• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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2013 TC449

SteveJ

SteveJ

Husqvarna
AA Class
Presently I ride vintage Husky 2 strokes. Have been thinking I would like to try a late model 4 stroke. Been watching this machine on Craigslist near to me. The price has dropped from 4999.00 US dollars to 3799.00 which seems like a deal, if it is a good bike. Would like input from those of you who are familiar with these machines, what is good about them, what is bad. I am in my fifties and ride vintage MX, but we have classes for modern bikes which would be my intended use. Any input appreciated.
Steve
 
Pretty much stock according to the dealer, he believes it was not used very much. No extras, sending me more photos. When I say the bike is near to me, in the great southwest that means 200 miles :D, so I'll get all the info I can before considering a trip. Thanks for the input.
 
I'm in Farmington NM and have a TXC449. My buddy here has a TXC511. The TC449 is the same bike with more agressive cams and compression so it'll make good power. The TC449 has 5 gears instead of my 6.

The Good:
Stock spec (Brembo, KYB, Excel, Akro muffler)
Performance
Electric start
Reliability

The not so Good:
You need to be very creative to find engine and chassis parts. You'll depend on mail order completely living in NM.
The gear ratios are short, great for motocross, not so great for long open trails.
You'll need to buy a billet gas cap before too long

If I needed a motocross bike, I'd buy that one in a heart beat. Mine has been solid, dependable and has great performance.

If you buy it do the following:
Change the oil to mobil 1 0w40 full synth (walmart)
Consider an oil recovery bottle from zipty to allow full 1000ml oil fill.
grease the lower shock linkage bearing (need to remove bolt)
consider radiator shields
 
Full correct oil level is 1150ml not 1000ml, but yes, you will need a breather system to run that much at high rpm or it will blow oil into your air-filter.
 
I would absolutely jump on a tc449 if I could get it plated. Lighter than my 511 with a very well setup efi from the factory. All I need tbh.

Only complaint with my 511 is the weight and how much setup it took (power commander, reflash, exhaust, intake mods, breather)
 
Just the kind of info I need, thanks guys.
The bikes I currently ride (vintage) are strictly online parts only, so I'm accustomed to hunting down and ordering parts.
Short gearing on the tracks I ride would be appropriate.
Talked to the dealer again today, questioned the price being low. Seems that it is somewhat difficult to sell a Husky TC here, based on the comments above, makes sense. Says it was ridden, but not very much.
But I'm a Husky guy, dad bought me my first when I was 13, so if I buy a modern that's what I'll go with.
Let you know what happens.
Steve
 
SteveJ said:
Per the dealer, no hour meter. Haven't been able to get away to look at it yet.
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You can fit a Motominder brand hour meter.
I wired mine to the positive side of the fuel pump (at the relay plug) so it only counts when the engine runs.
It's not really posible to fit one of the wrap-around coil tip types.
You can then change the oil by hours, the oil works pretty hard in all modern 4 stroke bikes.
I'm doing mine every 5 hours & filters at 20hrs. (150 trouble free hrs so far)
 
Toytech in Grantville, Pa had a 2013 tc499 with 21 hours on it for $3200. I was up there about 2 weeks ago. Insane deal if you ask me.
 
Dangermouse449 said:
You can fit a Motominder brand hour meter.
I wired mine to the positive side of the fuel pump (at the relay plug) so it only counts when the engine runs.
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David, how do you connect this hour meter to fuel pump relay? Draw please. Need more info. I want to do same. :)
Is Motominder a ordinary counter, sense wire of which need to wound on a high-voltage wire???

I had GET vibration activated hour meter, but it do not work properly. It is not water resistant. :( Bad choice.
 

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Sounds like a great deal, if the dealer lowers the price on this one anymore, I may not have a choice as to buying it. :D
Now that Husqvarna is going to campaign a team in the 2015 SX and Pro MX, maybe the MX machines will gain more popularity.
 
Normann said:
David, how do you connect this hour meter to fuel pump relay? Draw please. Need more info. I want to do same. :)
Is Motominder a ordinary counter, sense wire of which need to wound on a high-voltage wire???

I had GET vibration activated hour meter, but it do not work properly. It is not water resistant. :( Bad choice.
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The Motominder is a 2 wire meter that will run off any power source.
I connected the red to the fuel pump positive from the relay and grounded the black.
Whenever the pump runs the meter counts.
 
Have the parts situation for these bikes come back yet? I rode a 449 and just loved it. They come up near me all the time for dirt cheap.
 
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