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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Has any one seized a TE449 yet?

Tinken said:
I agree, except for the tuner. I do not agree to adding aftermarket tuners in an attempt to band-aid faulty efi systems.

While I do not have a tuner on my 511, I did have to load the upgraded maps into the stock ecu (most dealers can and should do this). The original maps on the TE/TXC were designed around emission control and may have been faulty anyway (low voltage signalling). The addition of aftermarket tuners are not necessary. Adding tuners on top of a reliable base with these newer maps would not only increase power further, but will keep the fuel system reliability originally anticipated. Adding aftermarket ecu's will provide an even greater functionality to an already impressive motorcycle.

After inspecting Jeff's engine, I see the value of my preachings of oil viscosity in these engines. Not that Jeff had any control over his previous owner, much of the damage may very well have been from the original owner. No worries Jeff, with your approval of the new mods, the next time you have concerns about getting enough oil through your new oil galleries, Niagara Falls imagery will leave you with a sense of comfort.
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Curious about this mod.. May be grabbing a te 449/511 soon..
 
Huskynoobee said:
I beg to differ sir. My 449 is bone stock except for running on map II. I have not added the Zipty breather yet as I am waiting for the breather bottles to be finished.


Other than one TPS reset my bike works awesome from sea level to 8000'+ in cool forests and deep hot sand for over 1200 miles. I believe most people who have bought JD or other tuners have done so because they simply did what someone else said they had to in order to make it work.

I'd be happy to let you try and catch me in the hills on my poor old stock machine.
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I can not speak for the 449/511 but I can say that the 08-10 450/510 bikes were actually worthless garbage from the factory without a 300 dollar pu kit and a 300 dollar plus IBeat software and a TON of prepping/modding/diy fixes just to get it to run period.
 
I plan on doing a PCV, but I have been very happy with my 2012TE511. I have not had flame outs. I do have an FMF can
On it, dealer recommended, I bought mine from an experienced dealer (halls) and it has been a joy. I did not even ask
About maps, but was assured it was set up correctly, the bike rips on tight single track, and anywhere,else, I let a couple
Of different guys ride it who regularly win TT, motocross, and they were grinning and commenting on the power and handling, I am running the 0/40 oil and change it every time it's ridden on a track, and probably to often otherwise.
I don't know if long term reliability will be an issue, but we will find out here. I am watching closely to see how long
Rearwheelins, tinkens, mine and others last, we have to remember that to have this kind of performance from a
4 stroke plated bike, the kind of longevity that other "dual sport bikes" have might not be realistic.
 
Huskynoobee said:
I beg to differ sir. My 449 is bone stock except for running on map II. I have not added the Zipty breather yet as I am waiting for the breather bottles to be finished.


Other than one TPS reset my bike works awesome from sea level to 8000'+ in cool forests and deep hot sand for over 1200 miles. I believe most people who have bought JD or other tuners have done so because they simply did what someone else said they had to in order to make it work.

I'd be happy to let you try and catch me in the hills on my poor old stock machine.
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That's great! I'd venture to guess you got one of the gems, mine has no issues with oil in airbox thankfully and I have done nothing to prevent that but it simply would not run in the hills here, consistent stalling. If you read any of my posts you will know I don't run things because others said they are great.

Just the fact you are waiting to add on a breather bottle affirms everything is not peachy to begin with.
 
I am the same, if it makes sense to me and my experience I will make changes, my bike really does not need the
Tuner. On the other hand, the bike is lean and I believe it would last longer and run a little better with a richer one.
 
Halls can add the BMW #3 maps to your stock ecu. These are much richer in air/fuel ratios.
 
It may be what's in there. It runs great, as I said, no flame outs, no surging, I may not do better with a tuner,,,
Inquiring minds, want to know....I will check, and see what's up. How many miles will your bike last Tinken?
I can't see mine going long past 10,000, with the abuse it gets....I am saving for,the rebuild or a new one already.
 
