• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Check engine light on

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Terra35

Husqvarna
I took my first ride on my new TR650 Terra & with less then 20 miles the check engine light came on,i pulled over & when stopped in neutral it went out,started going again & light came on,anyone else have this happen? Seems to run fine,but still concerned.
 
I don't believe there is any way of knowing why the engine light is coming on without being hooked up to a Moss tool.:thinking:
 
Terra35 said:
I took my first ride on my new TR650 Terra & with less then 20 miles the check engine light came on,i pulled over & when stopped in neutral it went out,started going again & light came on,anyone else have this happen? Seems to run fine,but still concerned.
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Take it back to the dealer and get them to hook it up to the Moss. The errors should be logged so the Moss should be able to diagnose what the issue is.
 
Found my problem,bike would not start today,checked battery & both cables were loose.Retightened with a couple L/washers & fired right up,went for a ride & no more check engine light coming on
 
Terra35 said:
Found my problem,bike would not start today,checked battery & both cables were loose.Retightened with a couple L/washers & fired right up,went for a ride & no more check engine light coming on
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Thanks for letting us know :cheers:
 
Terra35 said:
Found my problem,bike would not start today,checked battery & both cables were loose.
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A poor predelivery inspection by the dealer. Mine had incorrect coolant & oil levels which I checked after the first ride home. They should have a checklist they go through before sale as it gives the customer peace of mind. It wouldn't take any more than one hour to complete.
 
AUS_TR650 said:
A poor predelivery inspection by the dealer. Mine had incorrect coolant & oil levels which I checked after the first ride home. They should have a checklist they go through before sale as it gives the customer peace of mind. It wouldn't take any more than one hour to complete.
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I suffered a lack of coolant in the radiator issue as well, and others both here in Australia and I think overseas have reported similar issues. I would not be surprised if there was inadequate pre-delivery training given. I reckon there's a step in the process which some dealers might be missing out when they fill the radiators. Mine was 300ml low and that is enough to cause the thermostat to stop operating correctly.
 
Hey Nev, check your raditor level when cold (it's a bitch to remove the cap:mad:). Mine was constantly low. I used the cap from my KLX and it's all good. The vacuum valve in the TR cap doesn't seem to let coolant transfer from the overflow tank to radiator when the engine cools down.
 
AUS_TR650 said:
...the TR cap doesn't seem to let coolant transfer from the overflow tank to radiator when the engine cools down.
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Which is how it is supposed to work, at least that is how it works on every vehicle I've ever owned.

Right?
 
Terra35 said:
Found my problem,bike would not start today,checked battery & both cables were loose.Retightened with a couple L/washers & fired right up,went for a ride & no more check engine light coming on
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Make sure when you get you 1000KM/600m check up they clear all codes for ya with the Moss.:thumbsup:
 
Coffee said:
Which is how it is supposed to work, at least that is how it works on every vehicle I've ever owned. Right?
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Not quite... As the coolant heats up it expands unseats the radiator cap & discharges into the recovery tank (strong spring in cap). When the engine is shutdown and cools down, the coolant contracts. The vacuum valve in the centre of the cap opens drawing back coolant into the engine/radiator preventing the entry of air.
 
Hey Aus_Tr650. ..you said you replaced your cap with a KLX.. what one? Just bought my 13 Tr650 Strada, has less than 300 miles and the dealership has already replaced the radiator, the cap and the temp control sensor. All of which they took off another Strada. Im just about to say forget it...but I really love this bike
 
Sorry about the late reply. Pressure rating is the same although the vacuum valve in the middle of the cap has less tension than the Husky cap. I think this assists with keeping the radiator full of coolant during cool down.
What is the problem for the dealer to change all those items? Seems to be chucking a lot at it...
A good YouTube clip explaining cap operation -
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JdDWWoX-70
 
AUS_TR650 said:
Hey Nev, check your raditor level when cold (it's a bitch to remove the cap:mad:). Mine was constantly low. I used the cap from my KLX and it's all good. The vacuum valve in the TR cap doesn't seem to let coolant transfer from the overflow tank to radiator when the engine cools down.
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I assume its the cap from the 2008 KLX 250s listed on your profile...right.....
 
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