• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Cylinder Honing

MotoMarc36 said:
The final act in producing a new cylinder, or when one gets re-plated, IS a honing process. So obviously there are needs and benefits of honing a plated cylinder. It is a polarizing topic, so just do what works for you. Better for a two-stoke than a ball-hone is a "brush hone". They lessen the chance of plating damage at the port openings by the large globs of aluminum oxide found on ball hones.

Muriatic acid is absolutely the best way to remove aluminum galling on any cylinder. But, a WORD OF CAUTION: If the galling is near a port, absolutely don't let acid leach into the port, it will attack the bare aluminum there. Be accurate with the application. Wipe it and re-apply often and check progress. If the plating is fractured under the aluminum gall, you can put an unwanted "cavity" in your cylinder wall. If you must work near a port, grease the port walls to protect them.
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Great post. Thanks
 
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