• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Buying a 95 WR 360, what should i look for?

L

LemoneyF

Husqvarna
A Class
Hey all,

I'm not expecting much out of this bike as the guy only wants $1000. I haven't seen it yet but planning to make the trip in a few days.

I'm interested to hear about common wear areas and things to look for when I get there. As far as I know, pistons are still available and rods can be sourced from KTM parts books. I'm confident with rebuilding the engine if it needs it.

My concern is with the plastics and the rest of the chassis. Can anyone give me anything else to look for?

Many thanks
Rob
 
good luck on the plastic
they are very tough bikes and wide power bottom to a hard middle
put on a Lectron and it helps the top a little, that being said my 93 with a Mic is an animal, i think the 95 is the last of the original porting design
typical stuff is wear items not maintained by others, but nothing unusual
 
As stated, plastics are hard to get but you can buy acerbis or ufo 02 plastics and a subframe seat and tank will bring that baby up to spec no issues.

Good solid bikes the engines are noisy if your used to small bore two smokers so dont let that put you off, mine sounds like main bearings have gone but theyre year old skf's no way theyre gone.
Also swear i can hear the piston moving.

95 is the more torquey porting on the cylinder so should be a woodlands beast.
All parts are sourcable at a price.

Have fun!
 
Hey lads

As I expected the plastics are rough. The side panels and headlight might be salvageable but the rear fender is properly knackered.

The good news is the engine seems ok, even in bits. One of the tabs in the inner clutch basket broke off and the owner thought it was a big end death rattle, so pulled the entire motor down and boxed it. Judging by the cobwebs it's been idle for a while. There's a few scuff marks on the barrel but nothing major. Mains and big end have no radial play and turn freely.

He mentioned that the barrel is an earlier one and is ported for top end (it has a skinny pipe also), but I don't believe it as this barrel has an exhaust bridge.

I'm really hoping that I can restore it to an original condition if I find a rear fender. I really like the look of the old ones. I'll be shelving it for now until I finish the same job on my husaberg, but I'm excited to see what I can come up with here.
 
Awesome all sounds good, i like the old school plastics but theyre really hard to get and are brittle now if its original.
Keep a good old set and buy a newer set for punting about on.

Nice news on the earlyer cylinder you can tell by looking at the exhaust ports earlyer ones overlap the transfer ports tle later ones are nowhere near the transfers.
 
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