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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

250-500cc WR 300 Q's

I just noticed all 4 of my radiator bolts where loose on my 300. 5 minutes of checking bolts savex me potenitally a lot of greif.
 
good catch! OM says check 'em all before each ride. takes 5 mins with t-handles. esp sprocket, brake lever and kick lever bolts! (i do it after each ride) ever have yer rr brake or kick lever fall off? it sucks.
 
I just bought a big tube of blue loctite gel. After reading about the misc bolts on this machine, I will blue loctite them all as I go along and tinker around. I love 2 strokes and blue loctite is my friend:thumbsup:

I have ofg rad guards, jd kit for the pwk and rear brake sharkfin coming on the way! I bought paper gasket maker for the reed intake and will make a gasket for that when I pull the carb off too. I might try the throttle cable from my yz that the carb came off of. Sounds like stock ends up being a little long. Manageable, but...

I really appreciate all of the input fellas!! I am psyched to not only have FINALLY have a Husky, but it is my first new bike ever as well!!
 
Don't lock-tite the bolts that go into the nutserts. That includes the tank and the airbox. Use anti-seize on 'em.
 
Thanks. Hey quick question. What gearing are you guys running? Stock? I am mostly on singletrack and some desert. Lots of climbing on the singletrack in UT.
Again, sorry for all the q's, and thanks for all the input.
 
marcmo0;130947 said:
Thanks! I guess I will rip the carb off my '03 YZ250 and put it on the Husky. Easy enough. I just talked with the shop and they just fired it up for the first time and are putting the rest of the plastics on.
:cheers:
I hear you about premix brands. I see that Husky recommends 50:1. Anyone actually running 50:1? THat seems lean. I have seen some posts on here about 40:1 and 32:1. I typically go 40:1.
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I ran rich jetting and 32:1 for break in and use Maxiama K2 at 50:1 now, mind you I have a 5 gallon pail of it and refill my old ipone bottles with a mixing chamber on top so I don't have to use a Ratio rite
 
marcmo0;132164 said:
Thanks. Hey quick question. What gearing are you guys running? Stock? I am mostly on singletrack and some desert. Lots of climbing on the singletrack in UT.
Again, sorry for all the q's, and thanks for all the input.
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14/50 in the woods. 15/50 in the open.
50T is my permanent rear sprocket and I just swap fronts for the terrain.
 
FINALLY took it for its first ride today. Oh man, this bike is awesome! Gotta get the jetting dialed in, but... Fast and tons of torque. Stuff on the YZ that I would have been diggin a rut gettin up, just crawls right up, no wheel spin, didn't even have to clutch it! I'm in love!
Thanks to all of you guys for the input and helping me get it set up.
 
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