• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 I kick and kick and kick

The WR360 is even more of a bear to start. It is imperative to find tdc and then give it a thorough drubbing towards the rear axle from a position over the bars. On a side note since I installed a RB designs PWK38 from a KTM380, starting has become a single kick if you mean it proposition:thumbsup:. Nothing like the lazy, rest your foot on the kick starter motion of a tiddler. I would send any carb, mikuni or PWK to RB designs for their treatment if I had a WR300.
 
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Did you take care of all this? Mine wouldn't start well until the starter air jet was swapped.
 
no e-button said:
I have a thumb drive and a paper manual..and I don't see this anywhere. Where did you find it?
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Follow the link above (post #24), it is the manual for a 2009/2010, that is why I asked if this procedure applied to the 2011 also, as it is not listed in that manual (as far as I know)

Friday I'm going to try to head to the dealer and find out what was done to the carb prior to when I picked it up, he stated it was rejetted before I got it.
 
This is awesome, I've been wondering what to do with that bag of jets I have, but I have the wrong needle for the 250...anyone know where to get one?
 
no e-button said:
I am the proud owner of a new 2011 WR300. On my first ride I had to drop the clip on the slide pin because it was running too lean and it was really hard to start…Well, now it runs great, but still is a pain in % &$#* to start..I am taking major ribbing from my KTM buddies with their fancy “e-start buttons”
I did notice that when I held the throttle wide open, it will fire..but not after kicking the crap out of it..I love the bike, but this is a problem..Does anyone have a magic bullet for this?
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What Carb and Jetting are you running. I too have a 2011 WR 300 and mine is also hard starting when cold. I have a PWK 38mm with a 38 pilot and 168 main. I started leaving the petcock in the on position between rides and it seems to help with the cold starts. I am new to 2 strokes and this jetting is complicated to me. I don't have anything to compare to so I can't tell if I'm running lean or rich. It seems to be blubbery at low end rpms, but I love some feed back on jetting. Also I am using Amsoil intercepter 50:1.
 
Don't throw stones at me but....I'm glad I didn't get a 250/300 Husky. I hate a bikes that are hard to start! My 144 Husky starts like a champ. On the RB tip, I'll second that. We sent my sons 2011 TM 250 MX carb and head to Ron and it's a unreal how much better the bike runs everywhere.
 
Jet it right and learn to kick it and they are no big deal. When cold turn the gas and chock on, lean the bike over till gas runs out the overflow. Then put the bike in second gear and rock it back and forth so you can here the motor rolling over a little. This loads the crank case and usually starts 1-2 kicks when cold out.
 
well, bought my 2011 wr 300 a few weeks ago and had the same starting issues ,bring it back to the dealer ,dealer rejjetted the carb , bike started fine cold and WILL NOT restart hot pushed it out of the woods! just bought a PKW went out in the woods today , bike gets hots and will not start !!! 2nd time this POS had to be pushed out
 
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