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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC 17 TE 150

wallybean said:
Darin,

You want to get the gasket that sets your deck to piston height at 0.00mm. Mine was spot on from the factory although I think it was the next step wider than yours. Regardless, RK Tek will create the head to your spec if you tell them what your X dimension is currently. I think that I would just have them re-create the same head as they sent me. My compression jumped ~25 PSI static pressure with their head which should be good for you too at near sea level. I would definitely talk to them before you order. My current compression is 167 psi as compared to 140 psi with the stocker. I have a very good quality tester that I have checked against very accurate pressure gauges.

My bike sounds great with the new head but I can't butt test it until we get a break in the snow. We've had more snow sitting on the Valley floor this year than we have had in quite a few years. Unfortunately the mountains are still below average and need a lot more. There is only about 3' of actual snow depth on top of the pass where we get our irrigation water from. It should be closer to 4'-5' for this time of year or at the least more water content.
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Thanx Walt! Sure I'll have more questions.......
 
Carb done.

Took it all apart then cleaned and polished the outside in inside.
 

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Man, I hope Husqvarna corporate sees this thread and uses your bike in an add. Maybe they'll throw you some $ to help recoup some build cost too.
 
Frame guards?

Acerbis yellow and white?

Or go with white tape with blue logo and short black stock guards?
 

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WHAT A GREAT THREAD******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** I love all the good info. As I was reading through it pretty much every question I could come up with was mentioned. Was glad to read about the chassis lubrication and anti-seize on the spoke nipples. Also glad to hear I probably won't need to re-spring it for my weight (190 with gear and not racing anymore).

Quick intro, raced qualifier series in the late 80's on an 86 kdx 200, man was the Trask Mountain Two Day a fun race, too bad it's gone now. Family happened and stopped racing, after the kids are gone I got the dirt itch again so I picked up an 06 DRZ for DS riding 10 years ago. Found myself riding more and more on the trails and after getting the DRZ working good with suspension work and pumper carb I realized the weight was just too much for this old man on the trails (it's a great low-cost do it all bike though). Remembering back to the good old days of a super light two stroke and thought about getting the KTM 200. Looked and found that was no longer being made and went to Gresham Power Sports last week of December to look at the orange 150 and ended up getting the TE 150 they had just received the day before. I haven't had much chance to ride it except on my back couple acres. From what I can tell THERE WILL BE NO REGRETS IN GETTING THE TE********************************************************************************!!! Such good power and did I mention light, light, light weight? I'll be glad when the snow is gone and I can get into the coast range for a real ride.

The engineering and quality parts is outstanding. Well, except maybe for the reeds/cage as I'm reading now.

I really envy you guys that have all that time to do all that stuff to your bikes. I started a company about 10 years ago and the tread mill there is running pretty fast these days. Good thing the payoff is there so I can spend money on toys like this.

And of course the obligatory pic - before hand guards and spark arrestor. Who makes a woods bike with out one of those these days? Still waiting for the skid plate which was on back order apparently.

Definitely looking forward to more posts in this thread as the season starts up again.

Noel
 

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LandofMotards said:
Not to side track but I haven't seen "sisneros" in forever. Drz must have some mods!
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Yeah I had him spring/valve my suspension and bought a FCR-MX from him before the whole Epic/SSW thing blew up. At that point I decided not to do any more motor mods as I realized I was never going to be able to deal with the extra weight on single track and started saving for the small 2T.

I did get the plastics, seat, and tank off the other night so I could get at the carb on the TE. 5 bolts hold the tank, 3 more to get the seat and sides off. I'm taking it real slow and looking at all the details of how everything fits as I go along as I'm not familiar with KTM/Husky designs. I hope to look in the carb, drop the PJ one size, check\set float height, and note needle/clip. Too busy at work, not enough quality time in the shop............
 

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