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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

new here and new bike. 430wr 1982

plastikosmd

plastikosmd

Husqvarna
C Class
Restored and well cared for with a ton of parts, documents etc.
I like the older stuff. I grew up around yz/kx/cr's, never saw a husky or frankly knew of them. I guess they were quite the bike in the late 70/early 80's, but expensive for the time. This one popped up and I started doing some research. It should be a fun bike for the woods.


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Wow what a fast bike. Bit much for some of the rocky trails near me. Thing wants to climb every tree I see.

Also got to experience a runaway for the first time. I was letting the bike idle and run itself out of fuel to drain the carb. Well after a min it went to wot. Kill switch, nada. Plug wire, nada. Fuel shutoff, already off. No co2 extinguisher close, I was able to choke it out. Phew. Think I am deaf now tho!
 
NOT a good thing to do, "run itself out of fuel to drain the carb", remember it's a 2 stroke & the only lube the piston gets is from the fuel/oil mix.

Also sounds like you may have mag side crank seal drying up, if it did what you described. Easy fix though.

Real nice bike...

Husky John
 
ruwfo said:
NOT a good thing to do, "run itself out of fuel to drain the carb", remember it's a 2 stroke & the only lube the piston gets is from the fuel/oil mix.


Real nice bike...

Husky John
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It seems pretty standard in the outdoor equipment, sting trimmers etc, to have running out of fuel at idle preferable to storing full of fuel for half a year or so. The all position carb on those doesn't really have a float bowl though. There generally is a plug to change the main jet that works good for draining fuel.
 
if it was running away and still running and if no fuel it is running on something....bad seal and sucking oil from trans
 
ruwfo said:
NOT a good thing to do, "run itself out of fuel to drain the carb", remember it's a 2 stroke & the only lube the piston gets is from the fuel/oil mix.

Also sounds like you may have mag side crank seal drying up, if it did what you described. Easy fix though.

Real nice bike...

Husky John
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100 percent agree on this...if i wanted to cause a runaway i would do this..first thing to do when a bike runs away is choke, but this likely wont help if its running out of fuel.
very nice looking bike by the way, hopefully no damage was sustained running away
 
Nice bike indeed, I love the WR's what they are saying is when you run the fuel out you are running your engine lean (not good) In your case it sounded like your petcock is leaking just enough to keep the engine going or your crank seal is possible leaking and the engine is creating a vacuum and sucking in trans. oil but it would have really been smoking like a freight train if that was the case.
Make sure you check your petcock is not leaking thru because one day soon it will flood the engine filling the bottom end and you will never get it cranked no matter how many times you kick it.Thus wearing your kicker out even more than it is. At most you could shut off fuel and run it just a min. just be care full and don't run it all out. Good luck , lots of super cool guys here daily.. So ask away if need be, These are really well made bikes . I too had some jap bikes and will never go back now.
 
is there anything in the extinguisher thats corrosive? i have had good luck treating my fuel with startron ethanol treatment, i have left bikes sit all winter with it, no problem. i now run 50/50 110vp/91 ethanol free.
 
Never, ever, allow a two stroke motorcycle to run out of fuel, you are causing a runaway lean condition that can cause severe damage to the engine (seizure) just like an air leak whether its running under power or idling. If you want to drain the carb for long term storage, just unscrew the plug on the bottom of the float bowl, it is very easy to get to on a 250/400/430/500 Husky.
 
Justin, nothing that has ever hurt my stuff, (CO2), don't use dry powder ones. I have had a run away diesel before, also one on a small dozer. A shot of CO2 into the intake is a quick stop. As others have said, peacock is leaking, easy fix. Thx all
 
Not really bragging here, but I got my first husky when I was 14, nobody explained this idea of draining the float bowl to me, and I went years without doing it and no substantial problems (I've had the bike over 20 years, and only had to rebuild the carb once).

I do drain bowls now, especially when using gas containing ethanol, but just sayin' if you're not letting the bike sit for a long stretch, my experience would suggest that petcock off and wet bowl is fine.
 
Eric The Leg said:
Not really bragging here, but I got my first husky when I was 14, nobody explained this idea of draining the float bowl to me, and I went years without doing it and no substantial problems (I've had the bike over 20 years, and only had to rebuild the carb once).

I do drain bowls now, especially when using gas containing ethanol, but just sayin' if you're not letting the bike sit for a long stretch, my experience would suggest that petcock off and wet bowl is fine.
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im 34 myself...things were different 20 years ago with fuel..now an additive must be run or just non ethanol fuel used..
 
20 years ago you could do that, but regular pump fuel goes bad in as little as 3 months now, even if it contains no ethanol.
 
Kartwheel68 said:
20 years ago you could do that, but regular pump fuel goes bad in as little as 3 months now, even if it contains no ethanol.
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i use stabilizer in everything anymore regardless of ethanol content. its good tho at least the ethanol free i get locally is in its own pump from its own tank at least.
 
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