• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

09 TE 310 wont start.

ghte

ghte

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Bike has been sitting for about six weeks. Tried to fire her up and she would not do so.
I took the spark plug out and there is plenty of that. I have replaced the fuel and recharged the battery. After a lot of coughing and spluttering she did fire up. I kept her on trickle charge and today she would not even look like starting. Any ideas guys, what have I not thought of (before I have to capitulate and take her to the doctors).

I look forward to your thoughts.
 
the reason your bike isn't starting is because the temperature sensor isn't working anymore.
On the back of the barrel of the engine, on the left hand side of the bike, there is a brass sensor with a black electrical connector plugged into it. Go to your Husky dealer and tell them that the temp sensor isn't working and you need a new one, should be covered by warranty. It's a common problem with the 09 bikes, my 09 310 is on it's 4th sensor. When you get your new sensor unplug the electrical connector, unscrew the temp sensor, install new sensor and replace the electrical sensor and your bike should start straight away.
 
Thanks 310, did you get your bike from Byrners in Seaford? And who does your service.

Cheers mate.
 
My 09 TE450's on it's fourth water temp sensor too! Apparently they have realised there was a bad batch and sorted it out, but there have been some bad ones already in the spares system so we've been replacing dead ones with ones which have the same tendency to fail. Hopefully that should be coming to an end soon. If you have access to iBeat anywhere or you can get the bike (or just the sensor) to the dealer they can check it so see what temperature it's reading. I have iBeat and the cable now so I checked the last couple of failed ones myself.

Mine were usually stuck around 85C but the last one was jumping between 162C and -50C. When it was on -50C the FAIL warning came on as it knows that's probably not right, but when it was at 162C there was no FAIL warning though the fan was on all the time. On the earlier ones which stuck at around 85C there was no FAIL message and the fan wasn't running, as it thinks the engine's warm but not overheating. The main symptom was very difficult starting from cold as it thinks it's trying to start a "warm" engine. Once the engine was actually warm it started better and ran reasonably ok.

I found that if I leaned the bike over to the right and kept the radiator cap on, there was virtually no leakage from the hole after you take the sensor out to replace it so you probably won't even need to top up the radiator afterwards (I'd still be careful though just in case it does pour out of yours for some reason!).

Good luck - let's hope a new sensor fixes it. :thumbsup:
 
Good call on the temp sensor- I hope that's it. Mine has been good so far (cross fingers, knock on wood, chicken feet whatever it takes) I should order some spares....

If its the temp sensor- sounds like it is defaulting to hot- so UNPLUG the connector to it. From previous posts- it seems that if you unplug it when its failing (and the bike is cold) it will start like normal. Then once warmed up- in theory you could plug it back in and ride... But this should tell you something in terms of diagnosing if you don't have access to an Ibeat. If it works- order a couple spares I guess they cost about the same as a quality spark plug.
 
If you have a friendly dealer they might even find a spare sensor off an old engine FOC so you can carry it with you when you ride and you're ready for an instant change the next time it happens....

I never tried disconnecting mine to start it as I always got it started in the end anyway, but if it fails again while the engine's cold I will try that before I replace it just to see if it helps - good tip. I'd expect it to show a FAIL message while disconnected but that shouldn't prevent it starting.

Of course there is an element of risk riding when it's failed - if it's stuck at something like 85C and you overheat the bike the fan won't come on. Actually, ISTR someone suggesting that the fan comes on all the time if the sensor is disconnected, so I guess it might be better to do that if you're riding where an overheat is likely (so long as the battery doesn't go flat!). I wonder if there's an official view as to whether riding with it disconnected as a "get you home" measure would cause any serious problems? Probably no worse than having it reading wrong I'd guess.
 
ghte;105501 said:
Thanks 310, did you get your bike from Byrners in Seaford? And who does your service.

Cheers mate.
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Hi ghte, i got my bike from firstclass motorcycles in lilydale, the best dealer i've ever been too, they do my scheduled servicing with me doing oil and filter changes in between, gotta go i'm going riding :thumbsup:
 
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