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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'05 TC-450 decided not to start after a great ride in the woods. Left me walking 3 miles pushing.

Kyleot

Kyleot

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hello everybody, I have had my '05 Husky for about 4 years now with very little trouble. While out riding in the woods two weekends ago I decided to pull off the trail and take a break for some water. Sat for about 10 minutes, then went to restart and she wouldn't fire. After pushing the bike for over 2 miles, I finally got back to the trail head and loaded up. Once home I started troubleshooting. The starter is working good, everything sounds normal... Once the engine gets to its normal place to start up in its cycle, the starter sounds like its almost moving a bit too fast, and the engine never does start up. Not a backfire, pop, or snort at all, but the exhaust is getting warm. I have taken everything apart and cleaned it with the exception of the electrical wiring and the bottom end. Carb looks good, plug is sparking good and has okay gap. I even took the starter motor out and everything looks good there. Removed cover from top end as I thought maybe a valve was stuck open or spring broken, but it all checks out. I have good compression also... Any ideas on what could be causing this? Is it possible that the timing is off on the bottom end somehow? I verified good timing on the top end. Any thoughts or help is appreciated!
 
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