• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Polished rod!

lankydoug said:
My 250 looked exactly like that. On many high performance engines the rod beam is polished for strength. The idea is there's less of a chance for a crack to start and the rough surface does nothing to add strength.
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The rod of my WR300 2010 also looked the same, It's a finish that comes from stock. I supposed it was to enhance flow, didn't thought about ^ that theory.

Regards.
 
Shawry, let's look at this from another angle.
Q. What would polish a conrod while in service?
A. Nothing that wouldn't destroy the rest of the engine.

I'd bet that's the factory finish. Don't worry about anymore it mate.
 
Yeah she's all good back together & running strong. As a side note I had new reed petals ready to go but after 160 hours the current ones still looked pretty good so I left them be. Very minor wear on the end of a couple of them but no cracks. See if they can make another 100 hours! Thought they might be shot as normally have a bit of 2T oil in bottom of airbox
 
These are good stuff. Thats anodizing wearing off. That from a picture looks real good. If bearing has any discolor might be concerned.
 
bulto said:
These are good stuff. Thats anodizing wearing off. That from a picture looks real good. If bearing has any discolor might be concerned.
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Ahh it was just the wrist pin bearing had a bit of discolouration on one side(zoom in ya can see it on photo) but in its defence it had done 157 hours!
 
Speaking of little end bearings I was running a 19.7mm(I think) wide bearing which are the same as KTM/Beta but it should be 21.8mm(I think-manual/parts fiche states). Not sure why I had the skinnier bearing in there I guess it was all I had at the time & what I was sent. Is there any downside to running the skinnier bearing yas reckon? More lateral movement/wear?
 
Ahh legend Crocus that was the thread I was thinking of! Fortunately mine was all good inside little end. 32:1 with predominantly our 98 octane & try start every coupla weeks at least(generally gets ridden at least every seond weekend). Cheers mate
 
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