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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

250-500cc WR 250 non start

J

jerimiahgandalf

Husqvarna
Hi folks my names lee, im new here.
I've got a husky WR 250 (think it's a 96) and i cant get it running, im getting fuel and air ok.
I've fitted a new spark plug, is there any common faults from the HT lead or coil i should be looking into ?
any help would be highly appreciated.


NOTE; i received the bike as a non-runner.
 
if you have no spark the 1st and easiest test is the kill button
disconnect it and try again, if not,,
when diagnosing do ONE thing at a time
I guess you have or plant to take the tank off
look at all the connections, unplug inspect and reinsert the connection, this is where a little old school wisdom helps, you plan to ride in the dirt and really hope to do some cool creek crossings, well all of these things are EVIL to electrical connections, buy dielectric grease and after you inspect and or clean any connection add dielectric grease and you will prevent connection corrosion
typically these are low voltage connections and any loss of voltage takes you out of your working range for performance on your ignition
hope this helps
 
Cleaned all the wiring terminals and carried out resistance tests where i could, no broken wires.
Put a voltmeter onto the live from the stator and im getting a reading when i try and start the engine. Coil pack and ht lead then ?
 
I noticed in my 99 book there is a module in the case of the wr it is a 2 wire
not sure of it's function as I have never had a reason to look, but probably one of the 2
at this point I would find a proper troubleshooting guide on this model and year as parts replacement is the cure but might not permanently solve the base problem
 
I had a stator winding go bad on a bike (not a Husky, but still...), it just failed randomly and the bike died, and it would never start. I took the cover off and ohmed out the windings, all were in spec except for one that was open (or maybe it was a short, I can't remember). In any case, it was clearly out of spec, and a good used part fixed it up, never had a problem again.

The ignition on these is pretty simple. I'd try to find someone semi-local with one that runs, and just swap the few parts until it runs. If that is not an option, try to find someone selling some used parts.

Sometimes you can ohm out a coil and see if it is bad, and some shops have coil testers. I'd check the coil and the stator with an ohmmeter first, it's the easiest thing to do. Then start swapping parts...
 
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