• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 2002 Wr360 - Standard Piston Wear?

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Husqvarna
AA Class
Don't worry, I measured the hole, it's well within spec... :banana:


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She's cooked! Brand new piston too... 1st ride... I had a hairline crack in the head which was welded, she got hot and the weld let go, and slowly dripped coolant into the barrel while I was trying to get off the mountain and back to where I was staying. She gave up at the gate.

Lesson 1. I guess I should have bought a replacement head...
 
This may sound dumb but could your head / gasket if fitted have been fitted back to front/ upside down ???? as the marks on the jug dont line up where the water passages are ****************************************
 
Man that is tough but there is a post of a member parting a 360....or could an excuse for a decomp head?:-)
 
Sadly, there's no decomp heads available for purchase unless you get a unit that's used or already been sold.
 
Yeah... Those marks look like a backwards head alright! I can assure you it wasn't though, the hole in the piston formed right under the crack in the head, which was where the decompressor had been welded in many moons ago. This is also where I had the head repaired when I bought the bike a few months ago.

I think I'd prefer the unmodified head after all the dramas I've had with this. My original 360 back in the day was a hefty thing to kick, but it seems that when this particular decomp was originally installed that it's weakened the head considerably.
 
Cheers for the heads up lads. Shes going to be put in the garage for a while, I've got a ride coming up in April and have decided to lash out on a new banger, but that's another story.

So I popped the head off again, and as per Johnnys comments above, it looks like there's something amiss between the barrel and head... Or did they come from the factory this mismatched? The holes are waaay out of whack...

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