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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2010 TC450 - won't start

-RinGo-

-RinGo-

Husqvarna
Hey all,

Let me start by saying that I am new to four strokes and would very much appreciate any help I can get on this topic.

I have put just under 30 hours on my 2010 TC450 and have had no problems up to this point. I am not however unable to start the bike.

The story goes like this:
- Took it for a ride on the weekend (Saturday) and all was going well. This was the first ride with the FMF Powercore 4 muffler fitted to the bike. I haven't changed the jetting as it was starting and seemed to be running fine.
- When I got home I washed the bike (as per usual) however I when I went to start it up post wash, I couldn't get her to fire.
- I thought that maybe the spark plug needed to be changed, so I have received one in and fitted it up - plug gap is 0.7mm (as per stated requirement in manual). Still not starting.

I haven't checked the valve clearances - mainly because I have never done it before and am not entirely sure that this is the issue. It wasn't getting any harder to start up to this point. It would always kick into life after 3-4 stabs.

What do you guys think the problem could be? Have I missed something?

Lynton
 
Further to this, I am thinking it might be an electrical issue. I discovered that I am not getting any spark. I have tried disconnecting the kill switch to see if this is the problem, but it still won't fire.

Does anybody have any clue as to what could be the issue?
 
Some have mentioned problems when getting water into the coil. I'd pull all the connections apart, spray them out with contact cleaner, let them dry and reconnect. I've also heard that the spark plug wire can disconnect from the boot quite easily. You might also check the other end of the spark plug wire where it connects to the coil...its just pushed on there. I zip tied mine because it was not very secure.
 
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