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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Pouring Out Gas

kylejdev

kylejdev

Husqvarna
C Class
Start by saying that I'm new to Husky, and even newer to the Cafe.

Recently bought an '07 smr510. Brought it home, changed the oil and rode it. Put 1500 miles on it with out a problem.

Coming in from a ride one day, it didn't want to idle. Didn't think much of it and put it in the garage. I took off the smog crap the next day, and tried starting it. It started but it took some effort. once it was running it would not idle, and seemed to be straining- sounded 'full'( really the best way i can describe it:confused:) so I let it die. Was on my way out so I figured I'd worry about it later.

Couple days later I walk into the garage and theres a puddle of gas on the floor. Took the carb out thinking the float was stuck. Cleaned it quick and put it back in. Drained the oil and sure enough, smelled like gas. New oil, start it up. The bike ran fine for about three seconds till gas started spewing out were the exhaust comes together. Then it died.

I'm going to take the carb out again and really look it over/ clean it and try again.

I searched around and found a post on TT similar to this, and someone replied mentioning a bent exhaust valve, along with carb issues. Can a bent or out of spec valve cause this?

Any input is appreciated.

Kyle
 
That seems very unlikely. More like a float adjustment problem, or something stuck in the float valve. Gas from the exhaust joints? I would find the answer before starting that bike again unless you want to have a bonfire. Danger Will Robinson.....
 
Still no luck. If I 'bench test' the carb, pushing the float up manually, it works as it should. But when I try it with the bowl on it just pours out once the bowl fills, as if the floats are stuck. I dont think there stuck, though its hard to tell with the bowl on, and they do float- I checked. I adjusted the float and still nothing.

I don't really know what else to look for
 
Gas out the exhaust pipe does sound a little weird ... That needle valve \ float issue usually drips gas out one of the CARB overflow lines ...
 
Thats what I thought. Is there there something else that would cause gas to just pour out of the carb itself?
 
kylejdev said:
Thats what I thought. Is there there something else that would cause gas to just pour out of the carb itself?
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Not that I know of ... but there is a 0ring on the needle valve(I think) that can cause gas to drip out slowly ... Nothing as bad as the floats sticking though ... I'll see if I can find the exact 0ring that caused mine to drip, but not really leak out the CARB over flow ...
 
I'll give it a try can't hurt. I looked at it and it seemed to be alright. I couldn't blow air through when tested, but it worth a shot.

I was going to buy one today just because i had it out but the local run-of-the-mill powersports dealer wasnt much help.

I'll let you know what happens, thanks
 
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