• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR300 Starting question.

jerbear610

jerbear610

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I kept the title pretty vague because of the knuckleheaded circumstance that has lead me
to pose the question. I washed the bike today and when I was through I went to start it up as I always do. Started first kick but sounded a little different. I then realized that I forgot to take my
little home-made exhaust plug out so I immediately pulled it out. I've done this once before but
that time the plug shot out as soon as I kicked it. I messed with the plug to make it a little more water tight so it was fairly snug in the silencer. The motor only ran for about about two or three
seconds before I realized the plug was still in. It seemed to run ok but I'm wondering what potential
damage could be done if the exhaust is plugged with the motor running ?
 
I've started my bike with the plug still in. I don't think 2-3 seconds will hurt anything; it didn't hurt my bike.
 
haha id be a rich man if i had a dollar for every time ive done this! wash bike, go to start it, WTF? oh yeah exhaust bung. dont think it hurts it, maybe foul plug when it snuffs out at worst.
 
The worst that can happen is it will try blow thru any leaky point it can before it chokes... Theses New 2st are pretty tight... Don't sweat it.....
 
My '11 wr 300 won't start w/the exhaust plug in. It will turn over a few times, but no go. I know. I've tried and tried and tried. Watch out for the abundance of blue smoke and spooge when it does fire after pulling the plug...sort of like starting a push lawn mower after tipping it over to remove that hidden chicken wire that wrapped around the blade.
 
ive done this quite a few times as well...why is my bike so quiet? oh yeah..doesnt really seem to affect much..
 
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