• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 TX 300

ripnriding

ripnriding

Husqvarna
AA Class
Was in my local shop to pick up a few items in prep for season. He gave me a needle for a TC 150 to install into the bike as it is jetted rich from factory. Well now....installed at upper clip height...let's see what happens.....it's like 5-10 degrees Celcius here right now. Was told to keep all other jetting stock.
 
Hey rippin curious to see how you make out. Picked up my tx yesterday. Too cold to ride but sounds pretty rough now. Dealer put in 40:1 for break in which not sure how that affects things.
 
just picked up a '17 TC250. stock jetting was very rich. leaned and dropped the needle and went to a lower pilot (supplied with bike) as well as 2 turns out on air screw. it was better but still too fat on the bottom. put in a jd jetting kit starting with their recommendation for the altitude range i ride. 100% improvement. still not as crisp as i would like rolling on throttle (0-1/8) at speed and in power band/rpm range but not where you really ride this things anyway so no real issue. i have a lot of range with clip options (half increments!) and one leaner needle so will test some options. but, their starting point is very rideable.

i have heard from some very good sources (ktm team mechanics) that the new KTM/HUSKY's are very sensitive to mixing ratio. manual recommends 60:1. i went with 50:1 mostly because 60:1 just sounded a bit lean to me (i've always mixed 40:1, old school!). will try 60:1 to see if that cleans things up a bit.

also, i have ordered the latest moto tassinari vforce4r reed cage. i have heard great things about how these reeds clean up the power delivery and specifically rolling on from closed throttle up in the rpm's.

all said, the jd kit hit the mark. money well spent. throw it in and let it eat!
 
jwdirt said:
Hey rippin curious to see how you make out. Picked up my tx yesterday. Too cold to ride but sounds pretty rough now. Dealer put in 40:1 for break in which not sure how that affects things.
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I fell ya. When I picked up mine, I got out before we got wacked with snow to just go through the gears.....tried to anyway.....and immediately felt the insane pull/power but it was gurggly as though running super rich. My incessant you tube and research pre purchase already flagged the jetting as an area to look into. My local shop in Brockville was on the case and was working with Husqvarna Canada on a resolution.

I have been buying some items every few weeks ie skid plate bash guards etc and last trip in he gave me a new needle. I put it in a few days ago and this certainly awoke the beast**************************************** I was so quick to put it in....I didn't record the needle number but was told that it was the same needle from a TC 150. I ran the remainder of the 3 month old gas/oil premix from break in just up and down my subdivision and completely noticed a difference...looking forward to warmer days. It was responsive to airscrew adjustments at idle and just above idle.....I think this may be the ticket...I'll get the needle number next time I pop in to the shop to grab the bullet proof rad guards and my plate ;) Also, I regularly You tube my rides....have been riding my trusty little '10 Husky CR 144 a few times to keep the energies at bay hahahhahaha
 
PS when discussing 2T by the book, ratio always refers to fuel. so 60:1 is rich (more fuel less oil), 32:1 is lean. (less fuel more oil). And yes the TX300 is jetted rich unless we live at sea level in antarctica!!
 
2.2 hrs on the hr meter and starting to "harness" the power. Well....harness maybe an little optimistic but am adapting to the different riding style...ride one gear taller and modulated throttle vs keeping it in the upper revs. On position 2 which is the tamer version and this beauty just rrrrrRIPS!! I am looking forward to getting some proper loops around an XC course vs the makeshift 1-2 k loop I have near me to dial in the suspension but super impressed with this thing. Decided to flick the switch near the end of my ride time today to just see the difference. Well now.......When I am on my "A-game" this will certainly be like being loaded into a new level to master. Right now....I'm toying with the idea of a G2 throttle tamer...

Suspension seems a little harsh but I put a taad more air in fork 9.8 bar and went with the "sport setting" setting on clickers. I just need to get another couple of hours on this rig to harness the arm pump...HA. One thing that is certainly in my mind.......I have whisky throttled the little 144 and was able to get away unharmed....but.....don't believe this will be the case now with this honey. More mental focus and certainly more respect of this power is warranted.

Jetting...I think it's dialed....leaving it alone.
 
I have G2 throttle on both my Huskys and love it. Subtle, but very effective at adding a degree of throttle control you can't really get any other way.
:cheers:
 
I was lucky enough to head south and put a few hundred km on my tx. Everything thing from double track to nasty hill climbs and tight single track. Bike is awesome you can lug it all day and then rev the snot out of it. Suspension is great I think it likes to be ridden aggressively, if you sit back it will bounce you all over. Smaller pilot and dropped the needle a clip still a little hesitation down low but I'll keep missing with that. First gear may be a little tall for the really tight stuff but at least you can use first gear. The xc-w I had before first thing I did was shift to second.
 
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