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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky auto Problem

stormer254

stormer254

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have a problem with my 1982 Husky Auto, the springs for the first gear clutch broke and got chewed up. I had some springs from a parts engine but when fitted the engine stalled every time I tried to engage gear. I rolled her down the slope on my drive and managed to get her into gear, she then changed up and down the box fine but every time I slowed down the engine would not disengage and would stall. I originally thought the springs from the parts engine where tired, they were easy to fit, and not holding the brass weights back. I then managed to obtain a new set of original springs and fitted those, they were a bit harder to fit, I also cleaned up the grooves as shown in the workshop manual. However exactly the same result stalled, when I tried to put it in to gear. Pushed her into the back of the shed so I could have a good sulk.
Tried again today , stripped clutch and refitted, checked the freewheel bearing, perfect, reassembled but no change, the first gear clutch seems to be permanently engaged, stalls every time I engage gear and after using the sloping drive trick again , the engine will not disengage from the clutch. The next stage is a box of matches but before I take that step any ideas please?:confused:
 
Worked perfectly before the springs broke.
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Problem solved by some advice I got from OZ forum. When I was torquing the clutch drum up it removed the end play and made the drum bind hence the permanent drive scenario, I guess the crank got moved slightly when the springs broke and got jammed against the cover.
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That is good to hear you got it figured out because I couldn't think of anything short of shortening the springs. Just from memory and it is at least 15 years ago I had one of those apart and seem to recall the drive end of the crank had moved out from the crank wheel perhaps half a mm or so. I think I made a jig to push it back in but ended up buying a new crank as they were the least expensive crank of all the available ones for some strange reason and mine had some strange pitting on the rod. I find it hard to vision how the crank could shift much in the bearings, the ignition side bearing might be able to shift out in it's bore.

fran
 
I am happy to hear that you solved the first gear problem and you got your carburetor issues sorted. I am also happy to hear that you were able to find some new first gear springs.

I would like to buy a new set of springs for my 420AE before mine give up the ghost. Can you point me to a source?

I might be in the UK on a business trip the end of July so maybe I can pick them up then.

Thanks, Steve
 
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