• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

125-200cc What does this sound like?

erock

erock

Husqvarna
A Class
So I raced a Hare Scramble the other weekend on my 2014/110 anniversary/2013.5 (title says 2014) CR 125. The bike is stock with exception of a 36mm Electron and a few other bits for woods, big tank, small bars etc., but the Lectron is really the only performance mod. Any way...after an 8 year hiatus from racing I started and finished an awesome Hare Scramble in VA. There were several crashes, nothing high speed just lost it over a few technical spots. So I finish the race, get back to the pit, park the bike and eat lunch. About an hour or so later I fired the bike up and wheel it up on to the trailer. Then we make the 3 hour drive home, unload and the bike sits in the shed for 2 days while I wait for my body to catch up with my mind. 2 days later I pull the bike out for a wash and breakdown to asses any damage. Normally, I use choke to start, then wont need it again until the next ride day. I notice the rubber boot on the lectron that holds the choke up will not hold it up anymore. So I called lectron and no questions asked they mailed me a new choke boot (awesome customer service). Well I managed to finagle the old boot to hold the choke up while I waited for the new one to arrive. Recap, I have done nothing to the bike since the race, at which time it started and ran fine. OK, choke up and I kick and kick and kick, ya get the idea. She won't start. It has spark, fuel and air. I noticed the plug was really wet after kicking it, so ya its flooded, but I also noticed after several kicks and a bump start the bike is spitting a good amount of gas straight out of the pipe, not on every kick but maybe every 10th or so. So I pulled the carb, cleaned everything including the choke assembly, but there's not much to do with a Lectron so I put it back together and I still won't start with excessive flooding. I will call Lectron for advice but wanted to ask here first considering how this came about, I thought I might be something with bike and not the carb. Any advice is appreciated, or if more detail is needed please let me know. Thanks.
 
Was there much in the way of water crossings at the race?

Where are your carb vent lines? How long, and how low do they hang?

Did you wash the bike since the race? Did you use an exhaust plug, and avoid the holes to the air box?

Looking in the clear float bowl, after letting it sit a few minutes, is there a line of separation? As in gas on top of water?

I'd be surprised if that was gas making it all the way out of the pipe. Did you try pulling the pipe off and dumping out anything in it? I'm really betting on this being a water problem.

I had made longer vent lines and routed them up by my air box, but they came down last weekend during a 9 hour race and clogged up with some creek water. It was doing the same before I realized what was going on, seems that if the vents are clogged, the excess gas will pour into the crank case. Once I found the problem and cleared the vents, cut the hoses down, it fired up as expected, first kick.
 
Pull the plug and have someone drag you around until it stops spitting fluids. Sounds like either the float stuck (not likely but possible) while you were driving and filled the engine with gas. Somehow you ether filled it with water or gas and it needs flushed out. I have had this happen on a few vintage bikes.

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Yep, loaded to the gills. Did you shut the gas off prior to trailering? Pull the pipe and dump it. Repack silencer. with pipe off, sparkplug out, throttle wide-open, gas off, and KILL SWITCH PRESSED, kick it a ton, or get a tow in first to clean it out. If you overlook the killswitch bit, you are asking for a fire or a fried CDI.
 
In addition to the ATK above I had this same issue on my 86 WR400. Was so full of fuel it was crazy. Pulled the plug and had a buddy pull me around the parking lot with fuel spraying everywhere. Was ridiculous how much gas came out. Put a plug in and still had to have him pull me till it started. Rode it the rest of the day with zero issues but it kinda scared me for the first few miles as i knew the muffler was soaked! Not a fun situation to be in but I drove 3 hours to ride i was going to ride damit.
 
Remember when crankcases had drain plugs?! Lol. We get hydraulically locked stuff at the shop fairly regularly.
 
Thanks guys. I pulled the pipe and it was full. Pulled out the silencer packing as well and it was soaked. I appreciate the help, I wouldn't have thought to check that as this was my first time having this happen.

mssmith345, yes, multiple river crossing. You nailed it with the first question, nice!
 
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