• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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84 WR250 came home today

Not in the twisties. Even the Dirt Bike magazine test disparaged the lack of low end when in the tight woods where the previous WRs held mastery. If I ride the 84 I have as a 250, it will get an 82 WR cylinder. With the CR tunnel ports added to enhance the top end somewhat.
 
My 84 250wr is snappy when compared two my two 83 250wrs. I think the 84 came with the cr ported cylinder as I was told here husky was using up extra parts on the ac when switching to water cooled. My 84 is a totally different bike. I/ we need to pull the reed box out and see if they have the extra vertical ports on the bottom of the reed opening in the cylinder.
 
If correct 84wr cylinder it will have the old exhaust port that is set lower height by 1.5 mm as compared to CRs

I just had one made to replace old cracked sleeve. Has the extra exhaust eyelet ports on each side and the lower
Boysen behind sleeve transfers on the bottom of the sleeve.

But is based on the Husky tech bulletin and is the 84 wr model


Also almost done the 82 Wr Cylinder project bike. Taken forever.
 
Not quite sure what the heck you guys are talking about, but i'm sure I'll know when I get there.
 
So, the story is the bike came from a former NETRA rider that passed away here in Rhode Island. It sat in a garage for 15 years, home to many generations of mice. The bike was bartered for some work to another local guy who really didn't know what he had. It sat in his garage for a year or so.
They were about to take it to the dump when my buddy picked it up and it spend several months in his garage.
Now, it's in my garage...
It's come home! and will live again!
 
Check the centercases for corrosion. Might as well, after sitting for 15 years, count on replacing crank seals at least.
 
new England guys....nice vintage xc and MX race 26 and 27 AUG in Minerva NY (just north of lake George) Good times and nice course and lots of Huskys....cmon out if you can
 
jimspac said:
Check the centercases for corrosion. Might as well, after sitting for 15 years, count on replacing crank seals at least.
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What he said.
Raced (hopefully maintained on a race schedule, maybe not)
Sat 15 years
Mice
These things all suggest that bearings, seals and gaskets would be good to go [away].
After getting my current project apart, I'm 100% convert to this line of thinking.
Once the engine is out, top end off and split isn't all that time-consuming. Of course back together might take some time. You do have to deal with what you find...
 
Eric The Leg said:
What he said.
Raced (hopefully maintained on a race schedule, maybe not)
Sat 15 years
Mice
These things all suggest that bearings, seals and gaskets would be good to go [away].
After getting my current project apart, I'm 100% convert to this line of thinking.
Once the engine is out, top end off and split isn't all that time-consuming. Of course back together might take some time. You do have to deal with what you find...
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Mice destroyed my motor. :banghead:

So much piss it ALMOST ate thru the cases. Completely wasted the carburetor - the slide and body became one solid smelly mess! :cry:

Split it and go thru everything - you'll be glad you did! :thumbsup:
 

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I only replace crank bearings when they show radial play. If I can feel any play by hand and yes I can feel .0005" shake without using an indicator I will begrudgingly replace the original bearing. The new bearings are 1/2 the quality of the originals. We know here that Husqvarna used much better than needed in terms of crank bearings and it shows when I open a 35 year old engine and find no need to replace crank bearings.
 
this was my Yamaha IT carb, completely packed with who knows what kind of mouse goo. The smell is etched in my brain.
 

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