• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Cr165 missing on top

Chef

Chef

Husqvarna
AA Class
My 08 cr165 ran like a scalded cat all season. On my last ride the bike wouldn't come on to the pipe near as hard and was missing at the top of the revs. It ran fine on the bottom and mid and started just like it always had. I changed out the plug and had the same results. Running a lectron and the wb pipe. The plug wasn't fouled and looked nicely brown although perhaps a little on the lean side. I richened up the pj but it made no difference. The guy behind me said the bike smelled richer. I checked for air leaks around the carb boot with starting fluid and it seems all good. Open to suggestions on where to go with this.

Thanks in advance
K
 
Check your ground at the coil. Make sure it is tight, clean, and not cracked. Also when the power jet is too rich it will miss like that but I don't know why it would change.
 
NCSteve said:
Gotta check all the basics first: fuel flow/petcock screen; ^ ground, plug wire/cap; compression! filter; muffler. Be interested in what you find out. :cheers:
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...after Steve's excellent checklist, the next level would be things like the power valve, reeds, loose jet, flywheel, rag (or mouse) in the airbox, etc.
 
compression check for sure... lower compression will cause richer running and less pull when on the pipe.
 
I have found that bad reeds will usually make it hard to start and run strange at low rpm but the high the revs, the better it runs. Since we don't have penny's in Canada anymore my 2 cents are now free. Lol
 
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Thanks for the suggestions. Well, I finally found a bit of time to put in to this. A kitchen renovation and life seemed to have got in the way. I found a connector on the coil that wasn't tight, that isn't to say it was loose but the connector could move on the bolt. Reeds check out good. Unfortunately it seems winter has arrived here so I now have the bike in the basement to do winter maintenance and repairs. I'll keep you posted on what I find.

Thanks again
 
The difference between a professional mechanic and a backyard mechanic is troubleshooting. I called it on the first page :D

I posted it because I thought Chef might remember it, and he may have a similar problem. He's on that forum too.
 
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