• 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.

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250-500cc How many hours?

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Birky_41

Husqvarna
B Class
Just wondering how many hours others have on theirs? More specifically the WR300

I got mine with 170 miles and no hour meter. The water pump had failed and seized so was rebuilt with a fresh piston and then I bought it. Realised what was causing the seizures and fixed that part

Since then I've put 1400 miles and 75-80 hours on it going by hour meter I fitted

Still loads of compression and runs brilliant but I'm think at maybe 120-150 hours it'll need a refresh

I'm not MX racing and thrashing it always but I do a mixture of hard Enduro, Enduro and green laning/trail riding so it does get opened up a fair bit
 
Not sure how many hours you can get on a top end, but I do know that when you see the little "death smile" on the intake side of the piston skirt, it's time to replace your piston before the skirt breaks right there.
 
On my WR300 I did 14831 KM and 531 hours when I sold it , but it already has around 6000 KM on the original trip when I got it so I expect it had about 20000 KM and way over 600 hours.

I usually try to change the pistons at about the 150 hour mark with my riding style. I now have a Beta 300 and the last piston came out with 203 hours as I extended it for a bit more , it still came out okay, only the power valve was full of carbon and did not open more than 50% , I did not even notice it while riding as I rarely rev it up :/
 
Hurky said:
On my WR300 I did 14831 KM and 531 hours when I sold it , but it already has around 6000 KM on the original trip when I got it so I expect it had about 20000 KM and way over 600 hours.

I usually try to change the pistons at about the 150 hour mark with my riding style. I now have a Beta 300 and the last piston came out with 203 hours as I extended it for a bit more , it still came out okay, only the power valve was full of carbon and did not open more than 50% , I did not even notice it while riding as I rarely rev it up :/
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Decent sound advice that thank you

I think my plan is around the 150 mark to replace but I do often (well every time I ride it) get it in the powerband revving
 
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