• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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Radiator braces, who has them and who wishes they did?

My Braces after i Crashed and smashed the left Radiator .. The braces are bend, but i could ride back to car without leaking radiator.
I straighten the whole lot out and back on the back.Braces1.jpgBraces2.jpg
 
My Braces after i Crashed and smashed the left Radiator .. The braces are bend, but i could ride back to car without leaking radiator.
I straighten the whole lot out and back on the back.
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Wow! Now that's a twisted radiator and braces. I hate to think what the radiator would have looked like without any protection.

Maybe we should have some sort of contest for who can post up pics of the most mangled brace and radiator.
 
Just remember that if you don't install braces and you bend your radiators you will most likely not be able to install braces due to bent warped conditions. Put them on when you buy the bike. Its not the cost of replacing the radiators. Its being stuck in bf Egypt with a wadded up cooling system that would ruin your day.
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Good points. Fitting braces on a set of twisted rads can be a very frustrating experience. I don't look at braces as a money saver, but more of a prevention against walking xx miles after your bike lost all its coolant.
 
I like to run the guards to prevent sticks from poking holes (has happened twice and ruined rides). The braces I can do with out, the radiators I have bent never leaked so I never even had them straightened. There are a lot of trees and brush on most of my rides.
 
These modern 4 strokes are so high strung and seem to be so sensitive to temp that the aluminum guards don't give me a good feeling in terms of airflow. Most of my riding is in tight technical single track, slow going. That said I could prolly put them on the 250 (it has a fan) but I'm definitely staying with the louvers on the 450 (no fan) to let as much air through as possible. Here's the 250 with the louvers off. I really like these braces.

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Correct me if im wrong but well designed metal guards I.e stamped Aluminium only reduces airflow by a vary small amount. The manufacturer "Force" states less 10% I believe. . A radiator with a hole reduces cooling efficiency by 100%. Ive ran them on all of my water cooled dirt bikes in hot aussie summers in single track. The few overheating issues ive had have not been related to guards.
 
duggoey said:
Correct me if im wrong but well designed metal guards I.e stamped Aluminium only reduces airflow by a vary small amount. The manufacturer "Force" states less 10% I believe. . A radiator with a hole reduces cooling efficiency by 100%. Ive ran them on all of my water cooled dirt bikes in hot aussie summers in single track. The few overheating issues ive had have not been related to guards.
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agree to that. No issue on my bike. If you go singles with very low speed , than you might overheat. But with the Huskys and a standard Fan , no issue at all.
 
duggoey said:
Correct me if im wrong but well designed metal guards I.e stamped Aluminium only reduces airflow by a vary small amount. The manufacturer "Force" states less 10% I believe. . A radiator with a hole reduces cooling efficiency by 100%. Ive ran them on all of my water cooled dirt bikes in hot aussie summers in single track. The few overheating issues ive had have not been related to guards.
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Cool (no pun intended). I didn't know that, I've never seen a spec on temp differences. Like I said, just looking at them didn't give me a good feeling.

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I run the enduro engineering set up on both...the 250 and the 310 as it allows me to retain the stock louvers. I am a huge proponent of the stock louvers especially on muddy days and super slow riding (and that's what we do the most of). Both bikes have a fan, and both bikes need that fan :)
 
The B&B units are very solid and well built. I run them on my TC449 and TXC511. All Extruded aluminum not some crappy mesh or laser cut sheet metal.
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rabskyline said:
Problem is, how many times have you came across 1/2" to 1" thick branches stumps sticking up at radiator height and going through rads or between radiator and shroud ?
For me, regularly in beerburrum, glasshouse.
First ride saw my shrouds broken on the 250r, thumb thickness, straight through it , snapped !

Cooling fan and front grills a must for me.
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I ride the same area and couldn't agree more. They have saved me more than once.
 
I also have the Enduro Engineering braces with stock shrouds... I'm not sure that a straight stick right into the plastic shrouds would be the best, but so far so good. I also have heated up the "tips" of my top plastic and bent it in, as well as zip tied my top plastic to the black tank guards for extra strength.
 
Does anyone know if 7602 braces fit with Mylers Rads? Mylers website states that only Bullet Proof Design Braces work with their rads, but, I can't find them for my year te510.
 
ss.backer said:
Does anyone know if 7602 braces fit with Mylers Rads? Mylers website states that only Bullet Proof Design Braces work with their rads, but, I can't find them for my year te510.
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We have had several customers fit our braces with oversized rads. I think most of them were the chinese ebay rads. I was told by several customers that they fit, but it is very snug. I wouldn't feel good telling you that ours will fit with no issues. The BPD braces are a front only brace, so I would imagine they fit with no issues.
 
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