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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2013 TE250R

AlwynMike,
what did you do with the pickup wire to get the tacho to work?
I bought a TrailTech hour/tacho meter for my '14 TE310R and after spending hours & not being able to get it to work properly I gave up.

Ian
 
Dogs Breakfast said:
AlwynMike,
what did you do with the pickup wire to get the tacho to work?
I bought a TrailTech hour/tacho meter for my '14 TE310R and after spending hours & not being able to get it to work properly I gave up.

Ian
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Ian,

I had a few goes at it to get the optimum
Three or four turns round the plug top, lower down the plug cap worked OK, but it was very tight indeed, and I didn't like the way the sensor wire was pinched as it came through the gland.
I eventually just connected it to the signal wire to the plug top. Use the White/Red wire, as the Blue is Earth/Chassis. I seem to recall I had to change the settings on the Tacho, and I can't remember if it was to one spark per rev or not - you'll have to experiment with that one.

The downside to the Tacho is that the display is that good, it puts the Husky dashboard to shame!

Mike
 
husky dashboard has never been a strong point but hey, at warp speed,who has the balls to look ??? :D

I want an hour meter to work, oem unit has the function but doesn't work, why ? what's involved in making it work ?
 
rabskyline said:
husky dashboard has never been a strong point but hey, at warp speed,who has the balls to look ??? :D

I want an hour meter to work, oem unit has the function but doesn't work, why ? what's involved in making it work ?
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I can't get mine to work either! Thought mine was the only one, but now that you said it, how do you get it to work? Manual says push button for three seconds to start. But I could push it for three days and nothing!
 
Apparently.. the hour meter's don't function on any 2013 250/310's.

Aftermarket is the only option.
 
Mike,
Am I ready your post correctly - you wound the tacho wire around the spark plug wire BEFORE the rubber gland ?
I tried through the gland then around the spark plug wire but it was too tight & would not fit properly in the head. If yours works OK then I will buy another & try again.

Cheers
Ian
 
Dogs Breakfast said:
Mike,
Am I ready your post correctly - you wound the tacho wire around the spark plug wire BEFORE the rubber gland ?
I tried through the gland then around the spark plug wire but it was too tight & would not fit properly in the head. If yours works OK then I will buy another & try again.

Cheers
Ian
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Yes and no!

I started with the wire wrapped around the plug top, within the head - well down the cap.
As you said, it was very tight and I wasn't happy with it.

Ended up just connecting it directly to the thin signal wire at the plug where it connects to the plug cap. I should have tried that in the first place, but I didn't want to risk loading the circuit and getting a weaker spark. No problems so far though (1200 miles)

Connect to the White/Red wire, not the Blue one.

Mike
 
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