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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New 13 TXC 310

Indorider said:
Like Nissen said "Remember to grease bearings all over". I think this is a top tip for any of the Husky's.

There was a Demo day last week about 4 hours from where I live. I'm happy it was 4 hours away or I'd probably be broke right now. A new redhead would fit right in my garage but once my wife saw it I'd also be sleeping in the garage!
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I know what you mean, mine didn't speak to me for a day!

I have been kicking around about installing those flush type grease fittings in my linkage/swing arm, so I can use a grease gun needle?

I use the needles quite a bit, since the cars/trucks come with those ungreasable ball joints/tie rod ends. I just peirce the boot on the back side of them and pump them full of grease. Since I put on alot of miles, seems to make them last longer.

I was really shocked that the front wheel bearings (SKF) had almost no grease in them, under seal. The rear ones were fine.

Sounds like my suspension will be done today :applause:. I will post results when I get them back and get some seat time. I know they went up on springs front and rear and sounds like, only some minor changes to shims. They said those KYB's are a really good platform from the get go.
 
birdy said:
Seems that you was working on the bike for a bit. Just a question for the rear boinker: What is the quicket and easiest way to take it out? On my KTM (250 smoker) with the PDS it is done in 2 min. For my TE310 it was a bit more work and I took out the linkage and swingarm. This is quite good because than you usually see that it needs some grease...

But if you're in a hurry, what's best?
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I've had mine out several times now. The subframe needs to come off. No way around it that I can find. After that it is three bolts. You need to drop the link on the bottom to get to the shock bolt. Then just remove the shock bolts and pull the shock out.
 
The shock on the X-light will come out without removing sub-frame bolts. With bike on stand just take dog bone bolt loose, lower shock bolt, and then put something under the rear wheel to support it about 2/3 through the stroke. Take out upper shock bolt and then while working on the right side of the bike you want to turn your shock reservoir I believe to counter clockwise and work it out through the bottom. Sometimes you may have to take your knee and put it under the swingarm to move it to get it just right to remove shock but after doing this a few times it's pretty easy. One other tip is when you put your bike on the stand to be sure the stand is further forward on your frame rails, this gives the dog bone a little further to get out of the way.

Nice looking bike, shorai is my choice on light weight batteries now. Mine has been very reliable. Only issue is like others have said, they do not work well when cold in morning. These batteries actually get more juice as they build up with heat from cranking.
 
pvduke said:
wicked nice can lettering.

darty you ever sleep or what man??
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Thanx, glad you are back! Just remember, 4st stroke is boomchuggalugga boom, paroop dangdang!

I get always get a laugh out of your bike descriptions with letters you sound out.
 
Motosportz said:
Yet you manned up and got the bike anyway :thumbsup:



Even the ones that are "fine" and have that white crap needs washed out and filled with water proof Belray or the like IMHO.
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Kelly, better find your bifocals. You missed the battery section. Got any imput on batteries?
 
dartyppyt said:
Kelly, better find your bifocals. You missed the battery section. Got any imput on batteries?
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tried two of them, both failed, run stock ones now. Was not any of the brands you posted and was an earlier version. Do not really know much about these. Pissed me off to have two trail failures that ended my day so I will stick with what I know works.
 
raisrx251 said:
The shock on the X-light will come out without removing sub-frame bolts. With bike on stand just take dog bone bolt loose, lower shock bolt, and then put something under the rear wheel to support it about 2/3 through the stroke. Take out upper shock bolt and then while working on the right side of the bike you want to turn your shock reservoir I believe to counter clockwise and work it out through the bottom. Sometimes you may have to take your knee and put it under the swingarm to move it to get it just right to remove shock but after doing this a few times it's pretty easy. One other tip is when you put your bike on the stand to be sure the stand is further forward on your frame rails, this gives the dog bone a little further to get out of the way.
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That was something I was looking for, thanks pal. Sounds a bit compicated but I hope to manage it... I will just try and then let you know how it worked. Right now we have have tons of snow here in Germany and I'm afraid my new red head has to wait for a bit... But after 5h I will bring my boinkers to service. Did that on every bike and I love it. People are discussing about the intervals of changing motor oil in detail and often forget that 60% of the fun is the chassis... Pretty often run in riders who are going out with bikes that never had a service on the boinkers, WTF?!

Coming back to the Shorai battery. You can choose between the little and the big one, both are fitting into the original space. I chose the big one with 14 ah (which is an equivalent of bla bla bla normal battery). That one is cranking like hell. The lowest temeparture where I tried it was below 5°C, no probs.
 
Thanx for all imput so far Husky brothers! :thumbsup:

I put a 49 rear sprocket on tonight to see if it spaces out the first 3 gears a bit. I think I get all three Pogo sticks Friday.

For 205lbs, they put .48 springs front and 5.6 rear. Oil height is set at 340mm. Hope I can take it for a test ride.

I will also post a lil trick I do on front forks, so there are no stiction issues.
 
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Umm, excuse me, Sir. Using your bike as a clothes hanger?!?!? That's what KTM's are for. Please say 3 Hail Mary's, 2 Our Father's, and buy some wheel rim tape and your penance will be served.
 
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Umm, excuse me, Sir. Using your bike as a clothes hanger?!?!? That's what KTM's are for. Please say 3 Hail Mary's, 2 Our Father's, and buy some wheel rim tape and your penance will be served.
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Oh yeah, didn't think about that. What colors? Silver,black and red husky logos? Black with silver and red logos?

What you think would look Good?

I just put the red/black rear sprocket on. I also moved my 310 decals down sides of white fork protectors.

My son better get working on his if he plans to race. He wants new graphics/black frame.
 
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Tessier?

Is yours 4 or 8 Cell? I measured last night and doesn't look like 8 cell fits in box? Could be a bifocal glasses issue on my end.

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Mine is an 8 cell I can grab a pic tonight it fits just fine in the stock battery holder. Part number was 100-011 I ended up ordering it from amazon and paid $137.67 with free shipping. My local shop loves Shorai batteries but I like the made is the USA thing enough to go the ballistic route.
 
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