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

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

250-500cc '14 WR300 Ring gap = seizure?

wrtimmy

wrtimmy

Husqvarna
AA Class
I heard the other week from a friend, who heard it from someone else who seemed to be "in the know", that the last batch of 300's that came into Australia had the ring gap set incorrectly, and has been causing the motors to seize.

Apparently, 4 of the last 6 that have come into my state have seized due to this, and the importer is unwilling to do anything to fix any issue until the motor goes (can understand I guess).

So naturally this has me slightly concerned and I'll be making sure I have the bike serviced shortly at the dealer for it's first service which is coming up to avoid any warranty issues should something go wrong.

Has anyone else around here heard of this issue with the last batch of WR300's? I've done a couple of long rides on the bike already (4hours, 60km's), and gotten it well up to temperature so surely if it was going to go, it would have gone already, wouldn't it?

Cheers,
Tim.
 
Pretty sure mine's a last batch 2014 model. Purchased 2Dec13 in USA and now have 54.2 hours logged. Gave it two very good opportunities to seize on me and haven't been successful yet. Therefore, it's possible that the ring end gap is just fine. I am using 32:1 oil mix with a JD jet kit so I think she's getting lubricated well. :)
 
Cheers for the comments - 54 hours is a pretty decent amount of hours already! I think I'd be around the 15 hour mark, with 4 of those in one hit. Most of our rides are around the hour to an hour and a half mark. I think if it was going to go, it would have gone on that 4 hour run.

I run mine at 50:1 with a Lectron.
 
"So naturally this has me slightly concerned and I'll be making sure I have the bike serviced shortly at the dealer for it's first service which is coming up to avoid any warranty issues should something go wrong."

"I run mine at 50:1 with a Lectron."

Surprised that warranty would still stand, with Lectron installed, as it's not OEM....
 
wrtimmy said:
Cheers for the comments - 54 hours is a pretty decent amount of hours already! I think I'd be around the 15 hour mark, with 4 of those in one hit. Most of our rides are around the hour to an hour and a half mark. I think if it was going to go, it would have gone on that 4 hour run.

I run mine at 50:1 with a Lectron.
Click to expand...

I'm down to one bike and ride twice a month usually four hour rides but had a couple of multiple overnight trips to Oregon this year already. :banana:
 
Warranties IMHO are useless sales garbage anyway. They are masters at denying anything. This is true for 90% of things you can warranty. Its a money maker for them.
 
Motosportz said:
Warranties IMHO are useless sales garbage anyway. They are masters at denying anything. This is true for 90% of things you can warranty. Its a money maker for them.
Click to expand...


100% agree with you there - but should something happen, I'd like to avoid giving them a reason if I can help it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top