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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

kickstarter on 390 fail, need ideas and experience!

VegasDesertRidr

VegasDesertRidr

Husqvarna
hey guys, i took out my 78 390CR and rode it around my camp a few times and it was running really great then later i went to start it again and it felt like i lost all tension on the kick start once, but then i kicked again and it started up. i rode around a bit and noticed that the kick start lever was now very loose, flopping all over the place as i rode, i shut off and checked again. there is now no tension on the lever at all, i can move it through its entire range of motion with one finger and all that i am rewarded with is an unsettling 'BOINK' sound from the inside of the trans case about halfway through its travel... any ideas on what i effed up???
 
You didn't f anything up. Parts ware and parts brake as thats just a fact of vintage bike ownership. Now as soon as you pull the cover off, your going to figure it out real quick. Their are only like seven parts to the kick start assembly thats inside the engine. The shaft, two springs, two circlips, a driving wheel, and a driving disc.
 
thanks guys, i will be disassembling soon, any other tips on the take down? i don't want to mess it up and i have never been in the case of this or any other bike, but i have worked on cars my whole life so i'm not all thumbs.
 
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