• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Moly and ceramic coatings

Chef

Chef

Husqvarna
AA Class
Has anyone had pistons coated? There are moly coatings for the skirt and ceramic for the dome. A guy not far from me does it. I need to put a new piston in my 02 cr and the barrel is currently out to be re coated I'm wondering about having this done.... not so much for performance, more for reliability. Any thoughts?
 
It really deopends on how the coatings are applied. If the moly is simply sprayed on the baked I would say no stay away from that because they moly will tend to come off and deposit itself on the bore and keep the rings from seating properly. If the moly is plasma sprayed or gas vapor deposited then it's not a bad idea.
If you're not looking for the performance gain you might as well stay away from the ceramic coating on the tops because it does nothing for increased durability and has a possibility of flakeing off and scoreing the cylinder. That would usually only happen if you encounter some preignition (which the ceramic helps avoid) but it's one more thing to go wrong.
 
Thanks:
I will forego the coatings on the piston.
I talked to eric today, the nikosil was fine in the cylinder, he honed it for me to clean it up and it is now on its way home.... seems like great service. Can't wait to fire it up again:applause::applause:
 
There are several big bore guys on the KTM forum running the Swain coatings and having good results.
 
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