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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New 300 start & idle

R

Rik Lipscomb

Husqvarna
A Class
Finally got an opportunity yesterday to kick off my new 12 300 thats been collecting dust for a month. After a lot of kicking, it would not fire until i finally twisted in a 1/4 throttle then after warming up and riding up and down the street a few times, it still would not idle. It is all stock and I do not know how the carb was set up from the factory. It seemed to run okay the little bit I rode it but, for now, where should I start on adjustments to address the difficult start and no idle problem?

Thanks
 
I don't know if any of the 2012 models had this problem, but my 2011 came with all wrong jetting (all way too lean), needle and slide. Husqvarna had to send out a box with the correct starter jet, pilot jets, needles, slide and main jets in it. From there, I had to get the carb set up nicely. Float level was too high, the recommended pilot jet, a #45 was a bit too rich, so now I have a #40 in it (and may go smaller), and set the air screw at 1 3/4 turns out. My bike didn't want to idle at first either, but the more I played with the jetting and float level, the easier it was to for the bike to want to idle. It runs good now on the 420 main jet, #5 slide, GAY needle middle clip position, #80 starter jet....just a tad rich right off the bottom, but I am using Motorex at 60 to 1. Lots of jetting information here:
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/250-300-360-jetting-database.8881/
 
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