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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'04 SM450R shift position sensor question

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Husqvarna
AA Class
UPDATE Question: Would a defective shift position sensor keep bike from starting? I put a meter on the single lead wire coming from it and the other to ground- I get no continuity either in neutral or any gear selected?
I did find this- it says even if gear shift sensor is bad ,cdi will still allpow operation of vehicle:
"In the C.D.I. system the electrical energy generated by the alternator charges the condenser. The energy is released in a single surge at the specified ignition timing and the current flows through the primary side of the ignition coil. A high voltage is induced in the secondary windings of the ignition coil, resulting a strong spark between the ignition spark plug gap. The digital electronic ignition allows to change the timing curve according with the following items: - ENGINE r.p.m.; - CARBURETOR THROTTLE VALVE POSITION SENSOR; - ENGAGED GEAR. This system allows to optimize the engine performances in every condition of employment. In case of throttle valve or transmission gear failure, the ignition is able to allow the use of the motorcycle however."
Since everything else checks out, it sounds if condenser could be bad but I can't find a way to test condenser
 
I have a defective gear sensor and bike does start/work.
I had a starting problem . . . no spark. It was the woodruff key! It took some time for me to figure that out.
Good Luck
 
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