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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2009 TE610 idle screw

motopreserve

motopreserve

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hey folks. First post here, but I've been surfing/researching for quite a while. I know this may make some of you roll your eyes, but I need confirmation of the location for the idle screw. I've just picked up a 2009 TE610, brand new to husky, and currently waiting on a model/year specific manual from Halls (I downloaded the 2006 manual - but obviously not helpful on FI questions).

I just had the air box off to adjust the rear shock, and think ive located the idle screw - behind the air box??? Seems like I might be able to get a box wrench in behind the rear brake reservoir, but it would be tough. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Also, while I've got you here... What's the ideal idle speed? This bike is running at about 1700, which seems high to me, but I'm totally new to these types of bikes.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Scott
 
It is behind the airbox. You can get on it with a wrench from the front of the box.
I think 16-17 is about right.
 
Thanks so much! I was afraid that was the one :)

The frustrating thing is its a small size head, so typically my shortest wrenches. I'll figure it out, at least I now know I'm looking at the correct screw.

Appreciate your help.
 
Thanks. I need to grab a long 8mm (preferably with a bend) to get in there. Odd place to put an idle screw.

Appreciate all the help folks!
 
motopreserve said:
Thanks. I need to grab a long 8mm (preferably with a bend) to get in there. Odd place to put an idle screw.
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I agree. Plus not enough clearance to get a box ended wrench on it so you have to make small baby step turns to adjust it. And since you should only adjust idle when the bike is fully warmed up you're dealing with tight space near a hot engine.

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I think I may have a ratcheting open ended 8mm that may be long enough. Then I would just have to deal with extreme heat :)
 
motopreserve said:
Good call.
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There's a very informative article on one of the Husky sites about setting the idle too low in the FI/tuning sections.

Apparently, if the ECU registered Throttle Position Sensor electronic setting is above where you physically re-set the throttle body "butterfly plate" for a lower idle speed, when you open the throttle plate off idle you'll have a very lean situation for a second or two and experience the dreaded flatness or bog off idle some FI owners complain about.

The TPS setting can be mis-set at the factory or by the dealership at delivery setup attempting to "adjust" the idle without using a diagnostic tuner like Ibeat.

In fact the article references the use of Ibeat ......and an Ohm meter reading from the TPS connector to "see" the relationship of the physical butterfly position and the TPSensor "sensed" position.

Some riders simply resort to the power up shunt to "correct" this leaness trait, which does richen the off idle curve, when all they possibly needed to do was diagnose the butterfly/TPS relationship.

I am lucky to apparently have one of the well adjusted 08s. (sold by Ferracci in PA.)
Snappy right off of 1500 idle......no flatness anywhere.
 
ealdog said:
There's a very informative article on one of the Husky sites about setting the idle too low in the FI/tuning sections.

Apparently, if the ECU registered Throttle Position Sensor electronic setting is above where you physically re-set the throttle body "butterfly plate" for a lower idle speed, when you open the throttle plate off idle you'll have a very lean situation for a second or two and experience the dreaded flatness or bog off idle some FI owners complain about.

The TPS setting can be mis-set at the factory or by the dealership at delivery setup attempting to "adjust" the idle without using a diagnostic tuner like Ibeat.

In fact the article references the use of Ibeat ......and an Ohm meter reading from the TPS connector to "see" the relationship of the physical butterfly position and the TPSensor "sensed" position.

Some riders simply resort to the power up shunt to "correct" this leaness trait, which does richen the off idle curve, when all they possibly needed to do was diagnose the butterfly/TPS relationship.

I am lucky to apparently have one of the well adjusted 08s. (sold by Ferracci in PA.)
Snappy right off of 1500 idle......no flatness anywhere.
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Have a link to that article?
 
ealdog said:
It's actually in CafeHusky in the EFI/carb forums under:

"My DIY EFI fix" by bbcdan ......I believe....... with several pages of follow ups.

BarberPole .....formerly ealdog
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EDIT:

Actually, " My DIY EFI Tweak" by bbcmat Aug 6, 2009.......recently on pg 9 of EFI/carb forums
 
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