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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Drowned my bike yesterday. What next?

Cavery

Cavery

Husqvarna
AA Class
I drowned my TXC 250 yesterday in a deeper than expected post downpour puddle (I know! big rookie mistake. Lesson definitely learned). Anyway, I got it home, pulled the plug, exhaust, and carb and drained the oil. There was definitely water in there, but I think most of it entered through the pipe. Flipped the bike upside down, cranked the kick starter and hopefully drained most of it out.

Put it all back together and tried forever to get it started. For a while all it did was make a loud pfft noise out of the exhaust every now and then. I'm guessing it was backfiring. It did try a few times with the pipe remove and when it made the pfft notice there was flame popping out of the exhaust port. When it wouldn't start I put the exhaust back on. The compression seemed good so I kept going. For the next half hour I continued to alternate between the e starter and kicking. Finally in between pffts it started to make a gig like it actually might want to go every 5-10 attempts. Kept at it for another 10-15, a few gurgles here and there but still wouldn't run.

I killed the battery and hooked up a car battery I had lying around which had a lot more juice, and it a finally started! I had just about given up, but now it starts just as easily as it did before and sounds fine, hopefully it's good.

Now I'm worried about how much sand and dirt might have entered the crankcase. When I drained the oil, there was definitely some grit in the screen filter. How worried should I be? I'm going to drain the oil again at least once more to make sure I got all of the water and grime, should I do more? Does this warrant splitting her open?

Any opinions appreciated.
 
You are correct, drain the oil again. Inspect the filter. Make sure the oil is a good colour and not milky or has any separation once it has settled. If it looks OK it probably is-put a new filter in too. Good luck
 
Drowned my te250r once took me two days to get it going. I did drain the oil twice after starting though. Just gave it a good warm up between changes
That was 30 hrs ago, now got over 100hrs on motor and going good. Good Luck

Drowned my wr300 once too, after 20mins on the trail and we had it fixed and off again, good old 2 Bangers :)
 
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