• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Broken friction plates on my '11 wr 300

Brian Scott

Brian Scott

Husqvarna
AA Class
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I discovered 3 broken friction plates recently while inspecting my clutch. The friction plates are original oem mated to a Rekluse Z-start pro installed last spring with the low rpm engagement/hard engagement rate setup using Pro Honda 80 wt oil. Oil level was correct. It's been a great set up so far. 2200 miles on the bike and oem plates with about 500 miles on the Rekluse. Most recent ride before the discovery was a 2.5 hr harescramble in very wet and muddy conditions with a few long technical hill climbs and some very fast sections on and off the mx track and in the woods. Also lots of 3rd and 4th gear lugging through the muddy and technical sections to minimize wheelspin. I suspect they shattered during the race. I heard a pop and the tranny went into neutral but I just shifted into 2nd and kept going with no further issues. I even rode it down my street after the post race washing and didn't notice any clutch issues. Is this normal with broken friction plates? The oem clutch basket is moderately notched and was a little less so when I installed the Rekluse, but I never experienced any abnormal shifting or clutch behavior.

So what do you suppose caused this? I'm planning on filing down the basket notches. What other measures are needed to prevent this?

Thanks!
 
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