• 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Intermitently feels as if there is no air movement on kick over

Now if you release the clutch by holding the lever to the handle bar the engine won't turn over too. The kick starter gearing goes thru the clutch. You can't start it in gear.
 
OK, I had the clutch apart. All looks really good.
The float on the push rod is approx .020" between the cam and the clutch housing.
All seems well in that department.
I measured the distance spacers that sit inside the clutch springs. These came in at 22mm long. The overall spring length is 37mm.
Can someone please compare theirs for me? I'm thinking with these springs, the tension is what is causing the "heavy" feel, and maybe some longer spacers are required to ease the "pull".
The cable runs in a free route, lubed, nice pull angle against clutch arm etc.

On a side note, when the kick start mechanism is assembled, with the clutch cover off the bike, when I rotate the kicker shaft, the return spring kicks off center and doesn't look right. Picture to follow.
The bushes are running .003" clearance, no elongation, good circlip etc.
 
Here you can see the spring compressed more on the one side . Because of this , when the kickstarter is operated, the whole spring rolls off center and is marking the case . Can someone please confirm if this is the norm?


Update:
Clutch tension is solved!
The only thing I did was dump the oil, clean the plates, refresh the oil and remove and replace the cable.
There was a bit of crust/mud in the perch....like alot! So I presume it was "pre-loading" the cable a small bit? This may explain the starting with the clutch in" like symptoms also. Awaiting a delivery from husqvarna-parts and the pipe back from coating and will give her a test.

For those who are running the motion pro terminator clutch cable, can I please request a measurement of wire length that protrudes the sheath? Looking to confirm it will fit snug in the Magura perches with no mods.

Thanks very much guys
 

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