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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Clutch switch bypass

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Al Barkley

Husqvarna
I picked up a 2013 TR650 recently and it appears to be pretty well sorted. One issue I have found is the clutch switch seems to have failed. The bike will only start in Neutral. I haven't looked at the switch or wiring at all yet so not sure if the switch is NC or NO or if there is anything more going on with it I should be aware of before I delete it...
I thought I'd ask here first to see if there is a commonly used method for disabling/removing the clutch switch? I know it's a safety feature but I don't need it or want it.

I think I'm liking the Husky so far although I haven't had a chance to even register it yet due to the Covid so I haven't put too many miles on it.
 
Both the clutch and the side stand switch is usually in the open setting , as in you pull in the clutch and the switch closes and “lets” the ground connect.
lots of folks remove the kickstand switch , As this often fails after being in deep water, and just connect the wires on the remaining harness. Both of these use part of the same wiring , so if the kick stand is down the bike won’t start in gear. Check this switch or remove it and close the wires First . It is possible that your clutch switch pulled out of the perch or is unplugged.
 
While we're talking clutch issues can you point me in the direction of a replacement bar assembly, mine snapped off below the mirror threaded boss.
 

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