• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR360 rebuild...

fatboycrash

fatboycrash

Husqvarna
AA Class
Gudday...
Just need to pick the collective knowledge base for some info please?
I 'popped' the top off the 2000 model wr360 yesterday for a look.... It's running fine but a little noisy, so I thought I'd look.
Hopefully the following pics will be OK for diagnosis... Is the nikasil bore stuffed?? It's a 'B' piston in there... What do I do? Stick a new B piston in or get the cylinder repaired and sized to suit?? That'd be EXPENSIVE like nearly 1000 bucks AUD.... It seems to me there is an infinite amount of size variations with piston, wrist pin and con rod.. What's everyone else do?? There are no scores or anything in the bore but it's def. looking used...

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Regards
FBC
 
What oil are you using? I replaced the piston and rings last winter and it was the original piston. It was almost in specs and I had none of the wear or carbon build up that I see in yours.

I would measure the piston for tolerance in the cylinder. If it is fine re-ring it and change oils to a full synthetic. It doesn't appear that you have any huge grooves in the coating and the minor wear lines aren't really a problem as long as you have a good set of rings. I use Amsoil Intercepter in my 360 and it is showing absolutely no wear marks in the cylinder and runs very clean with no power valve sticking. I ran mine with no coolant for many miles(oops) and had no metal transfer or grooving in the cylinder. I didn't even need to ring it afterwards. If you are seeing excessive wear on the piston you can always opt for a "c" or "d" piston depending on the measurements of your cylinder. Of course having your cylinder re-coated to stock specs is the safe way to go but very spendy considering there are no cheap pistons available for the 360.

Walt
 
I had to replate my cylinder to get it where I was happy with it.

I ordered the 'A' piston and had it plated to suit. I am very pleased with the results but it wasn't cheap. Hopefully now as it wears I can adjust clearance with slightly larger pistons.

The Husky (Wossner) piston although expensive, it is a very nice part.
 
Hey Walt!

I use Castrol TTS. Amsoil is not readily available in Australia but I will take your advice and switch to a full synthetic. I guess your right, I should just pull the barrel (jug) and measure up.... Sounds like a Friday night with friends job... :-)
Thanks
Shannon

wallybean;59462 said:
What oil are you using? I replaced the piston and rings last winter and it was the original piston. It was almost in specs and I had none of the wear or carbon build up that I see in yours.

I would measure the piston for tolerance in the cylinder. If it is fine re-ring it and change oils to a full synthetic. It doesn't appear that you have any huge grooves in the coating and the minor wear lines aren't really a problem as long as you have a good set of rings. I use Amsoil Intercepter in my 360 and it is showing absolutely no wear marks in the cylinder and runs very clean with no power valve sticking. I ran mine with no coolant for many miles(oops) and had no metal transfer or grooving in the cylinder. I didn't even need to ring it afterwards. If you are seeing excessive wear on the piston you can always opt for a "c" or "d" piston depending on the measurements of your cylinder. Of course having your cylinder re-coated to stock specs is the safe way to go but very spendy considering there are no cheap pistons available for the 360.

Walt
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Yeah.... :-)
I've gotta decide if a 1000 dollar repair is justifiable on a 2000 dollar motorcycle!!!:thumbsup:


gem;59485 said:
I had to replate my cylinder to get it where I was happy with it.

I ordered the 'A' piston and had it plated to suit. I am very pleased with the results but it wasn't cheap. Hopefully now as it wears I can adjust clearance with slightly larger pistons.

The Husky (Wossner) piston although expensive, it is a very nice part.
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fatboycrash;59697 said:
Hey Walt!

I use Castrol TTS. Amsoil is not readily available in Australia but I will take your advice and switch to a full synthetic.
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Hi there!
Great choice, the 360 :thumbsup: Castrol TTS Power is a fully synthetic, and in my opinion, one of the best 2stroke oil around. API TC+; JASO FD; ISOL-EGD. I'd say your soot problem comes from something else.

About the con rod small end colour with various cage selection, as far as I know, most dealers* sell the standard 18x22x22(mm) cage. I've had no problems using that size (been riding 360 since 1996).

*in Sweden
 
Skyldig;59758 said:
Hi there!
Great choice, the 360 :thumbsup: Castrol TTS Power is a fully synthetic, and in my opinion, one of the best 2stroke oil around. API TC+; JASO FD; ISOL-EGD. I'd say your soot problem comes from something else.

About the con rod small end colour with various cage selection, as far as I know, most dealers* sell the standard 18x22x22(mm) cage. I've had no problems using that size (been riding 360 since 1996).

*in Sweden
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Gudday!
Thanks mate. I've always used Castrol products in my bikes, except for the air filter oil which doesn't seem to stick too well. Thanks for the tip on cage selection, I'll do that. At least 9 different variations you can choose!! :D
 
fatboycrash;59700 said:
Yeah.... :-)
I've gotta decide if a 1000 dollar repair is justifiable on a 2000 dollar motorcycle!!!:thumbsup:
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I didn't look at it that way. I viewed it as spending money on a bike I can't buy new anymore!
 
In case you have the owners manual, here is some extra stuff from the service manual that might come in hand. Do note, that if you aim to order a Wössner piston, they don't use the same terminology. Husqvarna calls them A/B, C/D, E/F and Wössner A, B, C, 050.

This sometimes cause confusion, I ordered a "C/D" piston to my MY1996 and got a Wössner 8076DC which is 77.96mm! :doh: Fortunately, my MY1999 has a "E" which means the 8076DC is a perfect match!

Check out the pictures and the Wössner catalog and you'll see what I mean.

http://www.woessner-kolben.de/english/katalog/husqvarna.pdf







 
Fatboycrash,

Even if your piston has some scuffing, if it is within tolerances that are illustrated by Skyldig, just make sure the skirts are smooth, pop some new rings on it and go ride. Just use some 600 wet and dry and smooth out any ridges on the piston with very light pressure. If they are only grooved in then just lightly remove any sharp edges on the grooves and go. The tollerance of the skirt to the cylinder is the key gap with the top piston gap next. You just don't want that 2 lb wad of metal developing any side to side slapping motion.

Ps. Athena makes replacement pistons for the 360 and while slightly less money are not same quality as the Wossner piston.

Good luck,
Walt
 
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