• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR 250 transmission oil

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Husqvarna
B Class
Hi guys I was wondering what oil you are runing, I bought a new 2011 and It seems to have alot of clutch drag and is noisy in idle.
 
Clutch drag isn't so great, but gear clatter is fairly normal in neutral, with straight cut gears that have no load on them. I like to use Hondaline Pro Honda transmission oil in most of my two strokes.
 
454x said:
Anybody ever used ATF? I'm curious as to the performance.
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I used it in my old KX and my daughters KTM 85 (winter only, summer I use rotella) with zero problems, I just changed it after every ride (1.5-6hrs). I tried it in my WR, but it didn't like it. Felt clunky, I have a little drag with rotella but I can handle that.
 
454x said:
Anybody ever used ATF? I'm curious as to the performance.
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I've used ATF+4 and it worked pretty good but the Rotella seem to make the clutch a little smoother feeling. I looked up the specs on ATF+4 O'Reilly brand and it was 25 weight if rated like gear oil and the 15w40 Rotella was 50 weight which is what Husky calls for, besides that I always have gallons of it on hand since I use it in my diesel truck and bulldozer. I even use it in my Honda Rancher utility 4 wheeler.
 
I had a lot of clutch drag with regular motor oil. Mobil synthetic seems to make my clutch much happier.
 
I am now using Castrol Actevo Xtra 4T 10w40, part synthetic.
A little clutch drag when cold, but doesn't need a lot of warm-up to go away.
Some other tips from Bill's helped too.
 
Clete said:
I am now using Castrol Actevo Xtra 4T 10w40, part synthetic.
A little clutch drag when cold, but doesn't need a lot of warm-up to go away.
Some other tips from Bill's helped too.
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Due tell your tips my friend, I'm in clutch drag hell right now (09) 250...
 
Castrol MTX, have tried ATF a few time but it seems to thin out a little too quickly but it was better shifting wise. We don't get that type of rotella (diesel oil yeah?) in Australia.

If you have severe clutch drag, l'd be inspect the clutch plates and basket for notches - notched clutch basket causes the clutch plates to bind. Also, the cable could be stretched resulting in the basket just disengaging so check the cable and adjust.
 
I was using the Castrol Power RS Racing 4T 5w40 for the last couple of years and really liked it. Problem was it was hard to get, so I gave the Royal Purple a try.
 
MOTORHEAD said:
I was using the Castrol Power RS Racing 4T 5w40 for the last couple of years and really liked it. Problem was it was hard to get, so I gave the Royal Purple a try.
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Is it Purple? Just bustin your chops! I'll have to try it since it is readily available up in my area.
 
454x said:
Due tell your tips my friend, I'm in clutch drag hell right now (09) 250...
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I run my clutch with hardly any free play. I had to play with internal & lever adjuster to get it to its best
Also run chain a little looser than norm as well
 
Clete said:
I run my clutch with hardly any free play. I had to play with internal & lever adjuster to get it to its best
Also run chain a little looser than norm as well
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Is the internal part easy to adjust?
 
dartyppyt said:
Is it Purple? Just bustin your chops! I'll have to try it since it is readily available up in my area.
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Nope. :(

Same here, it's everywhere now and we have had good results with their products at work. I also know a couple of guys that are running RP in their trucks and claim decent MPG increases. ?????
 
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