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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Flame out causes me to fail motorcycle road test.

I think you'll find this issue carries into other brands as well. KTM EXC DS bikes also stall out quite a bit out of the box. Get over it and ride.

Let's try and keep this on the helping side, plenty of complaining already for one thread.
 
Dangermouse449 said:
People SHOULD NOT have to put up with this in a new bike.
It fires me up that we're all on here because we have trouble like this, and there are fixes, but at the end of the day Husqvarna released them as ready to ride road legal bikes and they don't have a cure for the faulty tuning!
The time we have all wasted......Grrrrrr!
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This is the territory with street legal race bikes. Notice we NEVER see the TXC guys in here talking about their horrendous jetting - they have a good solution.

I could have gone with a TXC and then gambled that I can get a plate - which USUALLY works for me... This time I took the sure bet with getting a plate and knew that I would need to fiddle with the EFI.

All in all I am happy and would not change the course I took. I wish I would have just went direct to where I am today - live and learn.
 
Look, I'm venting & this isn't the place to do it I guess, but if more people took it up with the dealers when new maybe they would have been fixed by Husky.
I love my bike now, so do you guys I'm sure, but imagine how many more customers never got to the bottom of the issues & bought something else. Not good for the brand.
None of the other brands I ride with here in Oz suffer these tuning issues & we're all on street reg enduros of one brand or another. We have to have a compliance bike to ride through forestry tracks etc.

I'll leave it there & try to be quiet now.
 
Dangermouse449 said:
Look, I'm venting & this isn't the place to do it I guess, but if more people took it up with the dealers when new maybe they would have been fixed by Husky.
I love my bike now, so do you guys I'm sure, but imagine how many more customers never got to the bottom of the issues & bought something else. Not good for the brand.
None of the other brands I ride with here in Oz suffer these tuning issues & we're all on street reg enduros of one brand or another. We have to have a compliance bike to ride through forestry tracks etc.

I'll leave it there & try to be quiet now.
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No - I get it...I just know this is not unique to Husky. I am surprised as hell that any of the OEMs ship these street legal bikes like this as I feel they are setting themselves up for a massive lawsuit.

At some point, someone will have a bike flame out at an intersection and get killed. Any dime store lawyer can drag ten new TEs in the courtroom and every single one will flame out. Add about 10000 threads from Cafe Husky and Husky will be staring down the barrel of a $20M lawsuit.

All that being said, I have only had one other bike that took less screwing around to get it to run perfect - a Honda CRF250X - that bike was almost competition ready off the floor. Even my KTM RFS (which hold a place of honor in the garage) took more tinkering.

That being said, I am one of the lucky ones and have a 449 that runs like a scalded cat and I have really not put much into it at all. I got away with no EFI mods (aside from the BMW map). The bike is flat out perfect now.

And vent away - Husky wont listen...we will here.
 
Im with you 100% on the lawsuit thing, have mentioned it before.
I can see it now - here we have professional rider xyz on defence exhibit A , he will now demonstrate to the court accelerating from standstill - Cough/stall.... :(

I do understand the whole cost of development vs price point etc, but can it really be so hard?

Anyhow, back fixing bikes we've all bought & riding them like they should be, flat out!! :)
 
Simple fact is it has to be crazy lean to get the plate. Then we undo all that to make it run acceptable. Multiple cylinders are EZer to make this go away as they have several cylinders keeping it all spinning as well as much more crank mass and reciprocating parts to keep it all in motion. Light cranks, high compression and lean maps are the spoiler. EFI MX bikes tend to run strong out of the box. It is simply what we need to deal with on a street legal bike. We now have piles of solutions we can implement, some elegant some stupid simple. All good and why we have forums. :cheers:
 
I used my 2012 te310 to take the test. I did bump up the idle rpms to 2000 to make it more manageble. Passed 1st time out.
 
With map3, a JD tuner and the brass screw you should be able to get it to run prefect. I also removed the secondary BF which made the occasional "dead throttle" issue disappear altogether.
 
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