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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1998 TE 610 problems

settantta

Husqvarna
Hi all, newbie on this forum.

Bike is a 1998 TE 610, carburettor model. Pretty well stock. Electrics are by Ducati, blue in colour, flywheel also Ducati and grey. I also have the full (multi-lingual) workshop manual.

I have two, possibly related problems:

Riding along on my bike the other day, about 40 km/h in 4th gear when it just stopped, as if I'd hit the kill switch. Anyone else had this happen, if so have you found an answer yet?

Since then, after it sat for about 5 days tried to start it, but no spark. checked the flywheel (Ducati, grey in colour), but all I could see was a little condensation (sort of expected, as we've been having some wet weather lately). I doubt that this would be the cause, since on one occasion I accidentally ended up riding through water that was up to the tank, and that didn't stop it at all, just kept on going. So a little condensation around the flywheel is not likely to have caused the lack of spark.

Open to suggestions.

Alex
 
I'd first be checking fuses. Now are you saying, first, that on the ride when it stalled it started back up and ran...or was that it (hasn't run since)? Mine's a 630, but I had a rub thru/short under my battery tray which caused stutter/stall and general melt of wires at VR plug. That's common on the 630, and Huskies in general are are known to have routing/fraying issues, so look over the wiring as well. Good luck.
 
Is your 610 the left kick start model ? I would check the magnet set inside of the flywheel if it is, those are known for coming loose.
 
Check all the wiring around the cdi unit as the looms brake down over time. Check from the cdi unit to the coil as well! There's a signal wire from the cdi and an earth! Also check the kill switch is working as it should. That's a switched earth that earths the cdi unit to kill it. Also make sure that the main earth is a good earth
 
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