• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 PWK swap and hydraulic clutch issues...

The 2008 and earlier reed boot side by side with 2009-2014 boot.
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PWK installed with the shorter boot. The airbox boot just clears the shock spring! Happy to see that.
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The new Magura hydraulic clutch kit should be here today. Hope that works as well as the boot swap.

Heath
 
Excellent, great info here again. Sounds like the air boot was a non-issue really, but would have bugged me too.
Highly recommend Honda CR250 reed block gaskets #14132-k23-880, I used 2, 1 on either side of the reed block. No silicon mess or air leaks.

Stock and Terminator clutch cable both touch the bottom of engine case here too. Sounds like the clutch arm mod is easiest solution.

:cheers:
 
Man, I'm glad this parts interchange came up in the discussion. I couldn't stand riding the WR knowing the airbox boot was getting groped like a dirty old man by the shock spring. The shock would have to move a considerable distance to clear the boot when riding. I haven't seen pics of anyone else's bike with this issue, but there was way more contact between those two parts than I was comfortable with. That kind of stuff drives me nuts (Type A personality)!:banghead:

Wife called me and said the Magura arrived today. Will fit (or fight) it on the WR tonight and post up the verdict.

Heath
 
The new Magura kit is a success as well.
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The longer actuating arm on the slave and the shortened adaptor barrel work without hitting the cases or reed block.
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Can't wait to try this stuff out!

Heath
 
Just with some short testing around the house (sorry neighbors). The juice clutch is working fine. The PWK is quick to start the bike (the TMX did too), but the low speed fueling of the PWK is much more consistent/predictable than the TMX. Granted this is a pseudo-impression as I've not had Mr. Husky on real single track trail with this set up. But, my subdivision loop (:rolleyes:) makes me happy I did swap these parts.

Certainly will have better details on how the 300 performs after my riding trip this weekend.

I think anybody swapping a PWK or non-shortened Lectron on a 2009 or newer WR needs to order one of these shorter reed boots with the carb. If I had known at the time, I would have.

Peter at Magura was huge help as well. Sometimes the standard WR300 kit works, sometimes it doesn't (as in my case).

Thanks for all the help.:notworthy:

Heath
 
Have been really busy since I've been back from my riding trip, or I would have posted sooner.

With a few simple mods... This WR300 is one of the BEST off road motorcycles I've ridden. I'm so glad I didn't pay twice the price for a KTM (orange or white) and get stuck with the 4CS fork. I was very pleased with the open cartridge Kayaba/Sachs combo. I've not had stock suspension do such a good job on rocks, roots, bumps, ruts and other trail junk as the 2014 WR. I'm sure it will be even better with some tailored spring rates/valving and a steering damper.

The bike refuses to stall or stop moving forward. I rode right through several sections that I know I would have stalled or wrecked on my CRF450. It gives me more confidence to tackle tougher sections as I know the bike won't do something weird or annoying, it'll just keep moving on up the trail.

The 45 pilot was a bit rich for the West Virginia mountains, but the 175 main seemed spot on. Even with a fat pilot, the PWK has been a great improvement. Consistent low throttle fuel metering, excellent mileage, and predicable starting hot or cold. The Magura hydraulic clutch is light with good solid engagement/disengagement point. That point never changes regardless if the clutch is cold or getting beaten/abused on a nasty single track. Glad I did the swap and would do it again.

Really loving the WR300. Can't wait to ride it again.

When time allows, I'll post some GoPro vids of my trip.

Heath
 
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