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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2 Trick Questions for 449/511 owners

It's 3/8" hose coming off my breather vent. The actual oem breather vent is 0.303". SkarkBite makes an adapter from 3/8 to 1/2".
Thanks ! yeah I go over size on the hose to slow down the flow velocities to help out with the oil fall out. Also larger hose gives less flow resistance and will help the gasses get out better even with the smaller breather bungs.
 
You may want to try hooking up that funnel/hose thing you have to see if you can get oil to suck back into the oem breather? I couldn't in the past get it to do that, but I haven't tried it after I added the valve cover breather. :excuseme:
 
"The answer to the other modification is a second cooling fan ! You have to relocate the three relays next to your valve cover on the right side."


To do this do you have to install a second relay? Or is the original rated enough for the two?
 
To do this do you have to install a second relay? Or is the original rated enough for the two?

I will be running the original fan on the the stock wires. The second fan will be activated by a switch on my handlebar . I'm going to run a digital temp gauge to let me know when to activate fan 2 . It will be wired direct to the battery.
 
Spal 4" fans draw 36 watts each. I would run them off one relay. A cheap headlight relay can handle 250 watts easy.
I don't want them kicking on at the same time . Example : I can turn on fan two way before an approach at a slow crawling hill when I know the stock fan will be coming on . As the engine tempes rise past what fan 2 can handle fan 1 will come on automatically . I think if both fans kick on at the same time it might be hard on the items that expand and contract :) I bought the OEM husky fan , could be a spal brand idk .
 
:thumbsup: Just secured my spot in production on one :banana:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dmBQHLxsC7M

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It arrived today ! Looks like he made me his new version :) I picked the white.
 
I don't want them kicking on at the same time . Example : I can turn on fan two way before an approach at a slow crawling hill when I know the stock fan will be coming on . As the engine tempes rise past what fan 2 can handle fan 1 will come on automatically . I think if both fans kick on at the same time it might be hard on the items that expand and contract :) I bought the OEM husky fan , could be a spal brand idk .
Question for you, do you know how your temps are currently trending? You are the master tinkerer.
 

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Currently the bike hasn't been road in months now haha.... In the past when I single track the fan stays on allmost all the time... Commuting around town a long traffic light will kick the fan on. The only time I ever had any issue with a boil over was during a muddy ride where my cases were sealed with mud and the engine had a hard time staying cool, long easy straights was the only thing that would cool the bike and then when I stopped the fan would come on in about 7 seconds. This was probably do to high oil temps caused by the lack of air cooling the cases.

The two cooling fans will defiantly come in handy when on slow and steep goat trails and when your bikes engine gets filthy not allowing heat to transfer out the case.
 
You may want to try hooking up that funnel/hose thing you have to see if you can get oil to suck back into the oem breather? I couldn't in the past get it to do that, but I haven't tried it after I added the valve cover breather. :excuseme:
Sorry I missed this post !

Have you tried this yet ?
 
12v accessory for :excuseme:



Instant oil can for long days in the saddle when your bike can use a splash.. Might change this later :thinking:


TTO temp sensor installed here . Its a 19mm size when ordering one JIC anyone doesnt know...:cheers:


Second fan switch...



More later...:D
 
Up next .... panniers and a small tail rack for the goat trail. Estimated additional wieght = 2 lbs. They will be custom and might be able to hold fuel bladders , tools, tubes , snacks , air pumb , guns , fishing pole , registration ...
 
Also just filled the bike with XF coolant and tested stock thermal switch. Kicked the fan on at 195 then shut off at 180... Then it kicked on at 185 and off at 180. Bike had been sitting a while so the switch might have been stiff the first time around. The stock fan would bring down the temp ok by itself . Kicked the second fan on and it was even better :)
 
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