• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 What did you do to your Husky today?

Replaced the clutch I killed today. 177cc's was just too much for it :lol:


(Walt had said it was due for replacement when he had my engine, guess he was right :D )
 
OH and ever since I got my engine back from Walt I had a squeak that would come and go. Was driving me nuts as I could never duplicate it while sitting still. Finally found it when I went to replace the clutch. The tangs on the old frictions were rubbing the cover :confused:

I did ~40 miles marking out a horse enduro event with the new clutch kit and it hasn't made a peep.

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Backdated the plastics on my '99 WR177. Picked up a '95 WXC360 & matching WXE250 parts bike a month or so, so the plastics from the '95 parts bike went on. Wanted to snag the IMS tank for my CR250 and don't have a '00-04 WR tank. Everything bolted up perfect except the 00+ 125 Silencer. 2 brackets out of aluminum and the silencer fits perfectly. I have the specs for anyone wanting to use a 00+ Silencer (and pipe) on a pre-00 subframe 125.

Still needs a Taillight, earlier blue fork guards & different headlight.

1999 WR177 backdated plastics by Benjamin M, on Flickr

1999 WR177 backdated plastics by Benjamin M, on Flickr
 
Made these today at work. Love the 45mm Shiver's but I've broken the rebound screws on multiple sets. Fished them out of the top cap, then cut off the flathead adjuster portion and drilled/tapped to M4x0.7mm @ 10mm deep. Then machined some knurled knobs to fit inside the fork cap and thread into the adjuster. Need to machine an o-ring groove so debris doesn't get into the forks.

45mm Zokes machined rebound adjusters by Benjamin M, on Flickr

45mm Zokes machined rebound adjusters by Benjamin M, on Flickr

45mm Zokes machined rebound adjusters by Benjamin M, on Flickr
 
Broke the spring that returns the shift shaft/lever to center this morning :mad: Looks like the ol' KX125 gets to go racing this weekend instead.

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As soon as I touched the spring one of the legs snapped off.

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Let's start a "new" thread on current riding, modifications, maintenance, etc. Now that it's winter and riding is limited I think most guys are modifying/refurbishing their bikes this time of year. Let's see 'em so we can all enjoy and get ideas.

I'll start:

New seat and foot pegs
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Billet front brake reservoir cover
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The seat and pegs certainly are grippier, the billet cover is pretty much useless bling (KTM orange unfortunately)

Bike Porn
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Waiting on a steering damper from Motosportz, then I'm going to send off my suspension to ZipTy for a revalve now that it's broken in.

This bike is bloody sick~! Are you kidding me. Love it. What year and cc is this trophy. Love all the modz. You lost your mind on this beauty.
 
Blew a seal on the 165 front caliper at some point and waiting on the parts, so started eye balling the 300 front brake.
Was surprised it's virtually the same except a much nicer brake line. So installed it and got to ride after all today :banana:
 
I got the replacement spring for the shifter put in today

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Then kicked it over a few times and it locked up solid. WTF :mad: :mad: So tear it all back down again and I have to pry the clutch basket out because it is wedged in there so tight.


I'm getting reallllllllly sick of your shit husky. (intermediate kick start gear). It also damaged the gear on the back of the clutch basket :mad:

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It does seem that one of the teeth had broken off prior to today since one break is clean and the other dirty. Guess I should be happy it didn't get run through the trans gears too.
 
In the less frustrating department I redid my skid plate today also (after fixing the spring but before breaking the gears)


Skid plate v.1 seems to be holding up well enough other than ripping off the bolted on side guards so I worked on v.2 today

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v.2, all one piece

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Looks like delrin, sad news about your idler gear. Check the stub it mounts to on the cases as if that's moved it would broken your cases. IMG_20160513_075306713_HDR.jpg also check the bearing surface for wear.
 
Hey gots_a_sol, what material is that plate? It looks great.


It was listed as HDPE. It is 3/8" thick.


I heated it up with a heat gun and bent it in my press brake. I got close with the side wings but had to put the skid on the bike to finish forming it (heated them then ratchet strapped in tight to the bike until they cooled)

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Looks like delrin, sad news about your idler gear. Check the stub it mounts to on the cases as if that's moved it would broken your cases. View attachment 73261 also check the bearing surface for wear.


I looked it over and the stub seems to be fine. I'll order a new bearing with the gear to be just to be safe.



So when the idler broke it damaged the gear on the clutch basket.

The damage. I honestly thought I had a billet paperweight at this point since the parts fiche making it look like the small gear is part of the basket.

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Emergency meeting of the clutch baskets.

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And a sacrifice was made.

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I know it sounds stupid but have you counter both sets of teeth on your gears, I'm aware the 250's an 360's are different.
But if those are all from and for the same cc you should be golden.
 
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