• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Submerged 08TE450 wont start

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Pete

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi there, the wife binned her 08 TE450 in the river on the weekend. Kicked it slowly and it had hydraulic lock, pulled out the plug, cleaned it, run the water out and it started off the button. Later that day started it off the button plenty of times.

Now the button is totally dead. Can start off the kicker.

Before i tackle it this weekend, has anyone has this before and can point me in the right direction?
 
I had that happen on my KTM and it turned out the starter relay had gone bad. Maybe some water got down in the starter relay or maybe the fuses went bad.
 
That's got to be a cool- having a girlfriend that is even in a situation where her bike gets soaked in a river...
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you sir are respected....

right- I'd clean the kill/start switch (take appart and spray with electric contact cleaner and use compressed air). Check/ clean fuses and relay.

But first and formost <(maybe you did this already.. if so:
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)> change the oil and clean all the filters and screens- and air filter + clean inside the air manifold and ensure there's no water or crap in there to get sucked in. Run it (since it starts with kicker) ride the bike and get it at running temps for a half hour at least. Then change the oil again (while hot) and run it- ensuring there's no evidence of water in the oil (milky in site glass). continue till confident. I'd use Rotella T (dino/white bottle) due to cost just to flush the system with some quick oil changes. 9/10 your electricals may dry out on their own. But you don't need your valves rusting or your bearings taking extra abuse.
 
Its very cool. My good mate and i ride our whole lives and we both married girls who wanted to ride...his wife rides 09 wr450. On this ride they did 7hrs on the bikes while we 4x4ed a long trek through the hills, carried fuel for them etc.

I will take all of the above advice and get this done on Saturday. Oil isnt milky now, i was standing there and got the bike out quickly (5sec?), but i didnt consider any internal rust from small amounts of water.
 
All sounds good! But I will stick to my kickstart only 150 two stroke! I know with snowmobiles when you submerge them you want to do everything you can to dry them out. I have heard of guys putting them in there garage and running a few forced air (Nepco) heaters. Then pulling and cleaning electrical connections etc...
 
A few basic things to check:
  • Battery is really good (if unsure e-start the bike from at least a 50 Amp. battery charger)
  • Starter is good (pull it off the bike and run it from the battery);
  • All connections and clutch interlock buzz out (you'll need a schematic, use a continuity tester, clean connectors with contact cleaner, properly re-mate);
  • Remove and replace the relay (about $40, so do this last).
We're counting on you!
 
I found i had 3 broken wires. One was the clutch sensor/switch. 2 on the back of the ignition. The ignition itself doest appear serviceable but it is. I pulled it apart and soldered the 2 wires back on and taped it back together.

Not sure how we managed to get so many broken wires and why we could button start it after the river crossing and not later...cant imagine how the wire was busted after that.

Changed the oil, plug and cleaned filter and its all back to normal :)
 
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