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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

06 450te, can it tractor??

C

Cruiser

Husqvarna
AA Class
My buddy rides an 06 TE 450,, mostly stock, came from Halls. In fact one of the guys from Halls ran it in a few races and "set it up".. but to me it is very odd.. He thinks its just how the husky is. It has no bottom end,, wants to stall if you lug it at all,, like it has no flywheel, headlights are dim too. I thought these should have a 80W stator? You have to run it more like a 2 stroker on crack.. I'm telling him its wrong.. Am I right? or am I biased? I have rode 510's that would chug around no issue,, and my KTM 450 will motor up a hill at a crawl.. his has a hard time on technical hills.. I told him a G2 throttle and FWW and re-jett to start.. what is all your opinions. My comparison is a 04 450exc and 03 625 sxc and even my GG 250 ec had more tractor capabilities.. I just think its setup..
 
I have a 2006 TE510 and it is happy at low speed. It will boil if there is not enough air flow. Is there any chance your buddies' TE450 has a dirty carb?
 
Ill have him pull the carb and check. It's entirely possible. Although he claims it has been this way since he got it a few years back. What is the hot ticket for jetting? Jd kit? We are at sea level to 3k feet.
I'll have him check the jets while carb is apart.
Thanks
 
^^What the other guys said^^ - also mine doesn't like having the idle speed set too low - it's much more responsive (and stall-proof) set to the top end of spec - about 1900 rpm. Worth investigating imo.
 
You didn't say what kind of racing it was set up for, but there may not have been much time spent on the low speed side It could be something as simple as the low speed mixture screw adjustment, pilot jet, or AP timing and squirt volume/intensity.
The needle (OBDVR) that Husky used for years in most FCR 41 carbs was notoriously lean. A JD kit is a good way to go if you don't want to spend alot of time trying different combinations. If you put the kit in and are still having trouble, James can probably steer you in the right direction.
My 05 TE 450 tractors around quite well.
 
my understanding it was run in some hare scrambles by a A or AA guy at halls.. supposed to be rejetted then.. My buddy is one of those who never touches anything on the bike.. so I'm going to have to help break him of that habit..
 
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