• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

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    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.

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125-200cc '06 WR125 Setup

woodsrider

woodsrider

Husqvarna
AA Class
Thought I would start a thread about how my new to me '06 WR125 is getting setup. Nothing ground breaking here, but wanted to share what's going on anyway. First order of business was determining that what I thought was an '05 WR125 turned out to be an '06 WR125.

Bonus!

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Stopped by my local Husky dealer, Tasky's in Everett, and picked up:
  • 2 Moose airfilters. I saw Kelly mentioned he likes the Moose brand ones with the neoprene lip. They had two in stock hanging on the wall. I snagged them. Bonus!
  • 2 spark plugs.
  • Gear oil.
  • Premix oil - Duomonde Tech full syn, my favorite.
I was hoping they might have a skid plate in stock, but they did not. I had checked with Kelly previously, he didn't have one. Called Bill's today, nope. Called Steahly Offroad, their website shows they carry them. Nope, they do not have it in stock, he said they get them from Ricochet.

Called Ricochet, they had it in stock, said regular ground shipping to my area is usually 2 days. Placed the order online today. Just got an order status email, UPS picked it up, its on its way.

Yeah!

Next order of business will be:
  • Routine maintenance (oil change, air filter, coolant, bleed brakes, spark plug, check chain tension, check suspension settings).
  • Check jetting (bike seemed to run great going around the block).
  • Check powervalve setting.
  • Check nuts and bolts front to back.
  • Check sprocket sizes.
  • Install bark busters.
  • Install skid plate.
  • Take it for a shake down ride!
  • Sell my KTM 125 SX!
Current setup is:
  • CR plastics
  • Jetting: unknown
  • FMF Fatty pipe
  • FMF Turbine Core II muffler w/spark arrestor
  • HD tubes, brand unknown
  • Sprockets/gearing: unknown, probably stock
Future mods/maintenance:
  • Suspension: springs front and back for 205 lb rider. Fork mod Kelly told me about.
  • Check bearings including shock linkage
  • Tall seat?
  • Bar risers?
  • Low pegs?
  • IMS gas tank?
  • APT Smartcarb or Lectron?
  • Radiator guards
  • White or red headlight/number plate
  • Install Stabilizer
  • Install Trail Tech Endurance speedo
  • Graphics?
  • WB 165 kit!
Now I just have to find the time to get to it. And also find time to prep my KTM for sale and list it.

Anyway, I'm very excited to set this bike up and get it out for its first trail ride, maybe by this weekend. -Ed
 
Top of your list should be to spring it and sort the fork for you. This will be by far your biggest performance, comfort and fatigue mod. The forks are kinda sucky but can be awesome. The springs are WAY soft for you. Going to be hard to judge the bike until you address this.
 
Ha ha...yes, I was just dropping my kid off and was thinking "Suspension! Need to add springs front and back and forks mod to my list."

I'll edit my list above. Thanks.
 
nice, i just got finished setting a "13 165 up.

lectron 36 (stock carb with 165kit it's eats a lot of fuel)
ims tank
susp resprung
flexx bars
fastway evo3 pegs
cycra busters
EE rad guards
EE sharkfin rear disk guard
scotts submount damper
new tires/hd tubes
repacked/greased wheel, head, and swingarm bearings (a bit dry and it had very little time on when i bought it.)

enjoy!
 
Nice!

And you reminded me of a couple of other things to add to the list. At some point I need to check all the bearings (including rr shock linkage).

Larger gas tank may be necessary, we'll have to see on that one.

I'm also very interested in the APT Smartcarb. I know the Lectron has been getting rave reviews but I'm holding out to see how the Smartcarb does once its in production and the real world feedback comes in.
 
TROFFER88 said:
I have a 06 wr125 also get the Scorpion skid plate , best one out there for that frame.
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Thanks, but I already have the Ricochet skid plate on order, should be here tomorrow. I've had them on a couple of other bikes and was very happy with them.

And I'd actually like a plastic one like the Hyde skid plates, but it looks like they don't offer one for the 125. Plus their shipping/customer service left a lot to be desired the one time I did buy from them. I also had a KTM OEM plastic one my '04 250 EXC. Wish I knew a little bit about plastic forming because I really like the plastic skid plates.
 
I've run the Moose airfilters and had problems with the rubber seal essentially melting. So I'm going back to the Twinair.

I have a Moose brand skidplate I ordered from Tasky's that doesn't fit my '09. Free if you want it.
 
slo rider said:
I've run the Moose airfilters and had problems with the rubber seal essentially melting. So I'm going back to the Twinair..
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wonder if it did not like the air filter oil or somthing. Should be be heat related right? I have run mine for many years and it is holding up well using JP1 oil.
 
slo rider said:
I've run the Moose airfilters and had problems with the rubber seal essentially melting. So I'm going back to the Twinair.

I have a Moose brand skidplate I ordered from Tasky's that doesn't fit my '09. Free if you want it.
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Slo, sent you a PM, interested in the skid plate. Where are you located? Thanks.
 
Motosportz said:
wonder if it did not like the air filter oil or somthing. Should be be heat related right? I have run mine for many years and it is holding up well using JP1 oil.
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Interesting. Just oiled my new ones up with the PJ1 aeresol, so good to know you haven't had any issues with that brand. I'll keep an eye on it though, which I usually do anyway.
 
slo rider said:
I use No Toil filter oil.
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Yep Notoil is the problem. It ruined two of my filters, they split at the seam, Notoil knows this and will replace if you bitch to them about it. I run Notoil as well but only use their filters because of this. There are several threads on this site talking about notoil ruining filters. I love the stuff so I bought their filters and no more problems. How long have you been running the twin and notoil because i could swear someone had a seem splitting issues with that filter as well. Basically the oil breaks down the glue at the seams.
 
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/no-toil-air-filter-cleaner-oil.24998/page-2#post-283094

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/no-toil-air-filter-cleaner-oil.24998/#post-226310

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/no-toil-air-filter-cleaner-oil.24998/page-2#post-255610

Looks like the newer blue bottle cleaner is an issue with some filter glue...

"I have been using the green stuff with no issues up to today, and I'm not sure the oil is the problem. I've cleaned these filters out at least 5 times with no issues using the no toil cleaner in a red "honda" bottle. Today, I switched to a bottle of the blue cleaner, and both filters instantly fall apart."

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"I had a DT-1 filter separate at the seams using No-Toil. They sent me a new one and said No-Toil was incompatible with their glue.
Just a heads up. Great filter & customer service."

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DRS said:
nice, i just got finished setting a "13 165 up.

lectron 36 (stock carb with 165kit it's eats a lot of fuel)
ims tank
susp resprung
flexx bars
fastway evo3 pegs
cycra busters
EE rad guards
EE sharkfin rear disk guard
scotts submount damper
new tires/hd tubes
repacked/greased wheel, head, and swingarm bearings (a bit dry and it had very little time on when i bought it.)

enjoy!
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hi what springs did you use(brand and weight) and what weight are you,mine is bottoming out everywhere
 
Yup, those are my pics above. No Toil will hook you up. I ruined 2 filters as shown above, they sent me 3 new ones. No issues since!
 
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