• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Clutch rattle

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Husqvarna
AA Class
Got just over 70hrs on my wr300 and the clutch racket is starting to rear its head. You know the noise.... the one that quiets down when you pull in the clutch lever and gets loud when the lever is released at idle. All my bikes do it, so I'm not overly concerned but I want to know what it is.

I pulled the basket off yesterday and everything looks great. The pushrod has some uneven wear on the shaft closest to the blunt end, but its nothing too worrisome. Is the noise caused by the shaft rattling around in its bore? And it gets progressively worse as the bouncing shaft further wears away at the bore?

My yamaha has closer to 200hrs and it rattles like no other. Still works perfect though.

What the heck is rattling!?!?
 
One of my 125's was rattling when the clutch was engaged, it turned
out to be a fractured bearing cage on the main shaft.
 
My 07 WR does the same but I don't worry about it.
I believe it's just the basket ratting on the plates.
 
I have around 70 hours on mine too, and it rattles. Works perfect though. I think all bikes rattle more or less, and as long as the function is as it should be i don´t care:)! It could be my teeth that rattles too at my age:D!

Johnny
 
Hmm glad this is a common occurrence. I just bought a te450 and its my first dirt bike since I was a teen.
I was getting worried about the noise on my newly rebuilt engine. Glad its not just mine!
 
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