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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Not many sleeps left now until this comes home

Suprize, I pestered the heck out of Iain at MXM in the UK to modify their standard 84 decal set to suit the four stroke. Must admit I was a bit anal but the result is close to original Husky graphics and font. You will need to do some cutting to get them to fold around the curvature at the front of the side covers - two strokes are nice and flat there. Mount holes are different to two strokes also.

As far as the ignition goes - don't you worry, the inverted good ignition also is not reliable! I had to replace the one on my 87 LC 510 with a HPI/Electrix World set up. Great upgrade. The ignition cover gets very hot in there with several mods back in the day to fit vent hoses or cut holes in the cover and use foam to keep dust out (desert races only!) Encasing electrical wires in epoxy resin as SEM did doesn't help with cooling!
 
Michel Dufayard said:
You can put valves, seals, guides from 510 telc , isnt'it ?
The parts # of TE and TELC are different but if I remember you can put one for the other.
You can also find aftermarket valves.
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Michel, I used Kibblewhite valves and springs. Used the springs from their TE 410 kit. Valves are listed by Kibblewhite for the elderly 510's. Got OEM guides from Halls but Kiblewhite also have them. Quite possible the LC parts will fit but I do know the intake valve on the LC is bigger. I didn't change my LC guides so I have nothing to compare to the AC guides for you sorry.



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I didn't realise that the later ign's gave trouble? ol mate had a new 85 and his bike was still spot on 4 years later when he sold it. he used it as a farm bike, got flogged everyday! only did one rebuild after 2 seasons of hard racing and general riding.
 
suprize said:
I didn't realise that the later ign's gave trouble? ol mate had a new 85 and his bike was still spot on 4 years later when he sold it. he used it as a farm bike, got flogged everyday! only did one rebuild after 2 seasons of hard racing and general riding.
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i have an 83 xc500 motoplat ignition thats had a few hours on it on several bikes. still works perfect and starts a 430 currently in 1-2 kicks hot or cold. the original edison lightbulb is also still burning...
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my 400 motosplat is still churning out some watts in a more than acceptable fashion. I never had trouble with the SEM in my old 240 but I had heard of issues and used to keep it spotless.
 
I think the four stroke heat soak doesn't go well with the SEM. My 84 500 auto SEM is still alive but I changed the CDI for a chinese pit bike set up and it now starts reliably - thanks dukkman for the lead. My 84 240WR (sweet bike) has a SEM that is still going well. Swedish Electrical Mystery.....
 
neato Berg, what a beauty, you'll sort it.

One went by me today while I was waiting at a crosswalk, looked pretty ratty chugging at about 600 rpms in traffic!
what a coinkydink.

All those fins waving at me..

will you report on progress, mods, and upgrades?
 
Bodger said:
neato Berg, what a beauty, you'll sort it.

One went by me today while I was waiting at a crosswalk, looked pretty ratty chugging at about 600 rpms in traffic!
what a coinkydink.

All those fins waving at me..

will you report on progress, mods, and upgrades?
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Coinkydink ......now that's a new one on me. I will have to google it I suppose!

Bike is running. Experienced a backfire that blew the carb off the manifold and flame shot out to add to the fun!. Very exciting. It happened as I flicked the choke off (normally they won't start with the choke on) - must have leaned it out suddenly and the mixture ignited prematurely with the inlet valves still open. The ignitions fires on every stroke - not just the compression stroke however I am not sure if this is the reason for the backfire or if it auto ignited due to heat from the exhaust gases. Anyway quite spectacular....and I don't want it happening again!

Quickly checked the air filter ( foam one) to make sure it wasn't burnt and noticed the backfire mesh wasn't fitted so I did that too ..whoops.

Started OK after fixing the carb back on and now need to get it to the track or trail for sorting and grin inducing fun.
 
ol mates used to do that hoik the carb off in spectacular fashion. the first time he kicked it for 5 mins before he realised the carb was dangling on the cables...I suspect its timing or too lean. ive had a couple of minor back fires but nothing like that. mine is quite rich due to the very worn delorto
 
My Delorto is quite good and fully rebuilt (except for slide which I didn't replace as it seems fine)

Timing is not possible to check as my ignition cover has no peep hole for using a strobe light on. I just set the stator in the middle of the slotted holes as recommended. Is there a way to check manually with an inverted stator arrangement - can't see anything with the cover on of course.

As I will now be sure to not try to start it with the choke on I won't be operating it in the " danger zone" again.....hopefully!
 
Urban dictionary....Coinkydink

A coincidence, usually used in a gay sense, but will make someone laugh.

You got some booty last night too? What a coinkydink!!
 
even tho the delly is pouring fuel in, the choke must be used and it starts best cold. once its hot unless you nail the start technique well, it fluffs about...don't forget its cold down here in sunny vic (not atm as were on a run of high 35+s for a week) that's celcius for you pond dwellers over there
 
PEZBerq said:
Urban dictionary....Coinkydink

A coincidence, usually used in a gay sense, but will make someone laugh.

You got some booty last night too? What a coinkydink!!
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'Mongo straight!'

I have an empty SR500 Yam frame and all but the engine, the Hus 510 engine sure would be fun in that basically sorted street frame...all those finny fins!

Then again, so would a 430 or 490-500 2T motor...zoom!

but it wouldn't be stock and people would talk....
 
check out old mate from englands 430 motard build. about 3 year's ago it was....cant think of his tag
 
Bodger said:
'Mongo straight!'

I have an empty SR500 Yam frame and all but the engine, the Hus 510 engine sure would be fun in that basically sorted street frame...all those finny fins!

Then again, so would a 430 or 490-500 2T motor...zoom!

but it wouldn't be stock and people would talk....
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Thank you for educating me Bodger. Mongo was a classic in Blazing Saddles!
 
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