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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Dies With a Screetch

nycrider

nycrider

Husqvarna
AA Class
The hot weather kicked in again and brought back something to my memory that has happened multiple times last summer. When pulling off from a complete stop and fiddling with the clutch and throttle, the bike dies with a loud screech that doesn't sound good. I don't know if it's weather related, but I don't seem to recall hearing the screech when the bike dies during cold weather. Here's a vid:

View: https://youtu.be/vu5Fd4ac1lE


Is this anything to worry about?

EXTRA: Now this does not relate at all to the issue above, but has had me curious. Sometimes when trying to hit the throttle at any speeds to accelerate, a weird sound comes from the gas cap area, making the throttle twist unresponsive for that single twist and then everything else is all right. I can't find a word to describe that sound, but it kind of sounds like a human hiccup.
 
nycrider said:
The hot weather kicked in again and brought back something to my memory that has happened multiple times last summer. When pulling off from a complete stop and fiddling with the clutch and throttle, the bike dies with a loud screech that doesn't sound good. I don't know if it's weather related, but I don't seem to recall hearing the screech when the bike dies during cold weather. Here's a vid:

Is this anything to worry about?

EXTRA: Now this does not relate at all to the issue above, but has had me curious. Sometimes when trying to hit the throttle at any speeds to accelerate, a weird sound comes from the gas cap area, making the throttle twist unresponsive for that single twist and then everything else is all right. I can't find a word to describe that sound, but it kind of sounds like a human hiccup.
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The 'dies with a screech' sometimes happens to me when my bike stumbles or stalls and on mine it is the engine kicking backwards against the starter motor bendix arrangement - not good, sounds horrible and possibly very damaging but so far I haven't suffered anything more.

The hiccup sounds like it is also related to the lean stumble and is a half hearted backfire which you hear through the airbox (gas cap area). The simultaneous lack of engine response is also associated with the lean stumble.
 
Mark_H said:
The 'dies with a screech' sometimes happens to me when my bike stumbles or stalls and on mine it is the engine kicking backwards against the starter motor bendix arrangement - not good, sounds horrible and possibly very damaging but so far I haven't suffered anything more.

The hiccup sounds like it is also related to the lean stumble and is a half hearted backfire which you hear through the airbox (gas cap area). The simultaneous lack of engine response is also associated with the lean stumble.
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Quick response, didn't get to upload the vid in time :) So is there anyway of avoiding it? Thank you for your input!
 
nycrider said:
Quick response, didn't get to upload the vid in time :) So is there anyway of avoiding it? Thank you for your input!
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Ok having now seen the vid it is definitely as I described, the engine kicking back against the starter motor gear. If it is any consolation, your video screech is not has as bad as some of the crashing bangs and screams I have had come from my engine when it happened.
Quite often after one of those stalls, I have gingerly pressed the starter expecting it all to go totally bang and mash everything up, but so far it hasn't.

As for the cure...how long is a piece of string? There are literally 1000s of posts on various remedies and some have a lot more success than others.
I am currently experimenting with yet another piece of electronics to see if I can eradicate the lean stumble issue totally.
 
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