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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rainy Day Blues

columbia510

columbia510

Husqvarna
AA Class
My riding buddy who has a new 310te and me with my 450 went rain riding yesterday. After thirty miles of epic singletrack and onto a fast fire road that had multiple shallow puddles that were at times the width of the road and 30 feet long. Fast big long wheelies with a wet smile:p.

Soon after my bike would pop and die. It would start then die once I clicked the bike in gear. Other times it would run and get me going for no more than a minute then pop and die again. If the bike was able to go for the full minute, I would have to wait for 10-15 minutes to get it to light up. If I kicked, I would get better results in the bike starting.

The ride ended up with me pushing/coasting/getting towed my bike a few miles in the rain many miles in the forest many miles from home and its getting late and cold. Some guy in a pickup truck was picking up his buddy's bike that he stashed in the forest after his buddy crashed and hurt himself and was in the hospital, and gave us a ride back. Karma is good.

I think the bike got to wet in the day of rain riding. My air filter was a little wet but not drenched after the ride. Maybe the filter got to wet or some wires somewhere got wet. Has anybody waterproofed their new 4-stroke Husky's?
 
I never did any thing to intentionally focus on waterproofing my 09TE450. My airbox is stock. I have a stock killswitch. I protected many wires at the fork tube and behind the light shroud- which may have some benifits if wires were able to wear through and short.

I have crossed creeks and shallow rivers, ridden through deep washouts and puddles, and have ridden days upon days in rain. I have not had any running issues. The only problem I had was my stock odo shorted internally from water damage. The only symptom With the replacement speedo a Trailtech Vector in the rain is that it doesn't like to adjust milage as well in the rain. But that's it.

All I can guess is its electrical- a short- or possibly a bad coil connection, or your spark plug cap is starting to short to the cylinder wall. When mine started to go bad- it was more pronounced when dirt was caked around the area of the spark plug cap....
 
I remember someone having similar problems a while back with their bike doing almost the same thing. Except this was after a good power washing. If I remember correctly it came down to some wires getting wet. Maybe around the dash?:excuseme: Maybe try searching and using "washing" or "after washing" in your search. Good luck.
 
i've had tons of issues with wet bikes that have a lot of electrical acc's. ya gotta water proof swtiches, connectors, computers etc. most owners manuals even suggest covering the bar, air filter etc when washing with plastic bags, et al.

disconnect your negative cable, remove your switch gear, odo etc and let it dry out or speed the process with a hairdryer on LOW. dont get your odo/computer hot.

water on your filter is BAD. if your filter got wet, service it.

sometimes the issues will clear up once things dry out. sometimes you need to go in and cleawn the corrosion out. there's various ways of water proofing your bike using grease, silicone, that self-fusing 3M tape (forgot the name) etc. before attmepting to do this though make sure everything is bone dry so you dont lock in moisture that causes corrosion and gremlins.
 
How about the huge gaping hole in the airbox from the midpipe. I lost a fenderbolt a few rides back and just replaced the bolt without looking for other issues that might have surfaced. Nah, that couldn't be the culprit.

I guess I'll be looking for an airbox.


And thank you all for the great info on this subject.
 
been there!

easy fix with some alluminum/tin sheet, rivets and hi-temp rtv. save ya a ton of bucks. :thumbsup: check out a restaurant supply store for all kinds of stainless/alloy widgets in various thickness and sizes. you'll find stuff in those places that'll make the light bulb in yer head come on for projects you havent even started yet! .... :busted: one could darn near build a complete rocket or mini-sub from all the spun stuff and sheet goodies in there. :thumbsup:
 
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