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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1987 WR250 clutch basket

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Reggie Quimby

Husqvarna
B Class
I just picked up this 87 wr250 and pulled side cover to find problem with kickstarter. Found a bad pawl and started checking other components. The clutch basket seems loose and wobbles. This does'nt seem right to me???
 
The basket is held on with a big nut and lock washer, and rides on a needle bearing that has a nylon cage. I would check both of them. You will have to take off the pressure plate (6 bolts) on the clutch to see the nut. The pressure plate only goes back on one way.

Check out the reference material in vintage left kickers, Vintage tech and parts. You can use the 86 2t shop manual. There are some differences main ones are 84-86 used a circlip instead of a nut to hold clutch basket and 5 bolts on P.plate instead of 6.

Where are the Pics?
Is it the one that was for sale up east? The gut had to pop start to get home?
 
In addition to what husky jim noted, do not leverage off any aluminum towers to bend the fold over washer. This goes for brand x as well. I have never seen one of those needle bearings bad but some bad mechanic procedures could make for a first. Hopefully that bearing pocket behind the clutch isn't the issue it is narrower than it really ought to be.
 
Thanks for the imformation,the bike is in fact the one here in the northeast with kickstarter problems.I will post some pictures in near future. The lateral end play on clutch shaft is .004 of an inch in both directions. The outer edges of clutch basket has lateral movement of .008 in each direction with new bearing. I need to find out if this is acceptable.
 
If I remember correctly, when I had my 88 250wr a part because the clutch pack was sticking (from sitting). I had to seperate the fiber plates from the steel plates. I don't remember the clutch pack having any up /down movement at all, maybe just a very slight movement in /out.
 
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