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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

3 kids and 5 years later...

Allen

Allen

Husqvarna
AA Class
I finally had my tr650 shipped up from TX to NJ. It has been about 4 years since it was ridden regularly. With probably about 10 starts and 15 minute rides sporadically, but not a single start in the past 2 years.

Battery is dead on arrival, charged up in a few hours and turns over fine but won't seem to start.

Battery is a LiFe about 7 years old. I will charge it overnight but that may be the first thing I replace.

Considering removing fuel, replacing spark plug etc, but thought I'd ask around if anyone has any advice on starting a bike that has been sitting for 2 years or a bit more.
 
Apart from battery charge I think mainly fresh fuel.
When starting, don't hold the starter button for long, say bursts of about 3-4 revolutions between 5-10 sec pauses. It will start!
 
Yea good idea. I don't know how old it is. I definitely was not riding far enough to be going through tanks of fuel often.
 
I think you were right!
 

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Still no start. I have maybe tried 50 turns of the engine. I imagine it takes some time for the new fuel to make its way up into the pump etc. but I am unsure. I am now wondering if I got enough fuel out (put 1.6 gallons in). I gravity siphoned off what I think was quite a bit. I am also now thinking about testing to make sure I have spark.
 
Allen said:
Still no start. I have maybe tried 50 turns of the engine. I imagine it takes some time for the new fuel to make its way up into the pump etc. but I am unsure. I am now wondering if I got enough fuel out (put 1.6 gallons in). I gravity siphoned off what I think was quite a bit. I am also now thinking about testing to make sure I have spark.
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Did you try a starting fluid? I would remove the air filter and spray a good amount of starting fluid into the air box. If it fires up it's a fuel problem. If not then it's a spark issue.
 
husky jim said:
Did you try a starting fluid? I would remove the air filter and spray a good amount of starting fluid into the air box. If it fires up it's a fuel problem. If not then it's a spark issue.
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Great idea. For some reason I forget about all the standard tricks when working on an efi bike...
 
That did it! Just ran it on starting fluid until it burned through the bad gasoline probably still in the hoses. Thanks for the help.
 
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