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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Travis Thompson

Travis Thompson

Husqvarna
A Class
image.jpeg i just bought a 91 husky wxe 260 in pretty good shape for 750$ was this a good buy? It just needs a water pump seal and head gasket which i just ordered...What exactly is the power valve and what does it do. I plan on dual sporting it just for in town and to get to trails and stuff. Will it work ok for that? thanks!!
 
It uses two orings for a head gasket and one of them is no longer available... What can i use instead. HELP!!! want to ride again
 
ok...ill have to see since not much where i live. The person that had it before me cut some out of headgasket material which blew and caused all the coolant to go into cylinder.

BAD NEWS!!! i just went and inspected the cylinder and head and saw that there were no grooves in top of cylinder for o rings to fit in!! thats why there was a normal head gasket in there!! What should i do now...any ideas...can i buy plain head gasket and cut it out?
 
oregonsage said:
Call someplace like Bills who has been working on these things for 15 years and has parts going back just as far...

http://billshusky.com
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THE INNER ONE 800044117 $11.78 STILL AVAILABLE <NO ORING GROOVES IN HEAD OR CYLINDER THATS BAD NEWS.
You really cant easily make a head gasket out of paper without a metal fire ring.Will need to have grooves recut for orings or get a top end.Maybe a aluminum thin gasket with red HI TEMP silicone and let dry good.
 
i have some ultra copper hi temp gasket maker...I guess ill just try that. i dont know why someone would remove the grooves? maybe for higher compression? thanks for the fast response.
 
I think there is a guy on eBay who makes copper head gaskets....don't know if he does custom or not though. Why would the o ring grooves be gone...could the head have been planed?
 
it looks like it might have been but still cant see a good reasoon to do it....im gonna try making my own out of head gasket material from napa. here is a picture of the head and cylinder (i know its dirty havent cleaned it yet)
 

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i might do that later on but since its an old bike and not worth much i might not since there are other things it needs...Any one by chance have a cdi for one of these?? they r no longer available and mine u have to heat with heat gun to get it to work sometimes. And im going to need a rectifier...theres one on ebay right now for 37$ i might have to get. Is there a place to get a wiring diagram?? i plan on putting lights and stuff but need to see how to hook it up
 
go to the automotive side of the world and find copper o-rings fairly common mod for blown hi performance stuff
 
Cool bike, but just in that period that isn't supported too well anymore. I'd have Raymond at Hall's on speed dial, if I were you.....

Too bad Morel's isn't in business anymore... Joe has a couple of tractor trailers full of old Husky parts stashed. He was the go to Husky dealer in the North east for years.
 
yah i have actually been emailing raymond for a while he has been helpfull. I wonder if i got ahead with grooves in it if i could use o rings?
 
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