• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Lost vent hose and nipple WR 300 gearbox.

Johnnymannen

Johnnymannen

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi guys and happy new year! 2 days ago when we where riding i think i lost my vent hose:=(. I have never seen this before, but both the hose and nipple just next to the clutch arm is missing. Isn't that strange? Has anyone experienced this before? Now there's just a hole down in to the gearbox/clutch. Is there any special solution to this or is ity just very bad and unusual luck? Trans.oil was grey when i changed it of course... The terrain where we rode was like the movie Waterworld with kevin Costner...

Johnny
 
I had one disappear on a yamaha once. You can get a new one from Husky, I glue them in with a little silicone. Probably would never happen again
you're the only other person i've heard of to loose one.
 
Johnnymannen said:
Hi guys and happy new year! 2 days ago when we where riding i think i lost my vent hose:=(. I have never seen this before, but both the hose and nipple just next to the clutch arm is missing. Isn't that strange? Has anyone experienced this before? Now there's just a hole down in to the gearbox/clutch. Is there any special solution to this or is ity just very bad and unusual luck? Trans.oil was grey when i changed it of course... The terrain where we rode was like the movie Waterworld with kevin Costner...

Johnny
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surely it wasnt that bad mate! itd have to be the worst terrain of all time! :)
 
My riding buddy lost his about a month ago. He ordered a new one. I think he put some kind of adhesive on it this time
 
shawbagga said:
surely it wasnt that bad mate! itd have to be the worst terrain of all time! :)
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Yep, really bad conditions! We had to "carry the bikes over the water crossings. Very nice ;=)! Zero degree water=)! My son is crazy. When we come to the crossings he's not afraid! He just keep the speed up and give the 125WR some serious revs and go for it. Many times he gets over where the other guys don't. He's the only young guy and all my friends just laughs when he goes thru the obstacles! I ordered a new hose and nipple today and will do the glueing to keep it in place!

Johnny
 
I lost mine a few weeks ago too. I was riding in the dusty desert, opposite conditions. I covered it with duct tape for the remainder of ride. My oil was real gray as well. I flushed it with a quart of oil. Then did 2 back to back oil changes, just to make sure there wasn't any crap in there still. It was about $4.50 USD for the part from my local Husky shop. I ordered 2 just in case. Kind of a silly design, how the plug just press fits in. I ziptied the new hose to a carb vent hose. This way, the hose wont get caught and pull out the plug again.
 
marcmo0 said:
I lost mine a few weeks ago too. I was riding in the dusty desert, opposite conditions. I covered it with duct tape for the remainder of ride. My oil was real gray as well. I flushed it with a quart of oil. Then did 2 back to back oil changes, just to make sure there wasn't any crap in there still. It was about $4.50 USD for the part from my local Husky shop. I ordered 2 just in case. Kind of a silly design, how the plug just press fits in. I ziptied the new hose to a carb vent hose. This way, the hose wont get caught and pull out the plug again.
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Ok, then i'm not the only one! Good idea to ziptie it! maybe even drag it up over the carb would work, like some do with the carb vent hoses. Then it won't hook up and it won't suck in any water either. The only thing is that you don't want condensated water to go in.
 
Johnnymannen said:
Ok, then i'm not the only one! Good idea to ziptie it! maybe even drag it up over the carb would work, like some do with the carb vent hoses. Then it won't hook up and it won't suck in any water either. The only thing is that you don't want condensated water to go in.
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hey johnny my bike would suck water like a camel in deep water crossings rendering the gearbox oil a milkshake when i got home from riding(live in the tropics mate-lotsa water, lots n lots of water!) sick of having to continually change/flush gearbox so got a longer hose and ran it up into airbox along with top 2 carby breather hoses. never had a drama since with water take up or bike stalling mid creek-bit sketchy with salties lurking about but certainly gets ya heart rate up! just make the hose long enough so you can point them downwards(i ziptie mine to subframe rails under seat & tuck em down between airbox/side panels. works a treat mate
 
Johnnymannen said:
Ok, then i'm not the only one! Good idea to ziptie it! maybe even drag it up over the carb would work, like some do with the carb vent hoses. Then it won't hook up and it won't suck in any water either. The only thing is that you don't want condensated water to go in.
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makes the wr amphibious!
 
shawbagga said:
makes the wr amphibious!
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yeah, great tip there, Shawbagga! I'll get som long hoses and follow your advice! We'll be riding this Friday i guess so i'll fix that until then. On Saturday it's dynotime for my ported Honda CR 500=)! Will be very intresting to see what it gives with new handbuilt Dynoport pipe and some other mods!
 
Johnnymannen said:
yeah, great tip there, Shawbagga! I'll get som long hoses and follow your advice! We'll be riding this Friday i guess so i'll fix that until then. On Saturday it's dynotime for my ported Honda CR 500=)! Will be very intresting to see what it gives with new handbuilt Dynoport pipe and some other mods!
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that thing will be off chops! you must have a very understanding missus mate:)
 
I lost the whole thing after a stupid branch decided to cross my path :)

Just tap a new fitting Johnny and l run the vent pipe up and along the frame (under the tank) up to/near the top of the triple clamp with a panty hose for a filter...if you are going through water, less likely to suck water from up there.
 
shawbagga said:
that thing will be off chops! you must have a very understanding missus mate:)
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haha! The missus just left the building! I'm solo again and i do what i want, and that includes a lot of playing with my bikes;=)! It's nice to have a good woman, but if she doesn't understand and accept my intrests it won't work, that's it. But i don't complain. There is thousands of them around;=).

Johnny
 
ohmygewd said:
I lost the whole thing after a stupid branch decided to cross my path :)

Just tap a new fitting Johnny and l run the vent pipe up and along the frame (under the tank) up to/near the top of the triple clamp with a panty hose for a filter...if you are going through water, less likely to suck water from up there.
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Ok! well, up there it won't have much of a chance to suck water for sure! hanks for the tip!

Johnny
 
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