• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 V-force 3 Quickly worn out.

Kipje

Kipje

Husqvarna
Hi you guys, i'm new on this forum.

I run a WR300 2010, i just did a full rebuild on it. (new bigend, piston, powervalve, mainbearings and crank seals and new read petals).
After 15 hrs it started to run funny and was a bitch to start. it took me a lot of time to realize that my reed valve was failing.
There's alsmost one side completely missing. Others are cracked. I can see a lot of cracks in the top layer of the reed petal.

My questions are, is this normal wear? If not what would cause this?

(i also attached some microscope photo's of the petals)20161212155338042.jpgWP_20161202_20_24_58_Pro.jpgWP_20161202_20_25_03_Pro.jpg
 
Wow thats strange. My original reeds were almost perfect at 100 hours when i put my first piston in. Maybe you got a defective pair? Did it ever backfire or ingest any water???
 
I don't know if the V-Force 3's were the ones affected but the original, O.E.M. part numbered V-Force reeds were really thin and didn't last long(I wish I could remember if it was the '2" or "3" )...the replacement reeds 'from' V-Force are thicker. I have them on my WR125 and are still in great shape with almost 120 hours..
 
It's not normal wear. I suggest you send the pics to V-Force and see what they have to say. I had this happen once on some new Boysen reeds and they upgraded them to better reeds for free. I find most performance parts companies to be very helpful if you ask nicely.
 
The husky dealer spoke to the vforce guys on my be half. I'm getting a complete new assembly. With the petals for free. Once I have it in my workshop I'll post a picture of the difference. Apparently the design of the v force 3 has changed due to lifetime issues. For some ktm model they last as short as 3 hrs? We'll see how the new one holds up.
 
hi guys, i have received the new reed-assembly. Strangly i got a honda CR250 part. which was easy to adapt. i could'nt see any difference between the cages? WP_20161227_11_57_50_Pro.jpgWP_20161227_14_49_07_Pro.jpgWP_20161227_11_59_47_Pro.jpgthe left side is the "worn" cage, the right side is the new one. After install the bike is running strong again.
 
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