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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Will "new" Husky make parts for "old" Husky?

firerider

firerider

Husqvarna
AA Class
I bought one of the last Italian made Husky TE449's and was wondering if KTM plans on making parts available to the buyers of pre 2014 bikes? Should I stock up on common items like oil filters, air filters, brake pads, etc. before they decide to cater to the new bikes? So far Halls has been a great source for parts but what about 5 years down the road? Don't want to sound like a half empty glass but just want to keep this great machine in good working order.
 
KTM is legally forced to manufacture spare parts for at least 10 years (they are currently negotiating with Rotax and other suppliers). So you don't have to stock up. However accessories and such are cancelled as soon as possible. Those are only available as long as the stock lasts.
So no worries there. :)
And after those 10 years you might be able to get some parts from SWM haha!

Erik
Italhusky.com
 
Erik Italhusky said:
KTM is legally forced to manufacture spare parts for at least 10 years
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I have heard this before but never seen proof of it and they can also list stuff on backorder for ever. I have a TE511 I don't plan on getting rid of so will also be in the same boat. Not scared, sure I can make it work. The motor is around in various forms and I have yet to break or crack any of the stock plastic which I find very duable due to its design.
 
firerider said:
I bought one of the last Italian made Husky TE449's and was wondering if KTM plans on making parts available to the buyers of pre 2014 bikes? Should I stock up on common items like oil filters, air filters, brake pads, etc. before they decide to cater to the new bikes?
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I was doing maintenance on my son's 511 for a while... before he moved to Portland. I'm saying this because I can't remember all the maintenance issues- but they were minor.

All of the items you mentioned are commercial-off-the-shelf stuff mostly used on other models & makes (and the airfilter you could make easily). Basically, you probably don't have a worry about the controls, wheels, brakes, suspension. Things I would be worried about would be stuff like the torque limiter, clutch plates, built-to-spec electronics etc; find out now if any other machines uses 'em.

The other thing I would do is buy a spare set of plastic (well, at least the side panel thingys) and put the best pair aside for the future (maybe the rear fender too... that's pretty unique). Think about a spare seat or seat base, which might be hard to get in the future but are real cheap now (new or used).

The header tank is a pretty weird item; I'm guessing the fuel pump might be a one-off so do some research. Speaking of header: sometimes replacing a crushed header pipe is a pain because a new one is hard to find or fab.

Weirdly, pistons on deprecated bikes seem to be available most of the time; cranks/rods less so but probably not a worry. Transmission- who knows, but the beemer one seems to be around.

If you think you won't keep the bike more than, say 5-6 years... I would not worry one bit.
 
Like I said, in the race yesterday some spaz on a KTM looped out on the big hill on the track portion and slammed into me anda course worker. Broke the side plastic and radiator plastic cover. Already found some replacements, including the factory plastics with the graphics molded in.
 
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