride in the dust and mud without and airbox.
in fact...it really doesnt' like running with the bare carb very much at all. especially at higher rpms. it is then that I discovered the phenomenon of 'blow back' thru the carb, on non-reeded 2 strokes.
I was using a small pod, and I believe I was saturating it with fuel, which would eventually lead to bad choking.
I am dying to ride it safely, but would like to know if any of you have made substitutes, or used particular filters in the past, that I may base my final jetting on.
I had read online that without a velolcity stack, or some kind of plenum maybe, that the non reed 2 strokes do this naturally.
Can I get a little help?
 
Call John at Vintage Husky in San Marcos California and he can probably locate an airbox for you....

T
 
I'll bet you can still get a "green weenie" from Uni Filter, if you can't locate an airbox.:D
 
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