• 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

TE 511 Header pipe glowing red hot on warm up?

SDPUTTER

SDPUTTER

Husqvarna
AA Class
Question: Is it normal for the header pipe to glow bright red hot after idling for a minute after cold start-up?

Background: Bought this 2011 new a couple of weeks ago. Has 140 miles on it now. This is only my 2nd 4-stroke (only owned 2-smokers, besides the Raptor 700 that I own which has been flawless for 4 years), So I'm pretty clueless. I have the loop wire plugged in (Went to race map II with the stock muffler). And I only noticed the header glowing last night (when it was kind of dark in the garage) when I slipped-on a FMF Powercore 4 muffler. I took the FMF off and put the stock muffler back on and same thing. This bike has always warmed up really quickly (top of Radiators barely touchable) after a minute or so and I'm thinking the header has always glowed hot since new. Only have one 70 mile ride which seemed fine. Is this normal? Thanks for any input.

BTW: I've come to find out the dealer doesn't know that much about this bike compared to what is on this website. You guys are great!
 
I pretty sure its normal mate, I hear alot of bikes do it when its left to idle!
Get the dealer to check the valve clearence, might need a shim up.
 
It's totally normal ! My 2012 does the same as well as all of my 4 t bikes, I can light a cigaret off mine...... As you ride the red will go away as the wind blows on it..... Burg, DRZ , CRF , KTM they all do it
 
Rearwheelin said:
It's totally normal ! My 2012 does the same as well as all of my 4 t bikes, I can light a cigaret off mine...... As you ride the red will go away as the wind blows on it..... Burg, DRZ , CRF , KTM they all do it
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Thanks for the reassurnace!
 
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