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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Motor no More

shilo020 said:
Broke a rod. Damaged crank. Broken piston. Hole in cylinder. Bent exhaust valves. But other than that it's fine!

Danny and Ty will get it fixed up better than before.
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That sounds bad :-( how much do you think just in parts?
 
My buddy has a 310 x-light he hammers and does no maintenance to. It runs great at 6500 miles with no issues.
 
shilo020 said:
Broke a rod. Damaged crank. Broken piston. Hole in cylinder. Bent exhaust valves. But other than that it's fine!
Danny and Ty will get it fixed up better than before.
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Sorry to hear man, sounds like a bum rod from the factory, all good luck on the rebuild!
 
They said it is a hydrolock problem between the crank and the rod. Which is why they do their special crank relief to get better oil flow. That's what they said. I don't prtend to understand it.
 
Alberto said:
My 2011 TE250 is xlite or big block? What are the differences between them?
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Yours is the xlite which is a completely different motor to the "old" big block (Shilo020's 310 is a big block)The big block pre ~2010 was the same/very similar motor for the 250 310 450 and 510s. Just had different bore/strokes and heads basically.
 
shilo020 said:
They said it is a hydrolock problem between the crank and the rod. Which is why they do their special crank relief to get better oil flow. That's what they said. I don't prtend to understand it.
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There will be a sizable difference when you ride it again. The increased oil flow from the rod bearing will lubricate and cool the wrist pin, piston and cylinder much more than oem.
 
Tinken said:
There will be a sizable difference when you ride it again. The increased oil flow from the rod bearing will lubricate and cool the wrist pin, piston and cylinder much more than oem.
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I dont understand how the engineers at the factory cannot design something similar and manufacture the bikes with this problem solved from the production line
 
Alberto said:
I dont understand how the engineers at the factory cannot design something similar and manufacture the bikes with this problem solved from the production line
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We have gotten way further into the use hours of these machines, they were engineered as a full on light weight racing engine bikes. These little engines.....IMHO are under engineered for everyday use with long term hours, they are no-compromise race engines, without alot of evolution to add changes to solve issues discovered through the evolutionary process.
The CH Racing factory enduro team won 3 world championships with these platforms....but as a race team you can bet they did complete tear downs after every 2 day WEC enduro race weekend.
Ty and company (Tinken) have identified specific X-Lite longer term failure trends and have engineered cures for these failures.
Hopefully the new owners of this motor tech (Gas-Gas and Shineray and/or ??), will see review and build these upgrades into these engines for the future constructions.
 
shilo020 said:
Broke a rod. Damaged crank. Broken piston. Hole in cylinder. Bent exhaust valves. But other than that it's fine!

Danny and Ty will get it fixed up better than before.
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Too bad on your bike .. As bad as it is and this sounds bad but $ is all that is needed for the fix ... :( and all those other numbers mentioned above sound so small to me on the lifetime of these machines...

My 08 TXC250 has in the neighbor hood of ~23,000KMs ... It had a big end bearing go bad at about 950hrs due to the rider I think but nothing else has really gone bad with it ... Its gonna go head-to-head against my 010 TC250s in some trail-riding time-trials in the near future if all stays well. (Don't bet against 6speed trail bikes :))

Good luck with the repair job ...
 
Centerline said:
Probably more than $100 and less than some other number
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Im sorry, did not want to make you feel uncomfortable.. just being curious as just in case how much do I have to spend when the time comes for my engine.. hope that time will not come soon :-)
 
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