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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC 17 TE 150

Walt,

Can't wait to watch videos Monday on my computer. They are too small to watch on my phone. Might be that need bifocals too****************************************!!!

I ordered a rear Golden GT232N to try. Looks like it is a good tire. I also like the Battlecross X30 but it is a bugger to take off rim.

Been out of pocket for while but will get back up to speed.

Here is where I kinda left off.

Hoping this weekend to get rest of graphics on, get top end assembled except for the head.
I'm going to get a RK tech head insert, on order, based off of Walt.
 

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Great videos and for a full figured guy the little 150 pulls you just fine. Question could I cheat by lowering the deck and not do the head and you didn't mention if you drilled the air box ? Bike sounds so good .
 
I have drilled a few holes below the seat on the filter side. I also have a filtered vent fitted to the other side of the filter chamber. It pulls air behind the cover on that side. Both were clearly having air drawn by them. I think what is great about the 150 is the ability to just grrr up stuff with throttle control and limiting wheel spin. In the first vid I was barely scratching the depth of the top end as it will pull much farther if you have the talent to keep it pinned and aren't backing down to 3/4 throttle when you have enough for the situation.

Clearly just machining the stock insert and head to maximize squish will help. What you don't get is the significant benefit of extra cooling that his machining technique on both sides yields. Also his cut has significantly more squish area but with a tapered shape. .040" at the edge to about .048" at the chamber edge. The chamber itself is reshaped and is more conical than hemispherical and higher rather than shallow. The net effect is not so much a huge gain in compression but rather an efficient squish and chamber design that enhances bottom/mid and doesn't hurt the top at all. I am pretty confident that it has helped the top too but that area was never a need for improvement on the stock bike. My comments are just my interpretation of what I ASSUME is his design intent. Important thing is my butt dyno was impressed. Best thing is that RK TEK gives you a money back guarantee that you will be happy and is always willing to make adjustments for your needs.

My complete motor setup:

RK Tek head
cylinder matched and cleaned up with the exhaust port polished and matched up. Flapper closed setting 36.25mm
Lectron 38mm carb with 5-1xl rod(this is the standard Lectron not the HV)
Filter box vented
FunnelWeb air filter!
FMF Fatty pipe
FMF Turbine Core 2.1 silencer

Lots of comments every time I ride about how quiet the bike is but I haven't noticed any real decrease in power. There is a power cost but it wasn't significant to me.
One other thing about the RK Tek head is you will probably need to richen up your jetting a smidge. I am getting an average of 34-35 mpg with this setup. I have had one 50 mile ride where I got 42 and another shorter ride that was mostly all sand washes where I got ~32.
 
Thanx Walt!

FYI! Talk to friend at home. He is getting a 150 but has to wait till may.

Got news clip from Husky. In 2016 they sold like 30,000 bikes.

That's incredible from where these came in few years.
 
I can't wait to see if they actually bring the fuel injected ones in for next year.

I might have to grab one if reviews are good. I might even convert mine if it will bolt on.
You can do a lot with the throttle body to get more low and top, then someone will have a tuner that can be programmed.
 
The Funnelweb is great and works as advertised. I have had one on my 177 for quite a while. I buy two for everything now and they stay cleaner longer by far. They also have a great fitment that eliminates anything getting by around the edges. I have yet to have one allow any dirt/dust to pass just clean air.
 
wallybean said:
Here are a few short clips of me lugging around the TE 150. The first cloudy clip was my first ride in 2 months and before I made any adjustments to the Lectron with the new rod and it was fairly lean. A few adjustments and it ran perfectly. I apologize ahead of time for the boring rider. I am old, fat, and slow. Remember my riding weight is 240# and this is a 150 pulling me around. The videos imbedded backwards with the first, lean running vid on the bottom. It was really lean on the bottom/mid.

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Bike sounds good Walt!

I like last vid when you opened her up more....

Who was riding with you?

I was waiting for you to catch one of those wash outs, to see what a riding video is like up side down!
 
Friend of mine was telling me. A friend of ours rode a team harescramble, with his son last fall. He bought the Husky 150. Guess first lap he was 4 mins ahead of everyone.
 
That last vid was the first day I rode when I had just installed the new rod. It was very lean on the bottom/mid so I was spending a lot of time letting her rip a little. The first 3 vid clips I posted just to show how well the 150 pulls with the RK Tek head on the bottom/mid. As usual the Go Pro makes it all look flat but a lot of it was pretty steep and the little goat just grrrs its way up. But you are right hyper velocity is always just a flick away.
 
wallybean said:
That last vid was the first day I rode when I had just installed the new rod. It was very lean on the bottom/mid so I was spending a lot of time letting her rip a little. The first 3 vid clips I posted just to show how well the 150 pulls with the RK Tek head on the bottom/mid. As usual the Go Pro makes it all look flat but a lot of it was pretty steep and the little goat just grrrs its way up. But you are right hyper velocity is always just a flick away.
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I just tilt my lap top screen to get the real affect.

Sometimes I tilt it to the right and looks like you are riding the wall of death.

Bike sounds good!
 

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