I agree, I think that's where I am going, 14,000 would be great,
I should have the PC by now, but bought 2 bikes so as to take some load off the 511 (Gertrude)
I agree with 95% of you opinions, assessments Tinken. (that's an A at Harvard)
That's amazing for an old crabby washed up motorcycle mechanic turned electrical person,,LOL
 
jeffrodub said:
I am in the process of tearing down my 2011 TE449 because the engine seized. Not sure why it seized yet but since I am basically going to remove nearly every part to get the engine out are there any suggestions on what I should look at or service since I have the parts off the bike?
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Jeff's 449 engine has been fully rebuilt with a brand new ZipTy updated crank.
 
Well.. Normally it is just a mod, but since his piston rod was welded to his old crankshaft, it is brand new and modded. Its a TC/TE/TXC/SMR 250/310/449/511 thing. :)
 
Huskynoobee said:
I beg to differ sir. My 449 is bone stock except for running on map II. I have not added the Zipty breather yet as I am waiting for the breather bottles to be finished.


Other than one TPS reset my bike works awesome from sea level to 8000'+ in cool forests and deep hot sand for over 1200 miles. I believe most people who have bought JD or other tuners have done so because they simply did what someone else said they had to in order to make it work.

I'd be happy to let you try and catch me in the hills on my poor old stock machine.
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First ride on my '11 te449 was a disappointment. It was a very hilly ride north of Phoenix. The engine was weak and stalled repeatedly at the worst of times. "Someone else" on here said to get the map II jumper, so I did. The bike was somewhat better but not great. Still flaming out and wouldn't come close to pulling either of my friends' 450x in drags. Then "someone else" claimed a FMF slip-on made an improvement, so I tried that too. Rode my new FMF equipped bike back to back with another te without the pipe - no question there was a bit more power, but flameouts got worse. Then "someone else" on here claimed the JD was the ticket, so I got one of those too. Yep. That was the trick. No stalls and big power. Eats the 450x for lunch in simple drags.

Now... "Someone else" is stating I might be able to dump the JD and remap the ECU with BMW #3 and get great results. I'm curious. Can anyone definitively tell me this works and the JD is unnecessary? If so, I could sell the JD and reinstall my O2 sensor and run a stock bike, other than pipe. Tinken?
 
I have full FMF race exhaust and my air filter is modded, so I am running as open of a system as you can go. I do not use a JD tuner or PCV, I only have the stock ecu and map#3. You may wish to add your JD on top of this map upgrade or just leave it at that, that's up to you.
 
I run an FMF quietcore 4 with quietcore insert. I have the jumper installed. My dealer installed what he called the
Open exhaust map. My experience was the same as yours for the most part. My bike rips, with this set up.
I don't know about a 450X, but it will out pull WR450's as serveral guys at the club have them. No flame outs,
Crisp throttle response, no popping on decel, feels like it runs like its suppose to. One place I ride, there are plenty
of guys on open class motocross bikes, enduros etc., I notice that a high percentage are hard starting, and sound
Very lean, it seems the EPA has effected all brands. This map upgrade sure seems like the ticket, and is cheap.
I would try it for the money, I am more than satisfied! Also if you run the upgrade map, no O2 sensor.
 
Yep! And most of the other do too. On a side note. Road a couple of hours at splintercreek yesterday, and was racing
a couple of guys on the TT track on my WR 125, and beating them handily. Then a guy on a YZ 250 comes out and smokes
Us all. Rested up and we went to the woods, which was very slick and muddy, the fastest guy was on a TTR250,
RIDER, RIDER, RIDER...
 
For the guys worrying about JD vs Map 3, I think its important to remember that when the 2011 models came out the first and only solution to the flame out/lean surging was the JD tuner....which does an admirable job, at least on my bikes. Shortly after the more complex and more tunable PCV came along...and then Tinken got the word out about Map 3.

That said, a properly configured map (eg Map 3) should be a better solution than the JD...and offers the possibility of using the JD for further fine tuning for those inclined to fiddle. One of these days I will have Bills load Map 3 on one of my bikes and see how it compares, but I have no reason to doubt the reports of its efficacy. I believe Kelly has just made the switch from JD (his bike was the JD test bike) to Map 3 and hopefully he will give us a report after he gets back from Idaho City.
 
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