• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 25 hours on the WR300 and I think Ive figured her out

K5PL5

K5PL5

Husqvarna
Pro Class
So the hourmeter is showing 24.5 hours as of sunday. Going back into some hare scramble racing this year after a long break I wanted to get this thing fully sorted. I dont want to waste anyones time but if anyones interested, the following are the ins and outs of my 2012 WR and how Ive set it up/will set it up...
So the goodies i ended up putting on it:
First thing in the bin was the stock clutch cable. Replaced it with a motion pro terminator cable. Awesome improvement.
Enduro engineering skidplate-works awesome
Radiator guards from motosportz-sweet
Glenn Kearney WORKS pipe from Pro Circuit with pro circuit silencer-awesome. Stock pipe is garbage.
Enduro engineering shark fin/rear brake caliper hanger-beautiful and worth the money.
Motosportz front brake disx guard-sweet and works great.
IMS 3.5 tank-got from a forum member at a great price. Love it.
TE449/511 front fender and number plate. Makes the bike look "current" haha.
Pirelli tires. Replaced the stock ones right away. They blow.
Chinese sumyungwelder radiators. Stock ones are garbage. Started leaking from a seam. Werent even damaged! These chinese ones from ebay were cheap and are nice-for the money.

Issues....clutch cable was junk and pull was too heavy. New cable and extended my clutch actuator arm by 5 mm. That is the ticket!
Primary nut came off the crank and did some damage inside the motor. Nothing horrible but there are bikes from 2012/2103 coming off the line with that nut finger tight.

Radiator shrouds..what the hell kind of italian weed were they smokin when they designed those? You ride your WR in the woods, they will break.

Made a sidestand tether with an innertube section and zipties. Worth the time. Buy a KTM one if youre too cool for school.
Seat-comfy. I like.
Suspension...rear shock isnt bad but the forks need work. Im getting them valved and sprung by Mike Lafferty's ex mechanic next month. My view on them is "deflection city". The front end of my bike feels like its floating around all the time. Never feels planted and is vague. I will post up some thoughts after the rebuild.
My two cents...if someone feels i just robbed them of 5 minutes of their lives..i apologize. Thought new WR owners might like some intel.
 
I just had solid performance did mine. He did a great job with mine you will be happy with it . Evan does top notch work. I will have to try the terminater cable on mine. I'm not liking the pull either.
 
whats the p# on that cable? might give that a whack someday. clutch aint all that bad to me. well, i rode old Maico's so...pop-eye arm!

and i want my 5 mins back.
 
pvduke said:
whats the p# on that cable? might give that a whack someday. clutch aint all that bad to me. well, i rode old Maico's so...pop-eye arm!

and i want my 5 mins back.
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A Braico guy huh?....
Spent my share of money keepin up on a couple or so. Still got one out in the shed.
Funny, my buds used to call me Popeye-
 
I have a 99 360 but they share clutch parts
that cable is the best single investment on these
 
I cant remember the part number but Im pretty sure Toytech has them in stock but you can also email motion pro. I'll see if I can track down the old email...
 
I ordered a motion pro clutch cable and they said 2 to 4 weeks. Anybody have one they want to sell?
 
I find it sort of funny that last year when I went to order a Terminator clutch cable from Motion Pro, the part number for it did not exist on their on line catalog. I had to call them up to order it. So many people must have requested it, that it became pretty much a standardized part number.:rolleyes:
 
K5PL5 said:
So the hourmeter is showing 24.5 hours as of sunday. Going back into some hare scramble racing this year after a long break I wanted to get this thing fully sorted. I dont want to waste anyones time but if anyones interested, the following are the ins and outs of my 2012 WR and how Ive set it up/will set it up...
So the goodies i ended up putting on it:
First thing in the bin was the stock clutch cable. Replaced it with a motion pro terminator cable. Awesome improvement.
Enduro engineering skidplate-works awesome
Radiator guards from motosportz-sweet
Glenn Kearney WORKS pipe from Pro Circuit with pro circuit silencer-awesome. Stock pipe is garbage.
Enduro engineering shark fin/rear brake caliper hanger-beautiful and worth the money.
Motosportz front brake disx guard-sweet and works great.
IMS 3.5 tank-got from a forum member at a great price. Love it.
TE449/511 front fender and number plate. Makes the bike look "current" haha.
Pirelli tires. Replaced the stock ones right away. They blow.
Chinese sumyungwelder radiators. Stock ones are garbage. Started leaking from a seam. Werent even damaged! These chinese ones from ebay were cheap and are nice-for the money.

