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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

87 WR 250 WON'T START

There is clearly an issue that caused it to stop and has continued to hassle you. you need to think carefully about what could have happened on the ride.

a bad earth, loose wire..failed secondary coil? something is affecting the running up to half throttle. checked air filter? nothing blocking the airway? what about the reeds, all ok? haven't lost a jet in the carb? ...just throwing stuff out now as all the obvious things covered.

good luck
 
Check for a cracked reed valve. My 83 250WR did this to me at a race. Never did find the piece that was missing off of the reed petals.
 
endurokids beat me to it pull starting and broken reeds have been very close together for me. If you can put the piston at bottom snake a tube down into the transfers and blow compressed air before resorting to pulling.

Amusing reading what different folks have for ignitions. I figure if the tech data calls out 70 watts it is sem, 35 or so motoplat mini 6.
 
This may sound stupid but my 87 xc did something like this too. One time it would start and the next time it would not ? It turned out that the spark plug boot would turn a little between rides causing the spark plug wire to ground out on frame or radiator , so I ziptied it so it cant move around and now it starts everytime. P.S. If it dont start on 3 to 5 kicks it's not going to start, so dont waste your energy. Hope this helps .
 
84scrambler said:
This may sound stupid but my 87 xc did something like this too. One time it would start and the next time it would not ? It turned out that the spark plug boot would turn a little between rides causing the spark plug wire to ground out on frame or radiator , so I ziptied it so it cant move around and now it starts everytime. P.S. If it dont start on 3 to 5 kicks it's not going to start, so dont waste your energy. Hope this helps .
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I second 84scarmbler's thought... that if it don't start in 3-5 kicks, don't waste your time trying. I learned that the hard way, kick, kick, kick, nothing. I now pull the plug, shut the fuel off, kick it over a few times to clear the fuel out, turn the fuel on, then put in a clean plug back in. Starts every time after this procedure. I'm just back from riding my 87 430 WR today so I got a refresher course.

Both my 87 and 88 430s need the right starting procedure to start. You learn to feel where the piston is near TDC at the top of your kickstarter stroke. Easy to flood, otherwise. Probably not so bad with a 250.
 
the 80s 250s start super easy...nice long kickers...long as you dont have the earlier bull-horn kick lever....i hate those things
 
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