• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 vs 360

SmokeyExpress said:
Those Mikunis seem to be funny things! I have an old TM on my 96 360 & it seems to work flawlessly, my brother has a TMX on his 05 wr250 & it's great! Yet the one on my 13 wr300 seems to be a cantankerous fickle thing! Yet if I remember correctly the older YZ's ran TMX carbs & I don't recall hearing anyone complaining about them? Go figure!
Sorry to hijack the thread!
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thats because the tmxx is the newer one that everyone says is awful
 
I struggled with the TMX on my 2000 WR250, 2002 WR250, and 2003 Honda CR250R. I didn't realize that I was struggling until I switched to a Keihin PWK. They all ran...
 
SmokeyExpress said:
Those Mikunis seem to be funny things! I have an old TM on my 96 360 & it seems to work flawlessly, my brother has a TMX on his 05 wr250 & it's great! Yet the one on my 13 wr300 seems to be a cantankerous fickle thing! Yet if I remember correctly the older YZ's ran TMX carbs & I don't recall hearing anyone complaining about them? Go figure!
Sorry to hijack the thread!
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I have also found this to be true.
 
I have a TMX38 on my 06. If I have $450 that I can't find anything else to spend on begging to leave my wallet, I will consider one of the fabled Lectrons
 
I got my Mikuni to work very good on my 09 WR250. GAY Needle, 32.5 pilot, needle 1/2 step rich from 2nd groove from the top, 420 main and 1 turn out on air screw. I also modded the float bowl well to fill faster and the float level was critical. After getting it as good as I could I switched to a Lectron and the Lectron was better in every way. I got enough better mileage that I didn't need an over sized fuel tank. I spent at least $80 in jets and needles on the Mikuni which it now sitting on the shelf and not likely to go back on the bike unless I decide to sell it.
 
2premo said:
the biggest advantage of a Lectern over EFI is the EFI has electronics and a pump
Lectern has 2 moving parts, which do you plan to rely on
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I'll tell you what, my TE 511 has turned me off of EFI bikes. So unreliable and unpredictable. It's never just right and even with the huge investment in a powercommander and autotune, the flameout issue still rears it's ugly head on occasion -- always just when you need the bike to stay lit. My WR200 with lectron is just about as smooth as the 511, but never dies. I can always hop that log or step up without even thinking about a flameout. People say EFI is great because it gets rid of having to jet the bike. But in reality it just shifts the time and expense over to fiddling with flashes and fuel/timing controllers. For the cost of a EJK, Bazzaz, JD Tuner or PowerCommander you can buy a lifetime of jets.
 
Cosmokenney said:
I'll tell you what, my TE 511 has turned me off of EFI bikes. So unreliable and unpredictable. It's never just right and even with the huge investment in a powercommander and autotune, the flameout issue still rears it's ugly head on occasion -- always just when you need the bike to stay lit. My WR200 with lectron is just about as smooth as the 511, but never dies. I can always hop that log or step up without even thinking about a flameout. People say EFI is great because it gets rid of having to jet the bike. But in reality it just shifts the time and expense over to fiddling with flashes and fuel/timing controllers. For the cost of a EJK, Bazzaz, JD Tuner or PowerCommander you can buy a lifetime of jets.
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that was my point
and to your point the jetting, the beauty of the Lectern is it does not need to be jetted for altitude or temp due to it being a demand carb
 
I know efi is bad.
I know lectron is king. Of. The. Hill!

I also know $ 400+ on a carb as soon as you spend it you will wonder what took you so darn long!
The quality is there long after the price is forgotten.

An i paid extra £70 on import fees you guys have it easy. Mine was a £420 carb by the time i got it.
Not selling bike when it runs this well.
 
My 449 runs flawless with a PCV. Just goes to show that no 2 bikes off the same assembly line are the same, just like cars.
 
Actually, that's a very good point, Now that MotoSportz is no longer selling Lectrons where do we go for them, Particularly ones with the special needle for the 165??
 
The guys at Lectron are great. They know about these bikes and have the setup down pat. Kind of old school, so best to call and make a deal. If you bought a carb from Kelly they know it and are happy to help.
:cheers:
 
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