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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Motor won't quit!

Hi all, thanks again for your comments. Finally getting to the bottom of this and its all starting to make sense. 2premo's explanation to what is happening with the plug seems to fit. For one thing the ignition was slightly advanced. Shutting off the (leaking) fuel valve did appear to make it worse. I'm also inclined to agree that although there are a lot of revs, there is not much power/ load behind it. The throttle slide was not that far off the bottom of the carb. Stalling with the bike in gear and brake on did not occur to me but would have been the way to go. Followed by flipping the clip on the float bowl of the Bing (i have the early type without choke). I will know for next time..... Kris
 
A friend thought it was ok to pull the plug wire when his went into run away rpm.
Almost wet my pants laughing at the zap he got.

:naughty:
 
BufoBolt said:
Hi all, thanks again for your comments. Finally getting to the bottom of this and its all starting to make sense. 2premo's explanation to what is happening with the plug seems to fit. For one thing the ignition was slightly advanced. Shutting off the (leaking) fuel valve did appear to make it worse. I'm also inclined to agree that although there are a lot of revs, there is not much power/ load behind it. The throttle slide was not that far off the bottom of the carb. Stalling with the bike in gear and brake on did not occur to me but would have been the way to go. Followed by flipping the clip on the float bowl of the Bing (i have the early type without choke). I will know for next time..... Kris
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It is not the plug glowing hot or the timing, 100% for sure you have an air leak somewhere. The engine needs to be pressure tested to locate the leak.
 
BufoBolt said:
Hi all, thanks again for your comments. Finally getting to the bottom of this and its all starting to make sense. 2premo's explanation to what is happening with the plug seems to fit. For one thing the ignition was slightly advanced. Shutting off the (leaking) fuel valve did appear to make it worse. I'm also inclined to agree that although there are a lot of revs, there is not much power/ load behind it. The throttle slide was not that far off the bottom of the carb. Stalling with the bike in gear and brake on did not occur to me but would have been the way to go. Followed by flipping the clip on the float bowl of the Bing (i have the early type without choke). I will know for next time..... Kris
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all our lives we learn, hopefully with no long term negative results
 
Kartwheel68 said:
It is not the plug glowing hot or the timing, 100% for sure you have an air leak somewhere. The engine needs to be pressure tested to locate the leak.
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I'm guessing most likely candidate would be the crankshaft seals but how to perform a pressure test?
 
Easiest way to kill it is drop it on the ground. knowck it into gear with the back break on and dump the clutch. when mine runs dry of juice it revs its knackers off while im moving. stalling it always works.
 
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