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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky design fixes I'd do...

HomeFinance said:
Great post!
For the TE's
1. Min of a 3 gal tank
2. Make 6th gear tall enough to cruise comfy at 60mpg on the hwy.
3. Put the counter balancer back in.
IMHO these simple changes would make a very good bike a great bike.
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4.stronger spline shaft
5.uprated brearing in swing arm.
6.solid crank not compressed.
7.more water proof speedo as water gets in the lense.
8.better indecator sub frame.
 
My 07 TE610 has a defect in the right plastic panel. There is a tab that has an eyelet in it and it's used to secure or "screw" the piece into the front of the fuel tank. The eyelet is placed too close to the edge of the tab and breaks loose easily. Every TE610 I've seen has this defect as do all the replacements I've seen.

It's an easy enough fix but it still makes me wonder why someone would go ahead and keep selling something that is so obviously defective.
 
Number One design Issue for Husky right now, poor fuel pump placement relative to pickup and tank fuel level. The 09/10 EFI bikes suffer from a poorly designed FP set up. I have experienced it within 8-13 hours of ownership. All the other stuff, normal dirtbike stuff. I have had issues with subframe tabs on many brands. Looks like in 11 they may have done better both with FP placement and tank capacity. Other than that, I like my 2010 310 very much. Great motor.
 
I really dont want to rain on anyones parade but the oem is not going to renew engineering on non-current models for issues found post production. we may see updates to the 449/511 and x-lite250/310 models. Our 450/510 models are done out of production. the 610 series may have updates or recalls but i think no, now that the 630 is the new production design.
 
steadydirt said:
Also; one can drill and tap in zerk fittings for the swingarm-ez on the clutch side, need to be thoughtful on the chain side, a 45 degree fitting works here. Last thing, I think Scott Summers used a rubber tube cover zip-tied on the bottom shock heim to repel spooge.
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Many KTM riders cut a section of front inner tube to place over the bottom shock and heim bearing.
 
my list 09 510
speedo dont work
decals came off after a couple of rides
fuel cap feels cross threaded all the time
shifter to short and rubs on chain
chain rubs on inside of frame
fuel lght dont work
fuel tanks to small
inserts in tank spin when bolting up fairings
decomp cable to short had to remove
oil in air box
crankcase oil gasket leaking
back shock fell apart
fork seals leaking with 300ks on it
gear ratio to small
side stand is useless
swingarm bearings rusted
back disc rattles
wont start with a flat battery with kicker
and thats just off the top of my head...and with 2000ks on it.
 
My 2005 TC 250 still has its stock decals.... they have only started to unstick a little on the edges.
 
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