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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

+ Battery Cable

Gerald Vincent

Gerald Vincent

Husqvarna
AA Class
I cleaned my bike today, better than my normal "just hose it off". I pulled the seat, and was scrubbing the plastic with Mr. Clean magic eraser (which worked good). While I had the seat off I was inspecting everything, and saw some a tiny bit of verdigris on the end of the positive battery cable.

The more I looked, the more wrong it seemed. The cable looked to be 8 gauge, I would think the starter motor would need more amps. I bought this bike as a demo model, and have had trouble starting it since I had it, 6 months now. It always started, but always put up a fight.

I pulled up and looked at the pictures in the husky manual, and now only does my positive cable seem a smaller diameter than the picture, it is also definitely much shorter, maybe 3" long.

So my question is: Does anyone know the proper gauge wire for the positive terminal of the battery?

Thanks for your help.
 
Sorry, I forgot to mention my bike is a 2013 TE449. Also I went out and compared the terminal cable to some scrap cable I have, and it is 10 gauge, not 8. Thanks
 
Gerald Vincent said:
I cleaned my bike today, better than my normal "just hose it off". I pulled the seat, and was scrubbing the plastic with Mr. Clean magic eraser (which worked good). While I had the seat off I was inspecting everything, and saw some a tiny bit of verdigris on the end of the positive battery cable.

The more I looked, the more wrong it seemed. The cable looked to be 8 gauge, I would think the starter motor would need more amps. I bought this bike as a demo model, and have had trouble starting it since I had it, 6 months now. It always started, but always put up a fight.

I pulled up and looked at the pictures in the husky manual, and now only does my positive cable seem a smaller diameter than the picture, it is also definitely much shorter, maybe 3" long.

So my question is: Does anyone know the proper gauge wire for the positive terminal of the battery?

Thanks for your help.
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Here is an even better way to calculate http://www.bdbatteries.com/wirerules.php

Either one shows that 8 gauge would have no problem handling over 100 amps for the short period needed to start a motorcycle.
 
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