• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

All 2st Bad Design

slo rider

slo rider

Husqvarna
AA Class
I would like to meet whoever it was at Husky that decided putting the right radiator hose connector right behind the pipe would be a good idea. I owe them a kick in the junk. A minor spill today pushed my pipe into said hose and allowed all the coolant to leak out.

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The cylinder is scored so it looks like time for a 144 kit, but I also want to do something to the radiator to prevent another incident like this from happening. I vaguely remember someone using a LH CR radiator and splicing the radiator hose to work. Any other ideas?
 
Funny, just got back from a great ride. 2011 CR125, 2011 CR125 with 144 and FMF pipe / muf, My 2009 WR144... FUN... But we spopke about the crapy hose placement as well. Needs fixed. Seems any good rad shop could relocate this. I like it. BTW i am running a KX125 pipe and not only do I like the power (rode high mountains today) it fits far better than stock. No interferance with the resi, EZ to get to oil fill, misses that hose better.

I forgot how freaking fun these bikes are. It did take a while to sort out for me as i have been riding the 511 exclusively for almost 1800 miles.

To steal one from PV... meeeeep.

K
 
a good fabricator could fab up a small stop or guard on the header tank. and moving the hose bib would work, as long as the flow pattern still works. i have seen larger header tanks installed on a number of bikes, perhaps that is a route to take.
 
Take a look at ebay, there is a 2001 CR125 being parted right now, the lower hose is for tanks with the spiggots on the inside like your swap setup is. Looks like you could put the 2001 hose on without any funky fittings. I almost bought it incase i swap my tanks but i figured you needed it more than me!
 
I had noticed this and went to Napa and had taken that plastic brake wrap stuff and wrapped my hoses all up to at least lesson the contact.
 
All you have to do, is heat the pipe up (off the bike) where the header pipe comes out of cylinder, down to first bend. Stick a piece of pipe down it's throat (while its cherry red) and bend it out some (Not very much). Gets like that when you crash on the right side and bends the pipe in towards radiator. Keep doing it a little at a time, cause you don't need to bend it very much. I heat/pull mine out about 3/4 of in inch away from hose. Had all pipes do it including the Dyno port, which is pretty beefy.
 
I took an old piece of intertube and cut out about a 3" x 6" section. I wrapped the hose 2 complete loops and then added 2 zip ties. Cheap and easy protection.
 
montgob1 said:
Take a look at ebay, there is a 2001 CR125 being parted right now, the lower hose is for tanks with the spiggots on the inside like your swap setup is. Looks like you could put the 2001 hose on without any funky fittings. I almost bought it incase i swap my tanks but i figured you needed it more than me!
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Thanks for the info. I'll see how well it matches the modified radiators.

I ended up sending the radiators to Myler's and had them swap the bottom tanks for me. It cost me $100 and I shouldn't have to worry about my hoses being in harm's way anymore. I'll post up pictures of the new radiators later.
 
Nice job slo rider. I just found a set of WR125 rads from a '02 on fleabay for $40 last winter and got the same result. It always pays to watch the fleabay even if it is agravating.
 
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