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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

570 difficult to start

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amvs

Husqvarna
C Class
Hi guys, I've got a 2004 SM570R and wonder if it has a problem? It has always been a difficult bike to start - the previous owner told me to leave the decompression lever alone (doesn't seem to work anyway) and to follow this procedure:

1. flick the small black lever under the carb to the "down" position
2. gently kick the bike over a couple of times with no throttle until it "farts" a bit or kicks back slightly
3. Then flick the black lever off and kick it harder - usually it will start like this on the second or third kick

Last night I met an ex Husky 410 owner who said that if the bike is hard to start and backfires at all then it means the timing chain is about to go :confused: Now, obviously I'm a bit worried that there's something wrong with the bike. I don't know any other Husky owners and there isn't a dealer near me to ask so I'm really pleased to find this forum. Can anyone offer me any advice?

I'd always thought the bike was hard to start due to its race origins. Now I'm not so sure - is there anything I can do to fix it/make it better?

PS it doesn't idle particularly well either, somtimes running a fast idle speed which then drops to very slow and/or stalls. Is this an air leak, or a symptom of some other problem?
 
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