This forum is great. Most questions I have are already answered here. So this is the 1st answer I'm looking for since my switch to Husqvarna in 03/12. I have a 2012 WR125. In the process of installing the 144. Its fairly straight forward. Kit came with a base gasket thickness unknown. With 4 thicknesses available I would like to know the procedure to determine which gasket to use. Can't find any spec. in workshop manual.
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
125-200cc Piston to Head Gap
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johnnyboy
Husqvarna
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You have to measure the squish to find out what base gasket you should be useing.
I set mine at 1.00mm but have tried a little tighter and a little bigger and never noticed any difference in performance at all.
I would say just use the supplied gasket as my local Husky dealer said they all come stock with the same gasket ( cannot remember how thick it is)
Or you can learn how to set your squish using some soft solder and a good set of calipers as it is easy enough to do, Mine comes out at 1.00mm with the standard gasket and I think thats just about right for the Husky.
I set mine at 1.00mm but have tried a little tighter and a little bigger and never noticed any difference in performance at all.
I would say just use the supplied gasket as my local Husky dealer said they all come stock with the same gasket ( cannot remember how thick it is)
Or you can learn how to set your squish using some soft solder and a good set of calipers as it is easy enough to do, Mine comes out at 1.00mm with the standard gasket and I think thats just about right for the Husky.
Zomby woof
Husqvarna
Pro Class
On my CR150 the base gasket was .5mm. I measured and used a .3 to get the squish to 1mm. I thought I noticed a little more bottom, and a little less hit, but it was pretty subtle.
