• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 1999 WR250 Pics

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99WR250

Husqvarna
A Class
Figured I'd just post up some pics for anyone who wants to look! I was able to pick this up for $1000. I think I got a good price....

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I've been working on the bike lately.
So far I've:

Disassembled tank, shrouds, fenders/side panels
Disassembled exhaust and painted
Added hand guards
Disassembled the rear subframe/air box and degreased, cleaned, changed and oiled air filer...and reassembled
Disassembled and cleaned petcock valve and filter on gas tank
greased the zerks
Regreased ALL bolts before reassembly of all parts
Cleaned engine
Touched up some frame paint


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To do:


Change gear oil
Check radiator fluid
Check air pressure in tires


Also noticed my muffler / silencer is missing a few screws (pics below). Will I be doing any damage running without them? I did notice a lot of grime/grease/grit on the side plastic where the I'm missing the exhaust screws. Almost like something is coming out of the holes.

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My brother is in the process of fixing up a 1980 Yamaha IT 250!!! We are both trying to learn as much as possible and are finding that working on the bikes is half the fun!

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is there anything else i should know about this "new to me" 99 WR250?


and for kicks: a pic of my 2003 Yamaha TW200:

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I think the number plate is the same to at least 2002 for CRs. Those holes in the muffler are 5mm bolts iirc, I just repacked mine and replaced the bolts with 3/16" rivets. No chance of vibrating out. I think I had to drill the holes slightly. The stuff in the hole is fiberglass packing. Just stuff it back in with a pick.

Nice bike, the tire pressure will change, (drop) day to day. You need to check it every time you ride, or should at least. I run mine at 14 psi to prevent flats.

Well bought! Looks very low hour.
 
Looks good ESP for a grand ... and does this model have the true Wide Ratio transmission gears?

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Working on a bike is OK ...What I find the most fun is, making a change to the suspension or engine and then going out to test it for a couple days in many different scenarios ...
 
The end cap on the exhaust has a inner big o-ring which seals everything up, looks like the cap is not inserted enough so the bolt holes are not showing. The cap is difficult to re-fir so dont force it.
 
buy an aftermarket silencer or sparky they are lighter and sound waaay better mellower if you can dig that word :banana:
 
Any suggestion for an aftermarket silencer? Can I replace just the silencer....or should I do the whole exhaust chamber too?
 
What did you use to clean the engine. I am currently going through my 2000 WR250 and getting off a decade of grime is proving very difficult.

Eric
 
You only painted half the dog!
Bike looks nice. I'm looking at my beat up 2002 cr250 and thinking it needs a good freshen up next winter!
 
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