• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 everything just came to a hault

Travis Thompson

Travis Thompson

Husqvarna
A Class
My lower rod bearing blew on me today while riding which made the piston hit the head and so now im out like 400$ which I dont have. Im considering selling my bike as is or maybe fixing it. Im just not sure its worth puting more money in this bike or not.
 
I know but just dont want to put 400$ into it and something else go wrong. I emailed halls to get the exact cost but im leaning on keeping it or at least fixing it and then selling it.
 
i was using amsoil then used something from autozone. I dont think it had ever been replaced so needed done anyway. The bearing felt kinda loose a while back so i should have just replaced it. it was running fine and then it started to want to die so i hurried and shut it off. The bearing was completely covered in lube so i know it didnt happen from not lubed enough. It was running a little lean cause just adjusted carb but only drove it less than a mile before i shut it off.
 
Better to break it down and rebuild everything you can touch. Every bearing, every seal. Inspect carefully. It costs nothing to tear it apart and make an extensive parts list. After that, you have a fresh engine. Not many used bikes will have that and surely not at the same price. What else can go wrong that is a major expense? Fork seals? LOL!

Then again, deals are out there for other bikes. Depends on how much you like what you have.
 
Yah i think im going to just fix it but i was already planning to do all bearings and seals. After reading so much on here about the older huskies and how they last a long time I think ill keep it. The only thing i dont like about it is my seat (someone saved it down) and the footpegs.
 
The link below is for Andrewgc, a great member at ktmtalk. Excellent service and inexpensive too. He does awesome crank work, we usually just send him the complete bottom end. If you choose him just call him to talk about it first in case parts are an issue at all.

http://www.cookseycrank.com/

I use the same username there, you can tell him I referred you if you want.
 
I am going to rebuild my own crank. Thanks though. Ive done it before on my kdx 80. If for some reason i cant though I will talk to the people you recommended
 
Good luck and hey, if you need advice, Andrew is great. Just join that forum and reach out to him. He has always been the kind of guy to give a lot of great info there.

If you change your mind, he gets the crank absolutely perfect. Our EXC300 ran silky smooth after he did the crank. That is a job that seems simple but requires a bit of skill and a dose of experience and black magic. It was a different bike after that rebuild, I credit the crank balance for that 100%.
 
Not sure where you're located at, but enough places should be fairly local to help with the crank. Not just motorcycle shops either, go carts use dirt bike engines and they run them new max RPM. So, any go cart race shop should be able to do a fantastic job. I think the last one I had done was about $45 locally. You'll probably spend that in shipping.
 
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