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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

bike starts in neutral, dies when put into gear

K

Kurt Cabrera

Husqvarna
C Class
my dad and I both have TR650 Stradas, he replaced his wheel bearings in the rear after they failed, and after putting the bike back together, it started acting up. Now, the bike starts when in neutral, idles with the kick stand up or down, but immediately dies when the bike goes into gear no matter what the orientation of the kickstand is. Also to add onto this, the check engine light comes on when the kickstand is up, but when put down, the light turns off. Any insight on this occurrence would be much appreciated. Thanks.

-Kurt
 
I'd put all my money on the kickstand safety switch.
The bike will run in neutral no matter where the kickstand is, but may throw fault codes if something is funny with the electrical.
The bike will not run in gear if it thinks the kickstand is down. My bet is that there's either a short or the switch is stuck in the down position regardless of where the stand actually is.

I believe it was somewhere on this forum that a user posted that a 10A fuse slots right into the sidestand switch and essentially eliminates its use. Could help in your case.

Either way, that's likely where your problem is.
 
Thanks a whole lot, I appreciate the response. I'm going to relay the message over to him and see if this will take care of it.
 
Agree bypass the kickstand switch temporarly to see if thats the issue, keep it disconnected or fix it your choice.
 
If you take kickstand off please be careful with the bolt . It is a little odd and easy to damage...very easy. Dont ask me how i know..
 
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