• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC Blue radiator braces coming soon

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Awesome new section Coffee! I like the blue to designate the difference between Italian and Austrian Husky's. Good call.

I just wanted to let the new Austrian husky owners know that we will have blue radiator braces and guards available pretty soon for the new blue and yellow Husky's. We will also have bare aluminum versions available also which should be available in about 2 weeks.

We will also be offering the same range of products for the new Austrian Husky's as we currently offer for the Italian bikes. Clutch covers, case savers, disc guards and the brake pedal tips that have gotten very good reviews from MXA. Several products are already in some stage of design or production, so we hope to be able to release quite a few goodies this year for the new breed of Husky's.

ohh yeah, every order gets a free coozie!

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I have the "7602 Blue braces and front guards" on my 15" FE 501. I had them installed when the bike was brand new by Bills MC Plus.

I have thrashed the bike through the desert brush several times for over 450 miles. Many times blazing my own trails to get back to a known path or single track.

I don't even have a mark on the "7602 radiator braces and guards". They are stellar and pretty much make the radiators near indestructible. The frames wrap all the way around the radiators and the stock fan mounts directly and can still be used. I love them. Front grills can be removed and the stock louvers can still be used if you wish also.

As a testament to their toughness. I recently hooked and ripped back one of the radiator shrouds about 5 or 6" on a branch from a mesquite tree. That branched snapped right off and got me in the knee pretty good and pulled my leg back. I had on my MSR Reflex Knee guards. So no damage to me. I pulled leaves out of the split panel and inspected everything else out on the trail. Just damaged plastic and kept on riding.

I fixed and repaired the panel already as soon as I got home, using Gel type crazy glue and then a good layer of Gorilla glue on the backside.

I have since already bought an extra set of OEM replacement front shrouds but I'll keep running the original plastics until they are pretty well trashed and toasted.

Even after this run in with the heavy brush incident, Not a single mark on my left side "7602 radiator guard". This branch would have destroyed the radiator.

Look if you want good Radiator braces, get the "7602's".
 
Is there a change in the specs from the '15s, or have the braces been changed/updated for all?
 
Alias7 said:
Is there a change in the specs from the '15s, or have the braces been changed/updated for all?
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Our braces are unchanged. They will fit all 2015 models and most 2016 bikes. The 2016 Husky FE and TE models are mostly unchanged from 2015. The 2016 FC models and TC125 are all new though.
 
7602 braces are about $95 bucks, add $10 for anodized colors. Front brush guards for them are about $35 bucks add $5 for anodized colors. They are worth every penny you spend, Trust me.

7602's page is up. I just checked it myself. Click on the 7602 name then click their icon from the CH sponsor section from this sites homepage.

He has them for 2002 to 2014's that should fit your 2014 310 and of course for the newer Austrian 2014 thru 2016 Husky's. I run them and they are the best out there, IMO.
 
I have had these on 2 bikes and they are very good. My 2014 501 has these(with OEM louvers) and has 140 hours of tough off road with plenty of impact testing... Hehe. You do need to remove the radiators to install them so plan ahead. It would be a great time to change or upgrade your hoses and coolant while installing the braces.
 
"+1" on the above from "reveille".

I run the slotted brush guard covers on the front of mine. I sort of have to. You can see them. That happens to be my bike on "7602s website" in the picture on the left where you click "Husqvarna accessories".

I did all the hoses about a month later with a thermostat delete hose kit on mine. When I did the hoses I flushed the system and went to the Waterless X2 coolant from ZipTy.

The 7602 guards I had installed at purchase by "Bills MC Plus" when it was brand new. 60 hours and 1150 miles later through some terrible tight brush and high AZ desert conditions and the radiators are in absolutely perfect condition.

Without the thermostat, it works fine now, warms up just fine too. Without the worry of the factory cheap black plastic thermostat cracking. Like just about everything made of plastic does here in AZ from exposure.

Even though it's cooler weather right now the fan barely even goes on, unless I get into some really slow tight single track.

The fan ran a hell of a lot less during the past summer months too after removal of the thermostat. A lot less than when it was still on the bike. That's a fact.
 
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