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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TXC or TC 449

racer726

racer726

Husqvarna
AA Class
Does anyone own a TC or TXC 449 that lives in Michigan? I'd love to test one out, but I haven't seen one in person yet.
 
TXC449 in Cali. I came off of an '07 TC450. The bike rips with flying colors. Taller gearing and an extra gear for our wide open deserts. The TC just did not cut it out here.
 
I live here in California as well and after owning the '10 TXC 450 ( carbureted ) I was wondering how the EFI bike runs, any fueling issues?
 
016ms said:
I live here in California as well and after owning the '10 TXC 450 ( carbureted ) I was wondering how the EFI bike runs, any fueling issues?
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I have the TE511 with slightly different EFI but it works great. Even more amazing with my new JD EFI tuner. I would not worry about the EFI on this model, real good stuff.
 
I had the '10 TXC450 carb. as well. The bikes are two very different animals. The EFI is spot on as far as throttle response in any gear at any rpm. My '10 never ran right and was in the shop more than on the dirt, so I gave up and traded up to an '11. The guys at tri county powersports in simi helped out alot and ultimately I am very happy with the TXC449. Fueling has never been an issue. I fuel up to the top of the tank, look down into the second tank for any gaps and its full as well. Maybe I fuel up too slow, not an issue either way. I think people hipe up the oddball features to be far more complicated than they really are. The 449 is THE Euro bike to own!
 
cptnandre said:
I think people hipe up the oddball features to be far more complicated than they really are. The 449 is THE Euro bike to own!
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My feeling exactly. Fantastic bike. 1750 miles and counting on my 511. The JD tuner makes a perfect running bike run perfecter and has what feels like 3-5 HP across the board.
 
Motosportz said:
My feeling exactly. Fantastic bike. 1750 miles and counting on my 511. The JD tuner makes a perfect running bike run perfecter and has what feels like 3-5 HP across the board.
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Kelly, just went to JD's website and they don't list anything for the 449/511. Do you have a part number?
 
cptnandre said:
I had the '10 TXC450 carb. as well. The bikes are two very different animals. The EFI is spot on as far as throttle response in any gear at any rpm. My '10 never ran right and was in the shop more than on the dirt, so I gave up and traded up to an '11. The guys at tri county powersports in simi helped out alot and ultimately I am very happy with the TXC449. Fueling has never been an issue. I fuel up to the top of the tank, look down into the second tank for any gaps and its full as well. Maybe I fuel up too slow, not an issue either way. I think people hipe up the oddball features to be far more complicated than they really are. The 449 is THE Euro bike to own!
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Good to hear about the EFI TXC, I should be buying one later this fall. I've bought 3 Huskys from Tri-County and they have always been very reasonable with pricing and having the shop so close by makes things really convenient.
 
racer726 said:
Does anyone own a TC or TXC 449 that lives in Michigan? I'd love to test one out, but I haven't seen one in person yet.
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I'm not nearby, so I can't help much, but we do have the TXC511, and two TE510's; one with Mikuni fuel injection, and the other with the Keihin carb.

My son just did a ride from Phoenix to SoCal and back this week, about 1000 miles. He just got home about two hours ago (with Baja Design HID lighting). He took the 2010 TE510, with 16 liter/4.2 gallon Safari tank. The last time he rode the TXC in June, he got helicoptered out with a broken femur, plus a few other bones, so I'll be curious to see how much he rides that bike in the future !!!

If you're comparing the TC and TXC, I can tell you that we strongly considered the TC. It has 13:1 compression, vice 12:1 on the TXC, different camshafts, different ECU (for ignition / fuel mapping), and a different throttle body "intake" manifold (the TXC is split, TC is not).

That's it. The rest is about the same. The TXC will come with the TC type muffler in a box, and have the plugged up TXC muffler with spark arrestor on the bike. We never ran this muffler. Transmission is the same. Fuel tanks the same.

We chose the TXC over the TC mostly because in California, the TC is not eligible for the "green sticker" for use on public lands.
 
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