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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Potential Australian recall

A not so honest tech lifted the dealer's moss pigtail when he quit or was fired, I think, since they couldn't find theirs and KTM swore they were sent one. It took 6 weeks to get it done on my bike. When it lost power below 5k rpm less than 60 miles later, they told me they no longer support this bike. Not sure that the owner of this dealership in Bend,OR,USA would agree with this policy. Bike is now in the custody of a more agreeable dealer in Salem,OR where at least they'll talk to me and keep bugging the KTM service rep 3 months after the power loss developed. Never had a moment's trouble with the bike before returning for the recall. Maybe I'm being superstitious but I would say don't return it for the recall,ha!
 
Benergy said:
A not so honest tech lifted the dealer's moss pigtail when he quit or was fired, I think, since they couldn't find theirs and KTM swore they were sent one. It took 6 weeks to get it done on my bike. When it lost power below 5k rpm less than 60 miles later, they told me they no longer support this bike. Not sure that the owner of this dealership in Bend,OR,USA would agree with this policy. Bike is now in the custody of a more agreeable dealer in Salem,OR where at least they'll talk to me and keep bugging the KTM service rep 3 months after the power loss developed. Never had a moment's trouble with the bike before returning for the recall. Maybe I'm being superstitious but I would say don't return it for the recall,ha!
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Did you ride it or let it idle to fan on after recall? What did it run like before recall..?
 
Had my ECU done (three week turnaround). Definitely idles smoother and less hesitant at take off which is an improvement.
Only downside is a longer crank during cold starting. Anyone else experience the same issue?
 
Yep. Same with mine although the cold start seemed to improve a little bit after a few short rides.
 
For my bike it was an improvement. I think it all depends on what mods you have previously done to it. eg spoofer, firmware, plugs etc.
Just for interest sake, how many cold cranks?
 
PaulC said:
Just for interest sake, how many cold cranks?
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BOG, stock Strada here, PodMod only. ECU update done.
Temps ~0 to -5C all morning today, 4 cold starts, one from stone cold after not running for 4 weeks took 4-5 cranks, the other 3 cold starts took 2 cranks each.
I needed about 20 cranks myself each time :-)
 
PaulC said:
Just for interest sake, how many cold cranks?
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4-5 cold cranks after installing the ECU which has not improved after several rides. No engine mods whatsoever.
Winter/preventative maintenance while bike was waiting for ECU -
* new 180cca agm battery installed. Previous one was five years old; still okay though.
* new NGK MAR9A-J plugs
* oil and filter change
With the old calibration, cold & hot cranks = 2; 3 if bike sat around for a while.
 
was a proper adaption reset and rebuild performed after the firmware update? Mine requires 2-3 cranks cold and 1 warm quite consistently.
 
Reading the service manual, it mentions plugs with excessive gap will cause hard starting. The MAR9A-J come pre-gapped at 0.8mm not 0.6mm as factory specified.
I installed them as-is as recommended by the dealer but I'll remove them & regap to see if there's an improvement as it's a simple task.
 
The spark plugs could be our common denominator. I had new plugs fitted at the same time the ECU was done. It was done at the dealers so I have no idea if they set the gap or not.
 
The plug gaps are not a factor, the TR650 has coils which will fire across 2 mm gaps which some of the Brisk plugs have, the increased gap merely raises the voltage at which the plug fires, in the case of the Brisk plugs it is around 20kv
 
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