• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Small rant

SoKal

SoKal

Husqvarna
AA Class
So I call my local Husky dealer my air filter came apart after the third cleaning. It is a Harley and Husky dealer.

they answer:

Me : Husky Parts please
Dealer: This is parts how can I help you
Me: Do you have an air filter for a 2013 WR250
Dealer: Isn't the WR a Yamaha ?
Me: No it's a Husqvarna
Dealer: Oh... well let me check on it

WTF
 
Yup i hate socalled stockists they send wrong sprockets disc's that have four extra mounting holes... Wtf how do they make these simple mistakes.
Thats why i do all work myself and search for product numbers myself so theres no one to blame when the sh#* hits the fan..

Oh kickstart spring delivered two months after i cancelled as they couldnt get them. Wtf kept card details and billed without comfirmation.!

(Thats a rant)
 
not the same but I got sent as front sprocket for a wr 125, the shaft must be different as the teeth were way out, sent it back and went to my local garage who said it needed a talon not a renthal, volla, correct one now on. The girl on the phone of original place even said ''yes it definitley fits the wre as well as the wr''. Also, this guy was on a ktm exc 125, has lights, numberplate but full power like 35 bhp, he got caught with his own headcam footage and some people have no idea what bike it even is, they called it a duke! The duke is a learner legal 4 stroke not a crazy 2 stroke powered enduro racer!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-camera-doing-WHEELIES-driving-bus-lanes.html
 
shrubitup said:
Uh, order from these guys or Halls or Bills. Problem solved.

http://husqvarnaworld.com/
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Tinken said:
There's your problem right there...
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Yes I agree but it was Wednesday night when I pulled the filter out of the cleaner and found the seams coming apart. I needed to be setting up my clubs enduro this weekend no mail order on this one. I bought the bike from this dealer but the parts dept is painful to deal with. Maybe Tinken can get Ty to move to the city so I can use him more.
 
SoKal said:
Yes I agree but it was Wednesday night when I pulled the filter out of the cleaner and found the seams coming apart. I needed to be setting up my clubs enduro this weekend no mail order on this one. I bought the bike from this dealer but the parts dept is painful to deal with. Maybe Tinken can get Ty to move to the city so I can use him more.
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I know what you mean. If you have only one bike it's key to keep common consumables stocked as spares. Couple tires/tubes/chains/sprockets/air filters/pipes and ideally another wheel set and radiators (Chinese). Seems silly but NO dealer anywhere is gonna stock that stuff in their store.
 
Seems coming apart on air filters.... Hot glue gun after a good cleaning works well in a pinch. Turn it inside out and glue from the inside. I have done it before, put some grease where the repairs was on the outside if you are worried.

What do you clean your filters with????
 
When I buy a new bike I also make sure I have a new spare filter the day I.pick up my new bike! I use gas first and then soapy water. Have seen them disengreat not sure why but have seen it. Hook up with a good shop that rides and races what they sell. It sucks but if it would is needed badly you could overnight it. I won't mention names but I once bought a new husky four stroke and the dealer didn't even stock oil filters!!!
 
Joedints said:
Seems coming apart on air filters.... Hot glue gun after a good cleaning works well in a pinch. Turn it inside out and glue from the inside. I have done it before, put some grease where the repairs was on the outside if you are worried.

What do you clean your filters with????
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I just started using twin air's cleaning tub with their solvent that was some of the added frustration. I did get lucky and they had it for that weekend I have gotten a spare now I like the moose ones they have a better seal material at the air box seal.
 
I've tried them all, Twin-air, PJ, etc and even kerosene, gas in the past.....
I like the Bell Ray foam filter cleaner, to me it seems to clean the best and at the local shops cost the least too.... I spray it on the dirty 5 filters (we have 7 filters for 2 bikes, mine 3 and sons 4) let it sit then hose it off. Then I plunge them in a 3 gallon bucket of warm water and a small amount of laundry detergent, hit them with the hose again to rinse and let them dry...
 
I think I've been to the same dealer. You have to wade through ankle booties with fringe and chrome skull valve stem caps to get to parts. Then the tattooed sales guys give you a hard time and say you should be riding a Harley in the dirt. I feel like I'm in some prison movie and I have to take on the biggest meanest guy just to get some fork oil. The one kid who knows anything about dirt bikes has to order everything anyway and it takes a week to two weeks to get it and its full retail price.
They finally built a separate Husky area and entrance, but the parts guy is a H-D guy who must have screwed up and is doing time behind the dirt bike counter.
 
I was passing by a Husky dealer that is closest to me geographically and thought I'd stop and buy a 13 tooth sprocket for my WR250. The parts guy brought out a used sprocket and wanted $35 for it. I asked him "you do realize this sprocket is used right?" he replied "Ya but it wasn't on the bike for very long". I replied "Do you have any new sprockets?" and "Do you realize that I can buy a new sprocket most anywhere for under $20?" He replied "But this one is as good as new". I haven't been back in that place since then. (2 years ago).
 
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