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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

125-200cc Chinesium replacement radiators--anyone tried them?

dfeckel

dfeckel

Husqvarna
AA Class
It's been a long time since I have been active here--life, am I right??

Anyway, I managed to snag my old 2008 CR 125 off CL. I originally bought it new in '09 when they were on fire-sale closeout pricing ($3899 if memory serves!). Unfortunately, its subsequent owners apparently loved throwing it to the ground and into trees. The radiators resemble taco shells.

Pricing out repair ($140 plus shipping) versus replacement ($108 shipped), I'm considering trying the Chinesium replacement rads.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ALUMINUM-R...rentrq:021961631630a688acf2c7b7fff7c869|iid:1

Anyone have experience with these? Will my OFG rad braces fit them?

Thanks!
 
Not the same, but I put something similar on my YZ250 about 2 years ago and have been happy with them. Mine are "oversized" and the radiator guards just barely fit.
 
I used a set of chinky rads on my 125/165 and battered them to death over the years! Bent the left one really badly early on and it pulled back straight ish with a bit of work and held up for years with not a leak in sight!
Stock rads where junk in comparison to the beating I gave the cheap chinky items and I trashed a few stockers badly till the swap over (must stop crashing) I have not one bad word to say about them, fitment was great , rad guards fitted as per the stock items, what more could you ask for at that price.
Bet if you looked for 250 items (same rads) you would find them even cheaper
 
I got a set of radiators for my 1986 KX250 from Winner Racing on eBay. I got them in and found them to be the best constructed radiators I had ever seen. After going to my local Kawasaki dealer to get hoses. I found them to be generic hoses with a compound curved hosed replaced with a straight hose and the true originals to be NLA. When giving feedback to the seller of the radiators, I asked him to have hoses made so he could sell a complete set. Within 2 weeks it as done.

It does not get any better than that in this day and age!
 
Welcome back Dr Dave.... I use the mail order rads on a few bikes, they seem to be WAY stronger then stock... maybe not as pretty depending on the welds
 
I'm very impressed with the Chinese ones compared to stock. Stock only had seam sealer where the eBay ones were beefier and welded. And cheaper.
 
I've had a set on my bike for over a year, and I would buy them again. No probs.
 
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