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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

08 SM 610 Turns over but no start.

Poor running and black crap in the filter before it crapped the bed would send me to the injector next. pardon my specific lack of knowledge with these bikes yet ( I've only had my 610 for 6 days, love it BTW ). Can you pull the injector from the throttle body? If ya can stuff the end in a plastic coke bottle and see what kind of volume and spray pattern you get when you try to start it. It really does sound like a clogged injector to me.

Please make sure you have a fire extinguisher ( preferably a halon and not the dry chem kind, they make such a mess ) right there and ready to go, you'll be atomizing fuel right next to a spark source, the chance for a fire doesn't get any better than that.

good luck.
 
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UPDATE: The fuel pump is the culprit. I was quoted $630 for a new pump. WTF?!?!?! For a fuel pump? I need a fuel pump obviously but are there any alternatives to a $630 bill? Anyone???
 
Can't do the link, but this is in the USA
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Thanks Gav & 1lunger!! I'll be picking the bike up from the shop today. I'll have to save both of those sellers to my favorites on E-Bay so I can pick a pump up sometime next week. Weather here in Washington is starting to turn. I'm sure I'll get some days here and there to ride after it's fixed.
 
I also came across this one : Link
Not sure if someone had brought one from this forum or another, but I bookmarked the site.

Hope you get back on the road soon !
Gav
 
OK so new pump is in. I got the one from California Cycleworks. The bike will start but it doesn't want to run inless I modulate the throttle. I can't rev it otherwise it stalls out. Almost like it's starving for fuel. Pops a little while I modulate the throttle. Doesn't seem to want to start when on full choke. 1/2 choke will get it to start. When I rev it, it immediately bogs down. Idles way below then dies if I let it go on it's own. Any ideas on what to look for next?
 
Have you checked the injector where the fuel goes in to see if its full of debris?

Maybe pull the injector from the throttle body and aim it in a water bottle and watch the flow when you crank the engine?


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Could be the CDI, My brothers KTM had a similar sounding issue where the bike would start, run up for a bit and the die.
He could even ride it for a little while, Warranty covered the repair for him.

If theres someone near with another Husky you could try swapping out the unit and see what result you have.
I say that as they aren't cheap.
 
Schneble73 said:
OK so new pump is in. I got the one from California Cycleworks. The bike will start but it doesn't want to run inless I modulate the throttle. I can't rev it otherwise it stalls out. Almost like it's starving for fuel. Pops a little while I modulate the throttle. Doesn't seem to want to start when on full choke. 1/2 choke will get it to start. When I rev it, it immediately bogs down. Idles way below then dies if I let it go on it's own. Any ideas on what to look for next?
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Hmmmm.Mine does the same thing.My bike was really hard to start unless warm and even then it was a bear to start.I installed the JD kit,the power up unit and changed the temp sensor.The bike worked GREAT after that,however 2 months later it is doing the same thing as yours....I have to rev the hell out of it to keep it running,and it is impossible to ride this way.I was going to change the fuel pump next like you did, but that didn't seem to be the solution for you....I guess I will take it to a tech and have it looked at.I will let you know what we find.
 
A bad fuel pump is what the mechanic from Ride Motorsports diagnosed the problem as being. I replaced it and have wondered what the likelyhood of having been sent a bad pump is. I'm going to go to harbor freight tool and pick up a line pressure tester to see what the psi is. Anyone know if I could just buy a mirror and put it into the chamber of the throttle body to see if the injector is spraying? I'm hoping it's something minor. I do still have the flashing nuetral light though. I'm assuming Ride Motorsports didn't put the bike on the I-Beat software. Maybe the bike has to be running to use that software....?
 
Could you not pull the injector off the bike, put it into a plastic bottle and attempt to start the bike.

You would see whether the injector is working and what spray pattern you get.

Please make sure you have the proper safety equipment at hand as the fuel is atomized and very easy to ignite.
CO2 extinguisher is a must.
 
Been a little while since my last post. I got frustrated with the new pump I installed. I just left it alone cause I was at the verge of craiglisting it for cheap!! At any rate, I want to start looking into it again. Never bought the in line pressure tester but am wondering if maybe it's the relay to the pump itself that's gone bad. When I first put the new pump in, I could hear the pump cycling in the beginning then it would stop and the bike would start. Bike would run like crap but it would start. Now I don't hear any cycling of the pump and it just turns over. Not even a hint of wanting to start.
 
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