• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Next project - 2002 CR250

Motosportz, do you know if the stock fatbar clamps from later models fit 2002 cr triples? Need new bars and like fatbars too. Thanks.
 
Update: going to try a trials tire again. Getting her ready to lead a group this weekend. Fun.

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All ready for tomorrows mission of gnar. :thumbsup: Install new trials tire, chain, sprockets, brake side rear bearing, Lectron (already runs / starts much better), clean air filter, double check bolts, lube stuff. Man bikes are time consuming. Time for some fun.

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Cable choke is very nice on this tight install.

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I haven't ran a trials tire in years. Its a CR but came to me with a 18 and it has a very luggable motor. I ride the gnar with this bike so it just seems like the right tire to try on the right bike. We will see. It looks funny and is very skinny.

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hmm, looks like a torque plate on the end of the VF3, I suggest an enduro engineering skid plate - it fits my WR300 like a glove, why is your rear axle inserted in reverse? who makes that rear sprocket? looks good.
 
Must say the float height looks a fair bit off on that 38 ! If I set mine that high and lean the bike over a bit it goes all rich and dies at idle, Just saying as others may have the same problem :thumbsup:
 
My axle bolt is the same direction it doesn't make any difference just prefer pushing the bolt in with my right hand.
Good looking bike kelly sure you don't need to be told but less air in trials tyre as will deform better for traction.
 
How did you mount your choke cable? I have the exact same IMS/Lectron set-up and tight for sure. Adjustments are a pain having to remove the tank every time. Glad that once it's right I don't have to do it again when it rains, it's sunny, there are 8 clouds in the sky not 4. The Mikuni makes a great paperweight though.
 
I just bought this bike from a friend last week. I thought I might keep it for the family to use. It is way more bike than my inexperienced family needs. Was thinking about making it a woods bike. I'm more excited after reading you guys enthusiasm. What all is '01 lacking that '02 has? I think one of you guys deserve it more than my old butt does.
 
shrubitup said:
hmm, looks like a torque plate on the end of the VF3, I suggest an enduro engineering skid plate - it fits my WR300 like a glove, why is your rear axle inserted in reverse? who makes that rear sprocket? looks good.
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Yes torque plate and V-force 3 reed block. Was that way when I got it. Makes carb fitting REALLY tight. the rear axle is in reverse (good eye) because my triangle fits that side (left). Makes no difference functionally. Rear sprocket is a PBI, good stuff.
 
johnnyboy said:
Must say the float height looks a fair bit off on that 38 ! If I set mine that high and lean the bike over a bit it goes all rich and dies at idle, Just saying as others may have the same problem :thumbsup:
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Bike ran stinking PERFECT. I love these carbs. Before install I turned the rod 1/4 leaner and turned the PJ from one full turn out to 1/2 turn out (leaner) based on knowing they ship erroring on the rich side and I always end up going leaner for my tight woods riding. Bike starts WAY EZer, has instant response, makes more power, is smoother, pulls incredible everywhere and got way better milage. Funny thing is the stock carb works good, this one just works better in every way.
 
juicypips said:
Good looking bike kelly sure you don't need to be told but less air in trials tyre as will deform better for traction.
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I ran about 8-9 psi. Scared to run less as I ride a lot of rocks. Worked excellent and I sat at the top of several greasy slimy nasty hills yesterday waiting for my crew. On one big hill buddy adam got stopped by slick clay and roots in fornt of me. I stopped, lined up an even nastier section to go around and motored by. Was shocking the amount of grip those tires have in situation you think they would not work at all. Takes a different approach to handling and steering but once you readjust your lines and thinking they are pretty amazing. Will do a short writeup on it.
 
mkfox said:
How did you mount your choke cable? I have the exact same IMS/Lectron set-up and tight for sure. Adjustments are a pain having to remove the tank every time. Glad that once it's right I don't have to do it again when it rains, it's sunny, there are 8 clouds in the sky not 4. The Mikuni makes a great paperweight though.
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for now just let it dangle out the right side. EZ to get to and hardly ever needed. As for adjustments as above I leaned my out before installing and ended up perfect. Adjusting it would be no big deal, quick remove seat, one 8mm bolt, pull the hose and the tank is off. 2 minutes. Rotate carb pull out slide. EZ. And like you said, once you get it where you like it you really never need to adjust anything but the idle.

mkfox said:
The Mikuni makes a great paperweight though.
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it does except it is stinky :>) I have Lectrons on every carbed bike I own and ride now (165, 250, XC500). Kinda hate standard carbs anymore.
 
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