• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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, te450 starter

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dbldtop

Husqvarna
AA Class
I am on a riding trip now, and my starter makes a grinder noise and does not drive the piston. Is this a starter replacement or something else?
 
Does it have a manual compression release? If so, do you use it? If it has one, what happens when you fully engage the release and hit the button?

First thing I would do is lean the bike way over on its left side. Then pull the clutch cover off, and with a flashlight, look behind the clutch basket at the eleven o'clock position and see if the gear train spins when you hit the button. If the gears move and the clutch basket doesn't, the likely culprit is the sprag bearing on the crankshaft. If nothing moves, put the cover back on, stand the bike back up, pull the starter out and look at the teeth on it. The whole process shouldn't take more than 20 minutes.
 
Thanks for the reply, I just got back home from my trip. I learned that my starter gear/shaft is broken. ( I called Halls cycle and the tech their walked me through my experience to the point that he's fairly certain that my starter gear is broke) Further, I tried to kick start my bike and the kick start shaft is now broken. I kick with no recoil. I bumped started the bike to get back to camp and I heard a grinding noise on the right side of the bike. I fear that a part broke off from my kick starter and is now floating around. I am bringing the bike into the shop this week.
Thanks again Jonxx, My bike has been great to me, just change the oil/air on a regular basis and after 7000+ miles, this is the first "Major" repair.
 
Oh no :( I'm sorry to hear that. There was an update on the kickstart shaft and gears on that generation of 450s and 510s, yours may not have received the updated kickstarter group internals.
 
There is an updated kick start shaft and boss for the 06-07 models but most dealers do not know about it and most people just order the same old shaft because it is cheaper than buying the shaft and boss.
 
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