Issues....clutch cable was junk and pull was too heavy. New cable and extended my clutch actuator arm by 5 mm. That is the ticket!
Primary nut came off the crank and did some damage inside the motor. Nothing horrible but there are bikes from 2012/2103 coming off the line with that nut finger tight.

Radiator shrouds..what the hell kind of italian weed were they smokin when they designed those? You ride your WR in the woods, they will break.

Made a sidestand tether with an innertube section and zipties. Worth the time. Buy a KTM one if youre too cool for school.
Seat-comfy. I like.
Suspension...rear shock isnt bad but the forks need work. Im getting them valved and sprung by Mike Lafferty's ex mechanic next month. My view on them is "deflection city". The front end of my bike feels like its floating around all the time. Never feels planted and is vague. I will post up some thoughts after the rebuild.
My two cents...if someone feels i just robbed them of 5 minutes of their lives..i apologize. Thought new WR owners might like some intel.
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what i do agree with you is the front forks,they are deflection city especially in the PA rocks !!! had mine done by factory connection and still not happy ,so i scored a pair of new takeoffs Closed Cartrigde forks from a new449 and had them done by Drew from WER and really made the bike !!!A rekluse will fix that clutch cable issue and other than that the bike works great
 
K5PL5 said:
So the hourmeter is showing 24.5 hours as of sunday. Going back into some hare scramble racing this year after a long break I wanted to get this thing fully sorted. I dont want to waste anyones time but if anyones interested, the following are the ins and outs of my 2012 WR and how Ive set it up/will set it up...
So the goodies i ended up putting on it:
First thing in the bin was the stock clutch cable. Replaced it with a motion pro terminator cable. Awesome improvement.
Enduro engineering skidplate-works awesome
Radiator guards from motosportz-sweet
Glenn Kearney WORKS pipe from Pro Circuit with pro circuit silencer-awesome. Stock pipe is garbage.
Enduro engineering shark fin/rear brake caliper hanger-beautiful and worth the money.
Motosportz front brake disx guard-sweet and works great.
IMS 3.5 tank-got from a forum member at a great price. Love it.
TE449/511 front fender and number plate. Makes the bike look "current" haha.
Pirelli tires. Replaced the stock ones right away. They blow.
Chinese sumyungwelder radiators. Stock ones are garbage. Started leaking from a seam. Werent even damaged! These chinese ones from ebay were cheap and are nice-for the money.

Issues....clutch cable was junk and pull was too heavy. New cable and extended my clutch actuator arm by 5 mm. That is the ticket!
Primary nut came off the crank and did some damage inside the motor. Nothing horrible but there are bikes from 2012/2103 coming off the line with that nut finger tight.

Radiator shrouds..what the hell kind of italian weed were they smokin when they designed those? You ride your WR in the woods, they will break.

Made a sidestand tether with an innertube section and zipties. Worth the time. Buy a KTM one if youre too cool for school.
Seat-comfy. I like.
Suspension...rear shock isnt bad but the forks need work. Im getting them valved and sprung by Mike Lafferty's ex mechanic next month. My view on them is "deflection city". The front end of my bike feels like its floating around all the time. Never feels planted and is vague. I will post up some thoughts after the rebuild.
My two cents...if someone feels i just robbed them of 5 minutes of their lives..i apologize. Thought new WR owners might like some intel.
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If you ever have rear brake pedals issues this is what I did.
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/wr-250-300-rear-brake-lever-fix.30771/
 
The housing is longitudinally wound. The housing liner runs lengthwise rather than a coiled housing. Theyve been doing this with road bicycles and bmx for a while now. They just call them "linear" cables in the bicycle world.
 
Dirtdame said:
I find it sort of funny that last year when I went to order a Terminator clutch cable from Motion Pro, the part number for it did not exist on their on line catalog. I had to call them up to order it. So many people must have requested it, that it became pretty much a standardized part number.:rolleyes:
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Um yeah, I think you started a craze in the Husky world.:notworthy: It's a must have aftermarket item. My clutch works great now and I've never even touched the adjustment at the basket. I ended getting a second cable, custom length, for my bike because the stock length was too long for my ASV lever.
 
when i bought my old bike someone had taken out 1 clutch spring and the pull was amazing. never slipped 1 bit, i was happy.

the forks need some work but can be made to work.
 
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