• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 2012 Squeaky rear wheel bearings/breaks

Guy Lozito

Guy Lozito

Husqvarna
C Class
So I purchased a brand new WR250 from a reputable dealer in Western PA. Their claim to fame is that they do a 5 hour race prep on each bike prior to the sale.

Well I got the bike home, and basically left it in my garage while I followed the extensive break in period instructions. Somehow, the top engine mount bolt sheared off, and I didn't notice for day or so when I saw it on the ground. This was somewhat disconcerting since I never even torqued the motor other than revving to break it in.

Following that, I replaced the bolt with temporary one while waiting for the dealer to send the replacement. During that time, I took it out once off road (<1/2 hour max) and now I am hearing a terrible squeaking noise coming either from the floating rotor or the rear bearings.

Anyone have any ideas? I will eventually have to take it back to the dealer, but it's an hour trip and not easy to fit into my schedule.

Everything else seems fine, still a little hard to kick start as it's not broken in yet, I imagine it will get easier.

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
It's hard to "hear" things over the internet but I would assume it's just the Husky rotor rattle. Can you hear it when the bike is running but sitting still or only when moving?
 
The sound only happens when moving, and it hasn't seen anything but clean cut yard grass. I found a post on hear about a good place to get spec bolts and they should be here today. I'll see if the noise goes away after I put some time on it. Thanks for than help, can't wait to get this thing out.
 
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