• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 shift fork issue?

ryboj

ryboj

Husqvarna
AA Class
I just sold my 04WR250 to my friend and there is a small issue with the bike I wanted to get corrected for him (yes I did mention it to him before selling). Unfortunately, "sometimes" (typically if not shifted with intent) the bike will shift into a funky neutral area when going from first to second. Only is first to second it seems, no other times. It's not a regular neutral, it feels a little different. Either way, it's still very much a neutral area in the tranny.

Does anyone know what this is? Bike has low hours and has been well maintained. Original owner mentioned having the shift fork corrected early on when he first bought it.

If someone does have an idea what it might be, can anyone estimate the repair at a local Husky shop? Can the engine stay mounted, etc?

Thanks! Ryan
 
No love ? At least give me an idea guys if you know. I need to know how much I might be in for to help my friend get his bike fixed that I sold him. Need to sleep at night. :)
 
Sometimes, the detents on the shifting drum don't always hold too well. Since neutral is right between first and second, it can "roll back" if the shift isn't postive enough. I had a Kawasaki KLX300 that had to actually get a heavy duty aftermarket shift return spriing and a specially remachined star selector to keep the shift drum from randomly ending up between gears....especially between first and second.
 
Thanks DirtDame.... the original owner mentioned something that you did about the issue, and that is making the shift a positive one, like you mean it. He said the first to second throw is fairly substantial in length. He recommended to my friend that he lower the gift shifter a notch so he'll naturally give it more engagement when he shifts, but I'm not sold it will correct it 100%. At least now I have an idea as to how the mechanism works. Hopefully all of which isn't splitting cases or anything like that. Great info DirtDame.
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Keep it coming if someone has anything else to add.
 
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