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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

510 TE, washed, wouldn't start/stay running

S

Squidman

Husqvarna
B Class
Hi all, I'm pretty sure I've seen similar posted on here, but can't find thread so if someone could point me there so I don't reinvent the wheel, great!

I have a 2010 510TE, Took it for a rip today. And the end of the day while ridding home I swung by the local car wash and hosed her down. I was careful to not power was near the electronics above and below the gas tank. When I got done, she'd start, sputter, then stall. If I got her to start and got on the throttle, she'd stall. I pulled the air filter to see if it was full of water, it wasn't. Repeated starting attempts, still no go. Tried on and off for 30 minutes then got pissed off and started pushing her home (2 miles away) about 15 minutes down the road I tried her again, she sputtered quite a bit but stayed running, I cranked on the throttle and kept my rpms high. 5 or so minutes of that, and I was ridding home. By the time I got her in the garage, she was back to normal. Any ideas what I did?
 
+2 i had this just last week... first time in over a year of ownership.. took it out dried it and all fine.. does it seep into the head through the seal & mix with the first bit of seal or just sit at the top and short out.. hard to tell when I took it out because it could have run down as i undid it..

just in case you dont know ( i didnt) there is a little hole just below the the spark plug blow some air into it just before you remove the plug as its a little air channel to the spark plug to blow any debris out to stop iy falling into the head as you remove the spark plug.
 
andy j said:
+2 i had this just last week... first time in over a year of ownership.. took it out dried it and all fine.. does it seep into the head through the seal & mix with the first bit of seal or just sit at the top and short out.. hard to tell when I took it out because it could have run down as i undid it..

just in case you dont know ( i didnt) there is a little hole just below the the spark plug blow some air into it just before you remove the plug as its a little air channel to the spark plug to blow any debris out to stop iy falling into the head as you remove the spark plug.
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I didn't know that and it's really useful
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That little hole is supposed to drain water way from the plug areas sealing surface, but they don't seem to work that great. Probable dirt in the hole. But, water sits rigth around the base of the plug and shorts it to ground. I have leaned the bike over, removed the tank vent hose and blown into the area to dry it enough to get it to run and dry itself out once it's heated up.

The vaccume nozzle at our local car wash is small enough to allow pulling the plug wire and stick it over the plug and suck the water away.
 
I think it was my old GSXR750? that had a rubber bung/plug moulded to the plug leads. As you pushed the caps home the bung seated into the head after it. It pretty much stopped water and gunk entering the plug recess in the head.
 
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