• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

125-200cc Broken reeds on WR144

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Tom

Husqvarna
A Class
My bike's been running a little off colour lately. Fouling plugs unless I've been right into it. On Sunday after lending it to my dad to ride some singletrack (slowly) I was cruising along the fireroad at 60km/h in 6th when the bike ran rough, massive bang (not really a backfire, I'm 90% sure it came out the exhaust not the carb) then died. I managed to get the bike to start and idle but anything more than 1% throttle it would die in the arse. Took carb and reeds off to find two petals broken.

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Now a few questions.

Would the plug fouling have been caused by a reed on the way out? Or did the lack of spark cause the 'backfire' and reed destruction. Or is it a bit of both. The bike started its plug fouling with no intervention from me btw.

As you can see in the photos there are some bits missing. Is it likely that they would have passed through the engine or are they likely to be stuck where they shouldn't be?
 
We had the same thing happen. The bike fouled a plug we replaced it about an hour later, big back fire and the bike would barely idle. The reeds had broken and were pushed back towards the air box, also the crank seal had pushed out of the case on the flywheel side. I never found what was the original source of the failure. Replaced the reeds and the crank seal has been ok since.
 
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