• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Husqvarna Rescue Rebuild

the 87 has a lower seat height?!?!?! dang...i have my sag set up right and its still pretty high...and im even 6'1"...
 
wrx said:
please dont put that yamaha front fender on it. Acerbis NOST is still available and is what they came with fron the factory. just my 2 cents. good luck with it. shoulg be a fun build.
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No I won't be putting that Yamaha guard anywhere near the Husky!
It can be a spare for my YZ125G 1
 
ajcmbrown said:
Jon it appears that you have the wrong model caliper, unless you have the original?
Your bike should have the dual piston Brembo caliper but the one pictured looks like it's from a 1986 model.
Tony.
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Yeah you're right tony. The caliper is incorrect but it was there so I could st least have a front brake on the bike while I get more pressing things sorted. It actually has the wrong from end on the bike it's from a KTM it's got white power forks. I'd prefer to swap that for the original conventional forks
 
I think some of those models got upside down WP's...there is a bike on ebay au with usd w/p's or am I dreamin??
 
Jon I think the one on EBay is an '86, I believe the usd's were only offered on XC and CR models from 87 onward, however I could be corrected on this.
The link you provided is a Cagiva.
 
ajcmbrown said:
Jon I think the one on EBay is an '86, I believe the usd's were only offered on XC and CR models from 87 onward, however I could be corrected on this.
The link you provided is a Cagiva.
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the White Power (WP) forks were only "factory installed" on the CR models
but being a business and offering them in their catalog, they ended up on quite a few bikes
problem with them on a WR is the travel and length issue, if you leave the rear stock the front ends up being taller
dropping the forks, limiting the travel of them or replacing the rear shock with an XC,CR length brings it back to level
not sure what everyone does to handle this
 
2premo said:
the White Power (WP) forks were only "factory installed" on the CR models
but being a business and offering them in their catalog, they ended up on quite a few bikes
problem with them on a WR is the travel and length issue, if you leave the rear stock the front ends up being taller
dropping the forks, limiting the travel of them or replacing the rear shock with an XC,CR length brings it back to level
not sure what everyone does to handle this
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Thanks for the info 2Premo! I was totally unaware - i'd rather get the original forks and triple clamps for it - I have a front wheel and another set of KTM triple clamps I have no use for came with the bike
I'll put a post up and see if any of the forum member have some for sale. For now i'll persist with it - need to buy a new brake line. The brand new one purchased from pyramid parts leaks out of the box but I've had it for a while so no chance of returning it. It leaks at both ends where the hose meets the fitting for the banjo bolt.
 
Eurofreak said:
When the cylinder is too worn it can be Nikasiled and sized to a piston you provide. The bore will last a lot longer too.
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Thanks Eurofreak I think that will be a possible option. It's on the last oversize and still had some minor scoring that was deeper then the final bore specs but usable. It's difficult to get piston's for these 87 engines they are quiet a unique shape - non power valve version. I guess I could go nikasil find a NOS standard sized piston and use that set up.
 
Hey Guys - anyone know what these markings are inside the crank case & clutch cover? - they look engraved

Cheers Jon

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Engine during disassembly - lot's of dirt in the flywheel case.

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Shifting mech
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Carb was quiet dirty needed a good good clean
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Part # stamped on mikuni 38mm round slide
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1987 WR250 needle bearing little end piston part number wossner N1021

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the engraving seems to present on most of the aluminum clutch covers..some factory batch code etc..
sounds like the bike will be a done right!
 
Engine assembly all new bearings throughout

Complete crank rebuild - larger crank pin and bearing

Purchased a crank puller and had a left hand thread adapter machined up so I could attach to the flywheel side
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