• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 My 99 WR 125 Build

jason380

jason380

Husqvarna
AA Class
It's been a while since I posted but I've been lurking and wrenching on the beater WR 125 I got. The $400 WR has been overhauled and now sports 2004 plastics. I did find that I will need the airbox (ordered) and radiators to complete the swap but for now it works with all but the side panels. I broke in the bike today and was impressed with how hard this little bike pulls. After a little bit (10 minutes of riding after the 3rd heat cycle) it became blubbery on the top then moreso in the mid as well then got to the point it would hardly run. I pulled the plug and it was black so it seems rich. The TMX carb is pretty shot with wear on the slide and who knows what else. It didn't even have the air screw when I got it and the hole was packed with dirt!! It's jetted 35P 400M and I'm unsure of the needle. I'm at about sea level and it was in the mid 60's today. I had the AS adjusted a little fat for the break-in but it still came on the pipe hard at first--and that's with the incorrect throttle cable the prior owner installed which is too long thus only giving about 3/4 throttle max. The reeds looked good when I had it apart but it acts like one may have broken or maybe the PV is not working correctly.
On another note the CR 250 shock I swapped in is either VERY stiff or something is binding. I get pretty much zero race sag and very little rider sag with my 200lbs on it. I have backed off the preload and it helped very little. I'll make another post regarding that problem but overall I think this will be a great practice bike and bike for the wife (if I don't steal it!!) once I get it fine tuned. Much of the bike is fresh now with little investment but a lot of time so I hope I can get it sorted.
Jason
 
I'm slowly getting this bike sorted. It's running pretty well and I think the blubbery running came from my No Toil filter oil. I noticed some oil coming out of the airbox so I pulled the filter and found that there was still some excessive oil along the edge of the filter. I cleaned the air boot, squeezed out the excess oil, and swapped the plug and the bike is now ripping on the mid-top. The carb is still spewing fuel despite checking the floats and float valve. There is some chrome coming off the slide as well so I'm contemplating a Keihin swap. I have a ton of jets and I'm comfortable tuning it as my 380 was a bear to jet before the head mod. Has anyone done the swap on the older WR 125?
I also had much improvement with taking some pressure off the bolts in the suspension. I need a new frame though as the mounts for the linkage on the frame have worn enough to cause play in the swingarm. It was like that when I got it because the bolt didn't even have a nut on it. I'll go ahead and get the suspension sprung and revalved and replace all the linkage and swingarm bearings so I'll be starting fresh with good parts. Next spring it should be like a new bike!
 
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