• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 wr300,keep sucking water!

Glenn haynes

Glenn haynes

Husqvarna
AA Class
Is there a mod to fix the big gaping hole in the bottem of the airbox? it shoots water directly into the air filter on little water crossings,causing me huge running problems.
 
In wet conditions I run a big chunk of skid plate foam in the bottom of the air box. Keeps the splash under control, but allows drainage. If it's really wet I'll run a water repellent filter cover.
 
I have tried putting skid plate foam,didn't help much. So today I completely blocked off the factory drain. I then cut a 3/8 by 1 1/4in hole on the exact opposite side of the box,I then cut a piece of thinner rubber and riveted it over the hole on the outside. So now water can get out,but not splash in. Some kind of monkey designed the factory one.What were they thinking?? the rear wheel sprays directly at the opening and its a straight shot in. So hopefully My Little mod here works better.
 
Glenn haynes said:
I have tried putting skid plate foam,didn't help much. So today I completely blocked off the factory drain. I then cut a 3/8 by 1 1/4in hole on the exact opposite side of the box,I then cut a piece of thinner rubber and riveted it over the hole on the outside. So now water can get out,but not splash in. Some kind of monkey designed the factory one.What were they thinking?? the rear wheel sprays directly at the opening and its a straight shot in. So hopefully My Little mod here works better.
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can you take a pic?
 
well,I dpn't think its water at all now. Its the stator or coil,have barely any spark,which would explain the misfire and back firing. This bike is really starting to piss me off.Now I might miss my favorite race this weekend! I shouldn't have these issue's with a bike that is only 10mo old.
 
Glenn haynes said:
well,I dpn't think its water at all now. Its the stator or coil,have barely any spark,which would explain the misfire and back firing. This bike is really starting to piss me off.Now I might miss my favorite race this weekend! I shouldn't have these issue's with a bike that is only 10mo old.
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Take off the kill button and see if that helps.

Sometimes it shorts a bit.

Check the coil grounds too.
 
Glenn haynes said:
did that allready
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vent you carb vent tubes to the air box, i had the same problem on long deep water crossings, the bike would stall and when you try to start it with the vent hoses in water it will suck it up and make it worse, i havnt had that problem since i did that
 
Another waterproofing thing to check that could mess with the spark. Check the stator cover for a recess on the sealing edge, if there is a cutout for draining it will obviously drown the stator when going through water crossings. Epoxy or JB Weld the recess away and just make sure to pop the lid after a ride to let the condensation out. My old CR 250 would die after a water crossing and I'd have to kick it with the cover off a jillion times to dry it out.
 
fixed it! it was the coil. purrs like a kitten and is much easier to start. Thanks to schulz cycle for hooking me up. Not bashing But if this were any other brand bike I would be sitting on the sidelines this weekend.
 
Hmmm....wonder if that's what's bothering mine? It's always hard to start and kicks back when it's cold. I checked the spark on it last weekend, and it had a little red spark, no matter how hard I kicked it.:confused:
 
yep,mine was kicking back also,they said they have seen a few of the coils going bad,even new from the factory.mine was coming and going,never consistant enough to figure out.It finally was consistant enough to find a weak spark.
 
I ordered a new coil/ignitor unit for my bike this morning. It is on backorder status, so who knows when I'll get it.:excuseme:
 
Glenn haynes said:
do you still run the mukuni?
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I had a stock Mikuni on there, but have 36 Lectron on there right now. Not too happy with the Lectron, but would like to test it further with a known good ignition. I also just set up the Mikuni with a JD kit. I have not run that yet either.
 
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