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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

11 TE310 newbie

davek

davek

Husqvarna
A Class
Just signed onto this forum, long time KTMTalk member, dirtbiker for at least 50 years, new to Huskys. I've read the latest posts, seems like a knowledgeable group for tips and hints.

Got a great deal on this bike, looks like 1200 miles of street and not much dirt. I've got a KTM 250 2S for the dirt so looking to keep it more of a DS trail bike rather than a pure dirtbike. Came with the 40 tooth installed and the 50 tooth in a box which works for the street but going to have to try the 50 in the dirt. It's going to have to occasionally run at 55 on the street, anyone tried a 48 or so, 50 sounds too low. It's got the new 12 port injector and ECU installed and runs OK but it seems like it could run better. It also came with a JD kit but it's not installed. Have no idea what mapping is installed but when I put it on Map 2 it runs like there is a potato in the pipe, map 1 is much better. Does this bike respond well to a new pipe, FMF or other? It doesn't look like the stock one is a spark arrestor so I'll need one that is.
Thanks, DK
 
If you can purchase or get access to the iBeat software, you can work with the fueling a bit to get it to run better. I have a 50-tooth Ironman sprocket on mine, and it will do 55 for short bursts, but I wouldn't want to stay there for too long.
 
I have settled on a 48 on mine, it is still a little too tall for really technical sections, I burned up a clutch the last trip to the hills, but it does allow me to cruise 50-55 to get to the trails. The next step for me is a Rekluse I think it will be just the ticket and offset the tall gear ratio a little bit. I do have right at 100hrs on mine and it was still on the original clutch plates so to be fair it wasn't entirely the sprocket, but I do have to slip it quite a bit in the really steep technical stuff. I have an extra 46 "too tall for me", and a 50T in the garage, the 50 was perfect on the trails, but it was a little to low for the distance I have to travel to get to the really good trails.
 
You could try 45 rear, I think that will help a little bit more for your road speeds and not making your engine scream. I have a TE250 and the handlebars shake pretty good on these bikes... That's one issue I was having after riding on street for more then a few miles.

Enjoy the new ride!
 
Sooooo, I spent today with the bike, getting to know it mechanically, cleaning the air filter, greasing the linkage, changing the oil (PITA) and taking out the mid pipe "diffuser". When I ran it up and down the street it seems like that made the engine MUCH smoother, rev out better and I didn't notice any real increase in noise. I'm a happy camper with that change alone. Next step is to change the gearing, I'm going to put the 50 it came with on in the hopes a 48 or 46 will work in the dirt and still give me a decent top end on the dirt.

One thing I did notice it one of the shroud bolts spins and not loosen so it's spinning in the tank. Anyone had that happen and is there an easy fix?
Thanks, DK
 
You can try using a screwdriver type socket driver and putting a side load on the bolt as you try to loosen it. What has happened is the threaded insert has come loose in the tank. If that does not work, spin it with the bit in a drill and try and pry the edge of the bolt with a flat blade screwdriver and see if you can melt the insert loose out of the plastic. Once you get it out, you can remove the insert by holding it with pliers while you loosen the bolt. You can then epoxy the insert back into the tank.
 
Mike-AK said:
You can try using a screwdriver type socket driver and putting a side load on the bolt as you try to loosen it. What has happened is the threaded insert has come loose in the tank. If that does not work, spin it with the bit in a drill and try and pry the edge of the bolt with a flat blade screwdriver and see if you can melt the insert loose out of the plastic. Once you get it out, you can remove the insert by holding it with pliers while you loosen the bolt. You can then epoxy the insert back into the tank.
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Thanks Mike, I'll give it a try.
DK
 
There are other posts here where others have had and fixed the problem. I have not. I would recommend reading before proceeding. There may be some more tips to be had.
 
Dont run any sprocket smaller than a 50 if you run any tight trails.

I'm in NE PA and run a 52 and it is still too tall.
 
The Italians didnt blow it with gear ratios they built a race bike, a world championship winning race bike, they used 13/50 on that race bike, they sent out the 40 for the OEM street set up to make the thing last (also to get past noise) and a 50 for the OEM tested and engineered offroad set up, just beacause we dont ride as fast as its designed for doesnt make it wrong. If you ride these X-lites as designed everything is spot on..they are meant to ridden like 125 CR gearbox. FAR is doing just fine with their machines as well....me however in my ammie level uses 13/52, I do ride some dirt roads and that is a super low final drive for that but in ST it helps keep me more in second and even 3rd with less shifting between corners. Throw on the 50 rear and see if it works for you, you all ready have it see if your are comfortable with that final drive ratio. If you have the 12 port injector and 2012 TXC310 ECU combo you will be smilin' you can even leave the dB-S/A cap in and thing will run great with great torque through out the RPM range. My 2011 TE is in full 2012 TXC Spec. With a TC250 can (for lightness only, its 1/2 the weight of the TE can) and the dB-S/A plug in it, its been a very sucessful combo and very enduro sound check compliant.
 
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