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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

250-500cc Gas Cap Leak

SoKal

SoKal

Husqvarna
AA Class
My 2013 WR250 gas cap leaks. If I fill it up all the way it will seep fuel from the cap to tank seal it has the rubber gasket there. Just for the first few miles. Anyone else with this issue.
 
The gasket sucks in the gas cap. If it's not seated just right, it can get cut. Then it will leak more. Worse thing about it though is it can literally fall out of the cap in a pit stop. Can't tell you how annoying it is to pull over in a race, dump gas in and take off only to get a crotch full of gas. Then scouring the pit, someone is apt to steal your damn gasket and you have to find a new one.

Also the cap only grabs at 3 points around the flange, so it will deform that and be another source of potential leaks.

So, yeah, be careful with it and make sure it is seated fully in the cap before torquing it down.


Husky has an aluminum one that I believe has full threads, so it would seat much better. Not sure about the gasket, if it's any better, but it's at least an option.
 
Yep it's just one of the quirks those caps have. I just got used to it and make sure the seal is seated before I put the cap on. It's a PITA but in the scope of things, it's just a minor PITA.:)
 
shawbagga said:
I got the husky hard parts aluminium fuel cap for sale if you decide you want one
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I would like to get that aluminum fuel tank cap, do you still have it? If not, do you know where they are still available? I have seen them for the KTM-Huskys but I am assuming they are not the same size, does anyone know? (I have a 2011 WR300 by the way...) Thanks.
 
This is an old thread, but maybe this can help others... I suffered from the same problem the thread opener had, the OEM rubber gasket sometimes fell off into the tank and at the end it cracked so I checked OEM but it was far too expensive for what it is and I went to a local rubber company and they sold me a piece of Nitrile rubber NBR , I think it was 2mm thick, I cut it out in a donut shape to make room for the inner part of the cap, it fit really good and I had zero issues with that , and it was cheap.

Cheers.
 
I checked the ID of my original cap, measured 65mm.
Found a candidate on ebay, will post an update after I've had a chance to check it.
 
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