• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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 Starting issues solved

Sandgroper

Sandgroper

Husqvarna
AA Class
Im no wizz with smokers but on and off Ive had trouble starting the bike whenever its left for a week or so between rides. The problem appears to be oil settling in the carb (well so Ive been told).
What I do now (which has worked everytime) is after each ride I switch the fuel off and let it continue to idle for about 2 minutes then turn the engine off. I then hold the bike on its side to fully drain the carb. Once drained after a few seconds its ready to be stored away.
When the next ride arrives I give the tank/bike a bit of a shake before turning the fuel tap on. This has resulted in the bike starting within the firt 3 kicks each time.

I dont know if this simple process is common knowledge but it was news to me and wanted to share it :thumbsup:
 
I drain all the carbs on all my bikes, both two and four stroke after each ride. There is ethanol in the fuel here, and even with a stabilizer, the stuff sitting in the carb seems to go bad right away. I can leave a bike to sit for only a week and if I drain the carb then, the gas that dribbles out is foul and green as though it has sat for several months. The fuel in the tank seems to be okay though. Seems like the two stroke oil that I use stays disbursed really well in the gasoline. I recently switched over to a stabilizer designed for marine engines which is supposed to help combat the problems caused by ethanol fuel. I'll see how that works.
 
Olds school trick of laying the bike over BEFORE you go to start it works well too. Gets semi fresh gas to the carb and slops some in the intake for rich condition for starting. I'm old school so I do this all the time, works great.
 
You can call that an old school trick but the old stuff had tickler buttons at least the Brittish sutff I had. I only learned about that laying the bike over when I bought a new ktm 200 in 2004 The dealer showed me it and it is only for when it is real cold. I tried that on my 2004 wr 250 husky and that was a mistake I finally got it going but will never do that again on that bike. My 125 husky has had the gas left on virtually all the time, it has made a few small stains lately so I started turning it off but leaving it on didn't hurt starting of that one. I don't know exactly what the newest bikes have for petcocks but one of mine gave gas flavored fingers within a year so leave it on has it's logic if you can ride from where you park it.

Fran
 
Im use to leaning my old 4 stroke bikes over with flooding problems so I guess this is the same solution to starting problems :)
 
I have never had this problem with mine. The only time it is hard to start is when its Stinking hot & on the side of a hill & I'm not talking about the motor being hot
 
Im not sure what effect cold weather and the race head has on starting as well. I know one thing this new race head needs a bit more leg to kick her over.
 
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