• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Brown coolant from my '11 WR 300

Brian Scott

Brian Scott

Husqvarna
AA Class
I just drained my coolant for the first time since buying this bike new in December 2011 and nearly every drop was brown. The viscosity and scent was the same as new coolant. Rust? Obviously. Where? I did not detect any oil in my collection pan; i.e. no sheen or "milkyness". First I can't get it out of 1st gear (see other thread I started on Sunday on that issue), now this.:mad: I only have about 24 hrs on it so far.

So how do you fellas diagnosis this further and remedy it? Thanks.
 
There shouldn't be anything to rust in the system. I have seen the discolored coolant before. I would just replace it and check it again later.
 
I had the same thing with my '10 WR300 after running demineralised water only(no coolant) for a road race.
When I pulled the water pump cover off to have a look, the shaft that drives the impeller had surface corrosion evident and some staining of the impeller had resulted.
I just put some good quality coolant in with the water and kept riding.
I've had no further evidence of brown in the cooling system since then, so I'd suggest giving yours a flush and see how you go.
 
I run engine ice. I just had to drain it because of a leaky radiator and it still looked brand new after at least 50 hrs. Maybe give it a try.......
 
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