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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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Lugging motor?

columbia510

columbia510

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hello everyone. I'm breaking in my 09 450te. I am trying to not overrev the bike or lug the motor during these critical times. My question is, what RPM is considered lugging. when riding at 3800rpm the motor seems to be lugging. About 4100rpm is where this bike starts to streatch its legs a bit and I have not been past 6000rpm so far. I cant wait to see how this compares to the old ride I had once I break this motor in. Thanks and happy sliding.
 
Its not the revs but the gear, ie if you are assending a hill in first 3800 would not be lugging but it may well be so in third. In terms of breaking in, don't be too cautious. Ride it with respect and don't wring the stuffings out of her. Change the oil and filter pretty regularly till about 1000 miles on the clock. I believe it is good for engines to experience a bit of variance in load during the the first few rides to help bed the engine in.
 
Feels like it's lugging because it's choking on excess fuel. (IMO)

If you don't have access to the software to tweak it - pull out the spark arrestor, turn the idle air bleed (thumbscrew) to 2 3/4 turns from fully seated to bring the idle up to 1850-2000rpm. That's about all you can do - unless you have access to oxygenated fuel.

I'm assuming the bike has been "powered-up".

My 09 510 was the same. Pull the spark plug and you'll find it black.

MAT
 
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