• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

1972 wr250 stuck in 5th gear

rob kelly

rob kelly

Husqvarna
AA Class
I think I know the answer to this but just posting in the hope there's a simple fix.
I had the engine rebuilt on my wr250 and after some confusion on my part with the carb I have it running nicely.

There is another issue now that has become apparent, I clicked the shifter up 4 and now it won't click back down, the gear lever moves down but doesn't engage on anything to take it back down through the gears.
Any ideas before I split the case and look inside?
 
If this is a new rebuild, sometimes there is not enough lube on the all the trans parts to let them move freely. Just a shot in the dark, did you try to push the bike forwards and backwards with it in gear to see if it will free it up?

Marty
 
Hi Marty.
Yes fresh rebuild and yes tried pushing it back and forth, kicking it over and trying to change gear.
I had a modern-ish gearbox oil in it that's a bit thinner than it should be, would that make any difference?
 
Thanks for the response. I can't see anything untoward with the clutch cover off.

Looks like it's going get a bit more intrusive.
 
Yes, removing the clutch cover only exposes the slot for the shift lever to engage, not the actual selector mechanism.
Having just been through this exact scenario on a 72 250WR, I split the cases and followed the instructions in the workshop manual shown above and can now select all gears up and down, but haven't had it running yet.

Update: now running and shifting like it should, only to discover that it has the wrong piston fitted, a post 74 from my research, which does not reach the top of the cylinder, around 5mm short, causing very low compression.
 
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