• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Kick Start Spring - Always replace during a rebuild!

Kevin Sorce

Kevin Sorce

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just thought I would pass this along. 2 years ago I rebuilt my WR 250, new rod, crank bearings, seals, etc. My kick starter worked fine so I never took the shaft apart when working on the inner parts of the motor. About a month ago it occasionally would drag when returning, sometimes sticking half way on the return.

The return spring is located deep inside with the gear box (thanks Cagiva!). Recently I went through my top end, but decided to split the cases to see whats up with the kick start. The spring end where it slides into the case was broken off, and it was jamming against the case, and also it was wound around the plastic bushing. The spring is a $3.50 part and the bushing $1.25.

The moral of the story - always replace this spring and bushing when you have the motor fully apart! Its cheap and may help prevent what happened to mine!
 
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