• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR125 to CR ignition mod - notes

TROFFER88 said:
I would be interested in what you think performance wise. I did the conversion and I dont think the difference is that dramatic
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rode a 2010 CR125 with 144 kit and FMF pipe back to back with my 09 WR125 with 144 kit and KX pipe and the difference was very small. Mine made more bottom, his reved slightly quicker (CR flywheel is a good bit lighter)
 
Hi All,

Thanks for the tips (yes, it is for my WR250), now just to find someone who sells a flywheel holder!

Thanks all!
 
chappo said:
Hi All,

I've picked up a CR250 ignition of eBay and want to install it this weekend, but can anyone tell me if the flywheel nut on the WR is a left hand thread?

What has everyone used to hold the flywheel while undoing the nut?

Thanks!!
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You can use a piston stop to hold the crank or a poor boy piston stop is a piece of cotton rope fed through the spark plug hole just be careful not to start with the piston down far enough let the rope get in to a port.
 
You dont need a holder to get it off, just the airgun with proper size socket. To tighten put it in a high gear with the brake on.
 
The KTM stuff worked fine, but the after-market stator quit after about 5-7 minutes of the first race out west. I put a genuine Husky stator in it, but it no longer had the lighting coil. We sold this bike a couple of months ago to get him a WR250. At that time we put the unused 125 cylinder back on it and the WR ignition. The remaining 150 seized at the end of he fist lap at the 4th race out west. I put the 150 off the sold bike onto this one and we still have it. I may even put the WR ignition back on so that my son can use it to go to work. That's the reason we kept this one, because it had the street license.

We got the 250 because the western races were brutal. 2 broken bikes were all we got out of it. Even though 150's are allowed, there is not chance they can compete. Pat was the only pro rider on a 150 and he had to kill it just finish the laps in the allotted time. They had times tests straight up a hill. Talk about unfair. Most horsepower won every time. As much fun as these little bikes are, they can't hold 9 minute hill climbs against a 250F. So now he rides a WR250

BTW, I did have a chance to test the KTM vs. Husky module. There was no difference in performance.
 
BillO said:
For all of you considering this mod, or have already done it, here are some notes from my effort for consideration/comment.

1) This is the correct flywheel puller for the WR. As much as I tried, I could not find the genuine Husky part, but found this one for $10 at: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370509877357&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

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It got the flywheel off in about 5 seconds.

2) I have also had no luck tracking down the timing tool, however after some careful measurements and observations on our previous CR and another, the following gives the correct timing. Use a dial gauge to ensure the piston is precisely at TDC. Then, as shown below, the dot on the flywheel, and the end of the trigger magnet should line up with the gap in the trigger pickup head. It would be great if someone else with a good running CR, or who did the timing using the Husky tool, could corroborate this.

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3) The manual indicates the correct torque for the flywheel nut is ~78Nm. This seems excessive. It this what everyone else has used?

I'll update this post after we test properly.
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Has this setting for timing been corroborated?
 
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