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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2008 Husky SMR450 Died on Me

J

jaro51

Husqvarna
A Class
OK, was running the SMR at the track last night and it just stopped on me. It appears it's an electrical issue but I'm not positive. I can hear and feel the fuel pump solenoid activate when the ignition is turned on but the fuel pump doesn't spin. Bike will crank over but won't fire since there is no fuel. Didn't pull the plug to see if it was sparking. I only have about 12 hrs on it and have never messed with the electrics but I looked around for a few minutes last night and found 5 fuses (2 big 20A ones off of the + battery terminal on left side of bike and 3 smaller ones on right side of bike) and they were all OK. All connections appear to be OK. Is there something I'm missing or do i need to pull everything apart and start looking for a bad connection somewhere?

The bike didn't sputter or hiccup at all, it was instant and terminal for the night! Mind you the track night ended only a few minutes later as a guy on an SXV550 endoed at the end of the front straight and broke his femur. I feel pretty lucky I just have to find an electrical gremlin rather than heal a femur...
 
I'm glad you did not break a femur too.

Based on this description I would take the tank off and look at the fuel pump:
I can hear and feel the fuel pump solenoid activate when the ignition is turned on but the fuel pump doesn't spin. Bike will crank over but won't fire since there is no fuel.
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Pulled the pump out today and found a broken ground wire connection. Plugged the pump in, turned the key on and held the wire to the connection and the pump spun. Will buy a new connector and put it back together tomorrow and it should be good to go.

Thanks for all of the help!
 
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