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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1981 250WR

My friend has one, he is the second owner. Some things to note, it has gold forks, but it is an early '81 which came with 35mm forks.

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It's the husqvarna evolution from around 1976 to 1988. I think during this time they advanced. The late 70's older engines did run good. The design of the kicker was the problem. The 80's new designed engine case fixed the kicker problem and moved the cylinder studs out for the maximum intake port size.
 
Just speaking of evolution, I have one engine that had a problem with the stator plate loosening up and the holes are quite damaged. I bought another similar engine (lower end)off ebay, years ago, and it has the same sprocket spline as used up to 1988, not sure what happened after 88. Was that larger spline on only the cr?

What was wrong with the kick starter mechanism? It wasn't primary kick but the rubber dampening got lost in the transition.
 
The '81 cr 250 older case used the bigger 83 out put shaft spline. I guess it was an upgrade in that era. This bike still had the square ignition cover. I think the engine number was 2079 or 2081 it's been a longtime.

Your really jogging my old husqvarna memory now. My knowledge is from the 77 to 86 era. I had a '72 wr250 all assembled but I never ran it. A guy in Arizona purchased it. The cast iron sleeves back in '72 was a lot harder material back then. Maybe the quality of the cast iron had more nickel in it. I don't know every fact but I had them all running.
That '81 250cr was a flyer for sure. It had the '82/83 style seat. I prefer the taller narrower seat from 77/78/79 bikes. I think they had more comfort.
Funny I could get on any year husqvarna and feel the same on it enough to push it. No adjustments was needed on my part.
 
Yes, The parts manual shows it to be 17"..... Running a IRC VE-33 on the rear of a 82XC 250 I have and it does fine enough in our part of the world.

Best of fortune in the quest
 
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