• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR clutch wont release

S

sabortooth

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Hoping for some insight.
This began when I replaced a broken kick start gear.
Got it all together and pulled the lever to shift and no clutch. Lever pull felt fine.
So I first figured I was missing the little ball bearing, so I pulled the clutch back apart. The bearing was there. I checked assembly procedure with the manual and everything was correct.
I pulled the lever while the cover was off and witnessed the plates being pushed apart. then buttoned it all back up and still no clutch. Then I tore it all back apart and sanded the steel plates and oiled them all and reassembled, still no clutch even though I can see the plates being pushed apart.
I'm at a loss.
 
Take the plates out and make sure the hub and basket move freely and smoothly, independently from one another. Then double check to see if there is an alignment mark (dot or arrow)on both the pressure plate and the hub. If these aren't lined up, the clutch won't work.
 
My appreciation, Madame Dirtdame.
That came out of left field to me and hopefully exactly what I needed to hear.
The manual says nothing about this even though its half as long as the Holy Bible.
The hub and basket moving independently may be an issue too. Not quite sure how to verify.
By the way, I noticed the Hodaka among your bikes, do you ride trials with it?
 
sabortooth said:
My appreciation, Madame Dirtdame.
That came out of left field to me and hopefully exactly what I needed to hear.
The manual says nothing about this even though its half as long as the Holy Bible.
The hub and basket moving independently may be an issue too. Not quite sure how to verify.
By the way, I noticed the Hodaka among your bikes, do you ride trials with it?
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The hub should spin freely with the plates out and should not be dragging the basket with it. Perhaps you have some washers misplaced.
I don't ride trials with the Super Rat. In fact, I don't ride anything with it, as it tossed a main bearing on the primary side, and is a shelved project right now, sitting in the front entryway of my house.
 
Follow up.
Today I went through the clutch for the 4th time. I looked for
for reasons the inner basket was not spinning independently. Turns out I had the mainshaft nut too tight.
Feel kinda stupid for letting this go on for a year.
 
I had my wr165 lowered professionally 1.5" by Langs Offroad. They internally limited the length with removable blocks so it is reversible. I am 165 lbs and have yet to need more than the 10.5" of travel I am left with. The bike does look a little weird....kinda like it is a playbike, not a proper enduro/xc bike. But having a 28"inseam, I couldn't start the bike or even snick it into gear without hanging onto a tree or standing on a downed log or rock
 
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