TE 250/310 xlite starter issues...

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I really love this Forum! Thank you very much, I shot him an e-mail because it specifies 07-10 does anyone know if this will work with the 12' model?

Thanks!

No problem. I'd get a definitive answer from Semco (he's on this forum so he may answer here as well), but they're all Mikuni, so I wouldn't see why not.

Spoke with the dealer today and they feel it's the starter on my bike. Now lets just hope that they will cover it under warranty. When the bike failed it was under warranty but by I was a just about 1000 miles from the dealer. By the time I got the bike to them it was out of warranty. Anyone have any experience with husky warranties?

Is there any chance that stuck flywheel gear kept your bike from starting? I think mine is possessed too

I spoke with my dealer again today. They are installing a new starter, a new flywheel, and a new reduction gear. I hope this fixes it.

What were your symptoms? My freewheel gear is stuck to the flywheel and I can not make it run. Cranks fine but won't start.

So after talking with the dealer I am not exactly sure that Husky really know's what is wrong with these bike's either. They are going to warranty every part in the starting drive train except the battery. They are going to replace the starter, worm gear, flywheel, reduction gear, and a few other things I don't remember off the top of my head. Dealer say's it's about $700 in parts all total. I am very great full they are covering it but disappointed they aren't cover labor or the battery. Not sure that the reasoning is but I am not complaining since technically the bike is no longer under warranty but it was when this all happened. What is scary is that it sound like they are tossing the kitchen sink at fixing the problem instead of actually figure out what is going on.

I think I know what your talking about, the ring gear is stuck to the the flywheel? I had that happen and it was pain prying the two apart and when it was stuck together the e-start motor would not disengage from the crank, I would not want this to happen on the trail cause you can't ride like this and you can't repair this problem on the trail either.

Hey Tessier glad to hear Husky doing something.I've got my new shims to put in this weekend, keeping my fingers crossed.
Still waiting for a reply from Husky.

So what causes these things to get stuck together? Railway, did you reassemble with the parts?

I examined the two parts (nothing looked out of place) and can not figure out what cause the ring gear to get stuck to the flywheel, without knowing what cause this I'm worried this will happen again out on the trail and I'll be stuck.
And like I said earlier I had to use a lot of force to separate the pieces.

I just changed out the shim on the ADC side to get .005 valve clearance and it doesn't turn over any better so It looks like I got to replace the starter.
Does anybody know if there are after market starters available for the x-lite? If not I'm stuck buying an overpriced Husky one.

I freed mine by using a brass punch and a hammer to spin the gear backwards. It's a 2 person job unless you make a jig to hold the flywheel(I held it on the bench while my father gave it a few wacks). Mine had some fine metal flakes in the clutch mechanism, dad says it doesn't take much to jamb that style clutch. Gonna clean and oil it and see what happens.

I looked around when mine went south and couldn't find one. I was going to send my crapped out one to Stockers Starters to see if they could come up with something, but I guess I never actually did it.

Dad is correct. This is a simple sprag clutch with oblong rollers under tension by a little spring...any bit of whatever can cock it and lock it.

Make sure the spring that holds it together is not cocked or otherwise damaged. I may have a spare in my parts box.

Everything looked fine, I cleaned it nice, oiled it up good and put it back together. And...upon closer inspection I discovered a cracked flywheel key.

You bet baby! More than likely the flywheel cocked a touch on the crank and locked the sprag up.

Both x-light motors I took apart had a sheared or a shearing flywheel key. The old motors have the starter clutch splined to the crank for no worries but the x-lights have a ring gear and sprag on the back of a 2-stroke sized flywheel. These motors have 12/1 compression and that's a lot for a small morse taper and woodruff key.

On my bike I took a new flywheel lapped it to the crank just a touch with valve compound and checked it with Prussian Blue to make sure it was mating good then put a little loctite retaining compund on it and torqued it to spec. I will need heat to break it loose but it has been a couple hundred miles and the starter is working perfectly......so far.

It has been 4 or 5 times a motorcycle mechanic and no one I solved the problem even in representative HUSQVARNA ...
my engine does not work only hot start, but not yet checked the part of the tree of can and decompressor, if not that I do not know what else to do

OK, when you say a sheared flywheel key, what exactly do you mean? Is it broken? Is the top lopped off? Is it rounded off?

General question.

Are you able to start these with the kickstart?

If so, I've been told the ADC spring is the issue. .... not that there couldn't be other issues from working against so much compression.