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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1988 WR250 PISTON DILEMA

troy deck said:
halls is in Springfield Ill never herd of Stahls
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Stahls claim to fame was rebuilding early Husky engines that ran and held up well
they come up in discussions about mag motors, guess those were tough to get right, don't actually know as I never owned one
 
Yes it is Halls, I realized the mistake after posting. Talked to them today and they did not have a piston. Come to find out though I have a 66.50 single ring piston. The motor came with a 66.50 double ring from factory. Bringing it to my local shop where they will take measurements and find a piston that will work and bore it to match. Hope this gets me going so I can take it out on the ice. Just found a set of studded ice tires that will fit my rims on Ebay. Having withdrawals due to two feet of snow and 10 degree temps up here.

In response to they don't rule anymore I really was talking about the pre-power valve two stroke experiance. Older Huskies always seemed to have a better low end torque then say a YZ or CR which was better in the woods but still had an explosive thrill when the power band kicked in. I would say that now KTM bought Husky outright and are ending the Husaberg line to focus on just KTM and Husky that yes they may rule again. I hate to say this on a Husky site but I have had three KTM EXC 300's over the past several years and feel they are the best bike for the Northeast tight rock and root single track I spend most of my time riding on. The new Husky TE300 look's like a winner and with the classic rear linkage suspension it may give a smoother ride in the woods then the EXC or SX. I may just have to trade in the 08 EXC in the spring.
 
woodsguy said:
Bringing it to my local shop where they will take measurements and find a piston that will work and bore it to match. Hope this gets me going so I can take it out on the ice. Just found a set of studded ice tires that will fit my rims on Ebay. Having withdrawals due to two feet of snow and 10 degree temps up here.
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Generally at least the way I understand it is one takes a piece of street bike tire and puts it inside the knobby tire and uses screws to go ice racing. The spikes are not for that application. You probably know this stuff already. Ice racing where the piston gets hot and the cylinder cold is an ideal enviroment for seizure if the engine is fresh or not bored to the correct size for the application. I guess you didn't use the term racing.
 
woodsguy said:
In response to they don't rule anymore I really was talking about the pre-power valve two stroke experiance. Older Huskies always seemed to have a better low end torque then say a YZ or CR which was better in the woods but still had an explosive thrill when the power band kicked in. I would say that now KTM bought Husky outright and are ending the Husaberg line to focus on just KTM and Husky that yes they may rule again. I hate to say this on a Husky site but I have had three KTM EXC 300's over the past several years and feel they are the best bike for the Northeast tight rock and root single track I spend most of my time riding on. The new Husky TE300 look's like a winner and with the classic rear linkage suspension it may give a smoother ride in the woods then the EXC or SX. I may just have to trade in the 08 EXC in the spring.
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Do you know anyone with a 84/85/86/87 Wr400?
If so ask them for a ride and get back to us on the best woods bike bit.;)
Cheers.
 
I have a few 86 400s motors and a 430, and last year i put a 250 motor in my bush bike mid season and its so much better in the woods.
Way less vibes with a smaller motor which makes it easy to ride all day long. Power wise not a problem, never have to ring it out to pull up hills still has a lot of torque.
I had fun with the 400 but the 250 makes more than enough power to keep me ahead of the 4 stroke KTM lumps my friends ride.
 
halls is in Springfield Ill never herd of Stahls

Forest Stahl is the king of Husky Engines repair & parts, he's a walking encyclopedia on Huskys
 
Yup, Halls actually recommended me to call Stahl's about info on nikasil plating on a old husky cyl. Sounds like a nice guy and he knows what he's talking about.
 
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