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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st Cracked carb boot.

Eaglefreek

Eaglefreek

Husqvarna
Pro Class
A fellow rider pointed out what he thought was a crack in my carb boot last week when he was looking at my Lectron. I thought it was just a casting line and dismissed it. I took the carb off to adjust the rod and what do you know, there is a crack. Heck, there are 3 of them. One on each side and one at the bottom. They don't appear to be all the way through, yet. It's a 11 WR300 bought as a left over last year. I ride like I have a mangina and don't ride as much as I would like, shouldn't they last longer than this? Is there a better alternative than the Husky part?
 
Eaglefreek said:
A fellow rider pointed out what he thought was a crack in my carb boot last week when he was looking at my Lectron. I thought it was just a casting line and dismissed it. I took the carb off to adjust the rod and what do you know, there is a crack. Heck, there are 3 of them. One on each side and one at the bottom. They don't appear to be all the way through, yet. It's a 11 WR300 bought as a left over last year. I ride like I have a mangina and don't ride as much as I would like, shouldn't they last longer than this? Is there a better alternative than the Husky part?
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Shoe goo makes a good temporary fix while you're waiting to get a new one
 
I have a 2013 wr 250 and from day 1 it never looked good. My guess is they made a bunch of them years back and just keep on bolting them on new bikes. I will have to check my inside now. It looks horrible on the outside.
 
Well, it's disappointing to hear I'm not the only one with the issue. I'll coat it with something and keep an eye on it. I wish there was an alternative from another manufacturer. I saw a boot on Ebay for a Honda CR250 and in the description, the seller said he tried it on a Husky WR250, but it bend was a little different and the carb hit the cases. I sent him a message and he said he tried one from an ATC 250R also and it didn't work either.
 
My first Husky was a 1979 250 OR. That's it in my profile pic. I remember it had a crack in the carb boot that went all the way through. I discovered it after closing the throttle and pulling in the clutch after a hard acceleration, and instead of idling down, it sucked air in through the crack, and must have drawn fuel through the choke or something because it would idle up. Replaced the boot and never had another problem.
 
Eaglefreek said:
Well, it's disappointing to hear I'm not the only one with the issue. I'll coat it with something and keep an eye on it. I wish there was an alternative from another manufacturer. I saw a boot on Ebay for a Honda CR250 and in the description, the seller said he tried it on a Husky WR250, but it bend was a little different and the carb hit the cases. I sent him a message and he said he tried one from an ATC 250R also and it didn't work either.
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That would be me. The problem finding a new manifold is that the Husky unit goes up then levels off. The Honda ones I tried just sort of go straight out.
 
MOTORHEAD said:
That would be me. The problem finding a new manifold is that the Husky unit goes up then levels off. The Honda ones I tried just sort of go straight out.
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Small world. Thanks for that info. There must be an issue with the composition of the rubber used. I've seen 20 year old bikes without cracks in the boots.
 
Take the boot off and check it on the inside. Bend it and flex it like it will never see in real-world use. I've seen pleanty of surface cracks that are still airtight. My OEM 76 RD400 boots look like hell but are still airtight. On the other hand, I replace SCADS of skidoo (BRP) and Polaris manifolds that de-laminate from the metal clamping base in a few short years. Rubber quality and the production process ain't what it used to be. Thanks, China and skinflint businessmen.:thumbsdown:
 
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