• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Wait, so engines aren't supposed to compress water?

Just to recap, I just got the bike back together this weekend and rode it about 5 miles around the block. I did not end up splitting the cases as I the rod had no discernible play or bends. Piston was fine as well. Ended up using a liberal amount of 2T oil in the bottom end and putting everything back together. After setting the squish depth, everything went back together fine. No issues and it started up 3rd kick. Still has the same great power as before!

What Walt (and I) concluded was the head was machined so much, that the small amount of material left collapsed before any other damage was done. Guess I got lucky!

Just wanted to say huge thanks to Walt for helping me getting it back up and running. He has provided invaluable support/info on these motors/bikes. Thank you.
 
Bens head had already been heavily milled before we ever started on the big bore conversion. So when the chamber was machined for the extra volume on top of that the head material was really thin. Worked as long as it wasn't compressing something that can't be compressed. Probably saved the rest of the motor as it gave in immediately relieving the pressure. Still had to be a severe shock to the rest of the crank and top end:eek:.
 
I bet anything from normal running temps to cold river water is a shock. Lol
Good job it was well machined then.
 
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