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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE449 Starter not working

Doug Piper

Doug Piper

Husqvarna
A Class
Quick history, rode bike for 3 hours through water mud etc. Got home washed bike, started bike and run for a few minutes. parked bike for one week and went to start bike nothing, solenoid not working either. Ignition on, lights on still nothing.
 
Water could have dripped into a spot that drained the battery, lights will work, but not enough voltage for starter. Measure voltage with meter, should be 12.6v or higher. Then measure when starter button pressed, should not drop below 11.8, if it does, Put charger on and try again later.
 
Common for starter button to become corroded and fail. Uncommon for starter to fail.
 
I have a date with a can of De-oxit this weekend to make sure everything is in order myself.
 
Hey bud its most likely the relays. Tap each of the 3 relay with a hard wrench lightly after priming the ignition by hitting the start button. If the lights all come on and fuel pump kicks on then start tapping each relay and then periodically attempt starting it.

You likely have a stuck relay. Pull them out 1x1 and clean contacts and use OXGAURD lightly on each connection, then liquid electrical tape on the backside of the connectors, around the relay and then wrap with electrical tape.

I have never had mine in the muck but have washed it a few times and after washing my relays would stick. Upon dissasembly the inside of the relay (used a dremel btw) was corroding from steam rising from my header wrap. I would wash bike, header wrap would get wet so I would let it idle and let the steam pour off.....well steam gets in where normal moisture/water never would....yep inside the relays. After cleaning them all and taping/electrical liquid tape, and ox gaurd on the terminals. No issues. Mine were sticking on, like leaving the key on for hours at a time, thank god my pump didnt die and I was able to fix it.


Thats my story. Try it.
 
Thanks chaps nothing to do with the relay's in the end, the 30amp fuse under the solenoid had come loose so not supplying power to the ignition side !!
 
Ohhb I had thought you checked that. Very good to hear it's working. I will make sure mines in good shape.
 
I have a TE511. There is one fuse up by the headlight (10a?) and one (30a) under seat. Are there more?
 
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