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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

So I was just curious

thehusk

thehusk

Husqvarna
A Class
If anyone is keeping count, I tend to ask alot of weird questions. So my weird question for the day is. What makes a husky vibrate?
In theory a motor is a motor is a motor. So besides the lack of a vibration damper on certain models, what causes this? I read that someone had or has dealing with a dampered/ damperless bike………anyway and there is no real difference. If that is the case what makes the DRZ such a smooth motor? If it’s because it has a V/D then wouldn’t a damper help a husky? Or is the design of the damper itself just that much better on the DRZ?
I realize every bike has its own quirks and this is probably a lost cause question. But as I said I ask a lot of questions. Just humor me with a couple responses
 
Some bikes have really large counter balance weights on the crank, some don't. Husqvarna motors rev fast due in part because they are short stroke motors, but also because they have light cranks. So they vibrate more.
 
So basically in the design of the motor parts as I suspected. So when it comes time to rebild my 07 TE450, would there be anyway to balance the motor with the damper? Doing a 510 build, or a 530 kit? Husky and Athena are teh only two people that make parts for our bikes? I'll have to look into this more.
 
You can buy the factory counter balancer that is used in the SM engines. The bearing bosses are already in your motor.
 
that was already on the checklist of items to do when the time comes. I am also planning on making it a 510 and possibly a 530. I still have a while to reaserach and decide on that. My thinking is if i already have the case apart and am doing a rebuild what else can I do to make the bike better. A few extra bucks to maybe balance the rotating assy to the counter balancer (if at all possible) to a closer weight tolerance.

Hobbies always tend to be more expensive for me cause i can't leave well enough alone.
 
rancher1 said:
You can buy the factory counter balancer that is used in the SM engines. The bearing bosses are already in your motor.
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Is this hard to install? what would be approximate cost? just curious... but I could really use it in my TE510..
 
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