1987 250WR

I found this on craigslist at the beginning of summer and have just about finished refurbishing it. The only items I have left to sort out are handguards and Odo/speedo.

I will post here some of the photos I have from working on it over the past two months, but I really wish I took more photos of the process.

Photos from the C-list ad:

It was pretty rough, but did run. The plastics and wheels were all spray bombed. It had a purple handlebars, the wrong brake master, muffler and throttle.

Bringing it home - for some reason the front wheel shown in the ad got swapped for an unpainted one when I looked at it:

That's one sweet rear fender. Luv them evo huskies! Good luck with your project. Keep the pics coming...

Start of dissassembly and evalution. This bike was filthy.

At least one of the PO didn't love it. Entire wheel (hubs, spokes, valve stem, everything) was once sprayed copper and then flat black sometime later to cover it. Painted, cut and zip tied rear fender. Nice purple handlebars.

You got your work cut out for you. Time for some extra lovin (& alot of elbow grease). Hopefully the mechanicals are not as bad as the looks dept.

I looked at a ts 125 for sale at a swap recently and the 45 y/o mover onerer had gloss blacked the engine....thick gloss black!
what was a pretty original bike was turned into a 14year olds bucket of pooh

The RH side radiator was pretty badly bent but surprisingly didn't leak. I scored a good deal on Ebay and won a lot of 4 radiators with guards for $2.95 ... including a perfectly straight RH one!

The bike vibrated badly... I think this was a contributing factor.

that's a good start anyway....

I have a 1988 in similar condition, not for long though.

My original plan for the wheel was to strip the spray paint, but upon removal I found a broken shoe spring which wore a deep groove and ruined the hub. Found a replacement on ebay from a 430, so slightly wider but in good shape.

Just clean it up and run it.
Husky had the patent on the" ANTI SKID BRAKES".
Can't get them to lockup anyway.
Later George

The suspension at both ends was completely shot. The fork oil looked like it hadn't been changed in a long while and was full of nasty gray sludge. The upper sections of the tubes were pitted from rust. This was mostly just cosmetic because it wasn't in an area where the seals ride on but they were replaced with better used ones anyway. Forks were thoroughly cleaned and treated to new upper and lower bushings, seals and damping rings and then filled with 5 wt oil.

The spring for the rear shock was removed and the shock itself sent to Drew for a rebuilt. I sandblasted and painted the spring in the meantime while waiting for the shock to be returned. It turns out that Cub Cadet yellow is a pretty close match to the Ohlins yellow.

Nice progress. You aren't wasting any time. I'm watching with great interest.

I spent most of July and August rebuilding the bike and am actually done now and riding it... sorry if I misled you that I work this fast! I tried to explain in my first post.

These wr motors are awesome. The long stoke makes them way rideable and mellow on bottom (tractor like) but they will definitely open up if ya want too. I have a mostly original one owner 87 that even has the original front tire on it (my father purchased the bike new from Eric's motorcycle shop). Good luck and thanks for saving another one!

No, I husky did read that I just forgot. There has been multiple EVO husky projects on here lately & I check in with then regularly to see the progress...& maybe learn something. Thanks for posting the pics.

The pipe had a decent size dent in it. I sent it to Fusion One pipe repair and for $60, they did a terrific job getting it back into shape with a very quick turn around time.

Shock linkage disassembled and cleaned - the needle bearings were in good shape and reused, but only one good heim bearing, the rest had to be replaced along with the seals.