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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Honest reliabilty assesment

ghte

ghte

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Hi Husqarians. I am a long time Husky owner and just can't see myself owning another brand. My 3 huskies were all 4 bangers have been brilliant, not one mechanical failure (recon its the splash of oil I put in the fuel + TLC). All of my bikes have been carby machines. I am in the process of getting another bike, and will wait for either the new 310 or 450. My concern here is that I read cafe Husky every day and it seems to me the efi bikes have lots of quirks, reliability issues and a need to keep having diagnostics. I would really appreciate honest opinions of the efi side of Husqvarna as I am feeling a wee bit aprehensive. I know most of my concern is due to a total lack of experience with bike efi, none the less it does seem to me that there are issues. Thank you in advance for your thoughts and input, it will be seriously considered.
 
2010 TXC250, my first EFI bike. Has a little glitch in the real low RPM range. Reflash helped but it is still there. not a huge issue but not 100% right ether. Bike has been stone reliable, no EFI issues. Most the iBeat stuff i do it playing around not fixing major issues. Kind of like trying various needles in my 124/144. It runs great but I'm always playing with it cuz I can. So the EFI is good but the Berg EFI is GREAT. I am really hoping the new TE449/TE511 is going to be Berg like in the EFI department and all indications are it is. As for the new TE310 I have heard from the dealer meeting and such this is the bike to watch, going to be real good and have lots of power. I guess people who have ridden it are saying it is VERY good.
 
Heres My honest and simple opinion-

I always seem to have had carb bogging problems so I hate them.

Had a glitch on the lower end of my current efi bike, powered up and now I think its not bad.

1- if your super picky/sensitive about perfect fueling, and dont want to have to mess with it to get it perfect, dont get a Husky efi bike.

2- if your like me and just dont want a bike that bogs, and want a bike that will ALWAYS start and run good(maybe not like a PERFECTLY tuned FCR) the Husky efi bikes should be fine for you.

I swapped bikes with a guy that I ride with that bought my 07 WR250F and he never mentioned anything about the bikes fueling. Just said that the power would wear on him during an Enduro. He does use the clutch a bit though.

Happy hunting!( has to be one of the most exciting things in the world to start the research on a future new bike)
 
2 Husky EFI bikes. '08 TE 250 and '10 TXC 250. '08 bike was perfect out of the box. '10 bike was 95% out of the box and 110% with new exhaust and accompanying ECU upgrade.
 
I sort of am in UR boat, but nothing is perfect ... CARBS or EFI hardware or the software than runs the EFI ...

Myself, I don't want EFI because if it breaks once , ever, and I'm in the sticks, I can't trouble shoot it ... also, I can't afford a $500 fuel pump, ever, or the hardware needed to tune it ... not today or 3 years from now unless the u.s. stock market turns way up ... I don't want the added risk of this technology till it is 100% forced on me ...

With all that said, EFI might be 'better' but I can't afford it or the risk in my life \ riding ... And it ain't gonna make me a better rider ... I don't have CARB issues and my 08 TXC250 goes as fast or slow as I want it to :) .. on street, or trails or tracks ...

All bikes, 2T included, are all gonna end up with this technology as programmers can program this hardware to work more efficiently than the CARB ...same as programmers can program anti-lock disk brakes to out perform UR foot ...
 
Thank you the response guys, I appreciate your time and thoughts. My gut feel is that the efi's are pretty good although Husky should probably have used a better manufacturer. It also looks like the new machines will probably be further advanced and hopefully improved.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top