• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 husky, new problems

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Hey guys. Picked up my 2013 310R today. Within an hour I've been noticing some problems, mostly probably caused by a flat battery. Bike won't start on the button but starts on the kicker. I'm getting some error codes on the dash when she starts up - I get the code 103 when I kick it and then E41E 2099 when she starts idling. The codes go on idle but then the bike cuts out after blipping the throttle. Anyone got any insights?
 
Ignore the E41E 2099 code - that is the software for the display.

Don't know about the code 103 though.

Have you turned the "choke" control - If you turn it (rather than pull out for choke), this alters the mixture.
I was told of someone a couple of years ago turned it too far one way and it stopped the bike, as it was too weak to run.
May be on the wrong track, but worth a turn or two to check.

Mike
 
Thanks for the post mate. Funny you say that as I have been turning that control! Yeah thought that was the choke, didn't realise it was a mixture control. Will play around with it to see what the optimum setting is, is there a bench mark number of clicks do you know?
 
Just found it in the manual, 34 clicks from closed. Will set it and once the battery's charged give it another go.
 
I figure it's your battery. When I was testing a flaky battery the FI light would flash, codes came up, etc.... If it starts and runs OK when charged, still maybe test the battery with a meter to see what voltage it is the next day. Thee bikes due to the decompressor sensitivity and small starter, are enhanced by a good slightly stronger LI battery such as the EarthX. You may be fine with a charge but just something to keep in mind. The slight advantage overcomes the chance of the starter bogging down at TDC.
 
Well had the battery on an optimate overnight which showed it as charged this morning. Still won't start on the button. No clicks or anything. Starts on the kick after a couple of attempts though. As you say it may just need a new battery. The fork seals are weeping anyway so I may book it in for a service at my local dealer and get them to go through the whole bike and fix whatever comes up. Cheers guys
 
These bikes don't need a battery to kickstart, so your battery might be dead and it will still start with the kick.
 
Yeah that's a good feature of these 310Rs.

I also tried jump starting it with some leads connected to another another bike but it still wouldn't start on the button. If the starter switch/system was ok it should still start right?
 
I take it that when you hit the button, you get nothing, no click, whine, whirr or clunk.

Check the clutch switch wires, and the switch - they are vulnerable in a fall if you have bark busters on.

Mike
 
Yeah that's it, just silence! I think the clutch switch is ok as it's kicking alright and that needs the clutch to be pulled in too I think
 
It will start without the clutch on the kicker. I bump start at times if heading downhill. Just really a safety switch so you don't mistakenly start it in gear on the kickstand etc... May be a starter relay but if that battery is dead, even with a charge, it may drop voltage quick enough under load on starting. A cheap multimeter should clue you in.
 
Yeah I didn't have voltmeter with me annoyingly. The shop picked it up today and it's going in for a full service so they should get it sorted. Gonna get the starter gears replaced while I'm at it to avoid anymore lost riding time. Will post up the results. Cheers
 
It's always the simple things eh. Turned out to be a bloody fuse on the starter relay! One that I'd checked too That's the trouble with having the bike away from home, I don't have access to my bits and bobs. Would've put new ones in as a matter of course. Will take a few fuses down next time to avoid anymore newbie mistakes lol
 
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