• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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TE450 mileage

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SFTE450

Husqvarna
AA Class
What kind of mileage are folks normally getting in offroad conditions on the carbed 06 TE450? At 50 miles this past weekend, my stock 2.4 US gal tank seemed very low. While I hadnt hit reserve yet, seemed like I wasnt far from it. That seemed to indicate I was getting considerably less than 30mpg. Does that seem right? Definately no race pace, but lugging my 220lbs up and down the mountains at Stonyford. I had recently rejetted the bike again, but I could have sworn I was getting closer to 30-40mpg the last time I paid attention a few years back. Granted that was baja trail riding with less elevation changes/climbs. The bike does run well IMO.
 
On my carbed 07 TE 450 I get around 25 - 35 MPG depending on how much I twist the throttle. Most of my riding is mountain roads, trails and fire breaks. I have played w/the jetting and it runs well but it doesn't seem to change the mileage much. When I changed the leak jet it seemed to make the most mileage difference. If I stay high speed pavement or desert is does improve a bit.
The best improvement as far as range is concerned was the IMS 3.4 gal tank!
 
There is another recent thread with similar answers. Our '06 and '07 TE450 bikes get 41mpg at sea level on mixed trail and pavement at home here, and both have 3.4 gallon tank. We get aboput 3.2 gallons usable out of them.

In Moab last month (4000-6500ft), one bike got 118 (37 - more dirt) and 132 (41 - more pavement) miles to empty. Difference was more pavement on one ride some possible cap vent spillage on a tumble for the 118 mile to empty day (White Rim round trip, 127 miles total). Both have JD jet kits. '06 has 3,600 miles, the '07 has about 1,000 now on the odos. Teh stock '07 reserve position on the stock petcock did not seem to do much. Stranded lots of gas in the tank.

Pure single track will take them down to 32-36 though. We put the 3.4 tank on the '07 just before Moab. Good thing we did though I had my TE610 in Moab with 5 gallon IMS as a super tanker. Good for over 200 miles and for refueling the 450.

This Moab single track gift to teh '07 will reduce your mileage however. I advise you do not try this at home. Oil gush wiped off to protect the mechanically squeemish :-)
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I had a TE 450 (06) For 4 years. Generally got 110/1115 kms befor the reserve was needed Thats abot 75 miles. I am circa 250 lbs
 
Ok, my '05 TE510 is exactly a 450, but should be usefull for mpg comparison
Very first tank on my bike we did a 38 mile mtn trail, topped off tank was a bit worried when it took 1.9gal to fill for a sickening 20mpg.
Since then it's been rejetted for my area (varies from 2,800 ft to 10,000ft, but mostly 4,000-6,500ft) and hammering the throttle a little bit on open trails with long loose full throttle climbs I can still get down to 25-26mpg. One of those type rides I hit reserve on stock tank right at 50 miles.

On the high end, I've done a couple dirt road dual-sport type rides, staying low to mid rpm, typically with a run to top end to get combwebs out and see mid 40's, my best tank so far being 47.9mpg

For the other 90% of my riding, which is high desert trail (3rd - mid 5th gear) and/or mtn single track trails (low 2nd - upper 3rd gear), I will get between 31 and 35mpg.
Also running an IMS 3.4 gal tank, and +/-250lb ride weight........I will use 30mpg as an low end estimate when planning my fuel needs for a ride, which means I'm not concerned until we're planning on near, or just over 100 mile loops.
 
I have an IMS tank, generally dont use it as most of the loops I ride are less than 50 miles. Only use it on long dual sport or mellow jeep trail rides. That and I would need to mount my fan onto the front of the radiator. But it sounds like my mileage is within the norm, maybe just a little low (I will be revisit my jetting again). Stonyford was lots of long loose climbs and single track. Last time I paid close attention was baja and that was crusing double track through the desert where I got closer to 40mpg. However I now know that the energizer bunny, aka woodschick and Eric like to make much longer loops on the single track, so I will have to come prepared with the IMS tank mounted next time.
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Thanks for the replies!

CJ
 
I have a 2010 FI TE450, and get 50 - 55 miles on a stock UK 7.2 Litre tank This works out at around 35 MPG (UK) or 27 MPG (US). When I say that's what I get, I mean it runs out at this milage! It does have the race mode 'power up kit' on it, and I never run the mapping on the gentle setting.
Does anyone know weather running the gentle mapping affects the fuel consumption?
I did consider the IMS tank, but it's not a good fit, (having to ditch or modify the side panels) so have just got used to finding petrol stations, which is not too much of a problem in the UK!

Bruce.
 
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