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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Kicking the 500s

Adjust the timing per the Husky tech bulletin, prime the cylinder every time you go to start it, then it will start. Mine starts on 1st kick as long as i prime it, & kick it like a 4 stroke & yes mine was a bitch to start too before i adjusted the timing & followed this starting procedure. Damn near sold it cause it wouldn't
start, boy i'm glad i stuck with it.

Husky John
 
so what do you set timing to ?. i see as much as 2.8 and plenty saying back it off from there .
not actually sure where my timing is at but it didnt kick back much and had plenty of power .
 
I was told by vance smith that the motoplat coil with the necked down end has a auto retard feature in it.I put one of these coils on my mix and match 380 husky I built and it made a big differance starting.I still use the -go pass tdc,recock and kick method-
 
I run a Vulcan decomp on my 500. Wouldn't even think about not using one. Also great on my 78 390 as it protects the delicate kickstart mechanism.

You can adjust the engagement on the 500 by packing out the tapered bar/ guide ramp the guides the sliding engagement pawl. Set it so it is just out of engagement when the kickstart is not in use. I had to pack mine out by at least 1 mm to make it work properly.
 
are you sure u are describing a husky 500 kist start ? i dont recall a tapered bar? or a guide that would be b affected by shimming ?
 
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