• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 revival 2016

Glad to hear you got it figured. To echo Justintendo's comment, bikes have sat for years over things MUCH simpler than that.
I ran my 400 WRX around the block a couple of times today (had just sorted a couple minor things, also keeping it fresh and moving the oil around a bit before changing, and building relationships with my neighbors). It's an awesome feeling, especially on a bike that you bought from someone who thought it would never run again!
 
A couple of update photos, it's not quite finished but I have an event coming up next weekend and the following weekend so this will have to do for now.
Many thanks to Jon Hicks for the pipes, I should be able to build one nice pipe from mine and a donor pipe, that's a job I'll get to after these events.

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Hahaha, I was just demonstrating how much use this bike gets, I normally take two or more bikes but this one always makes an appearance and is always ridden the most.
Our Vinduro tracks are tight single track, not ideally suited to big bores, but this bike works great in those conditions.
 
Hi Guys,
I have been busy doing other stuff but I eventually received the 1988 WR 250 from ""Greg Premo"on this site and it is a great bike....... Just in the process of doing a restore as well.

Out of interest, clutch actuator lever movement on case how much slack should they have.
What gearing mine are you running ? mine is 12 - 48.
Great sounding bike.
Issues though with replacement pistons and rings.

just sorting springs at the moment.
 
Down Under XC said:
Hi Guys,
I have been busy doing other stuff but I eventually received the 1988 WR 250 from ""Greg Premo"on this site and it is a great bike....... Just in the process of doing a restore as well.

Out of interest, clutch actuator lever movement on case how much slack should they have.
What gearing mine are you running ? mine is 12 - 48.
Great sounding bike.
Issues though with replacement pistons and rings.

just sorting springs at the moment.
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Regarding clutch adjustment, I tighten the adjuster on the pressure plate until there is zero clearance, then back it off one turn, just guessing but I would estimate 3-5mm at the arm.

Gearing on my 88 is 13-53 and works great.

Wossner do a piston that only requires a very small mod, not expensive either. It is a standard 240 piston that I have listed on here previously. This one is 1.00mm oversize.

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