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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2001 TE610e Project - Another No Sparker!

al_hrc

Husqvarna
Hi All,​
I’m Trying to help a friend with his 2001 Husqvarna TE610e. The story is the bike became difficult to start, and then one morning wouldn’t start at all. From what I can see, there is no spark.​

He took it to two dealerships over here that didn’t offer any solutions, but did charge him nearly $400 for work that I cannot see has been done!​
So I’ve taken it on as a little bit of a project, and done some testing changed some parts and still can’t get it to spark. Here is what I have done;​
Basic continuity test throughout the circuit, and checked all earths.​
· Tested kill switch – infinite resistance when “off”, 0 ohm when “on”.​
· Clutch switch – Infinite resistance when clutch not pulled in.​
· Starter button – Infinite resistance when “not pushed” drops to 0 ohm when “pressed”.​
· Neutral Switch appears to function ok, as does the Ignition switch.​
· Battery on the bike was the original, so I’ve binned that. I’ve been using a battery from a KTM 950 supermoto which is showing a good 12.8V.​
· The Ignition coil has been replaced with a new item, and I am getting a 0.5 ohm reading from the primary winding, and a 10.6k ohm from the secondary winding (with the plug cap on).​
· The pulse coil has been tested for resistance, and although the unit itself looks as though it has seen better days, I am getting a healthy 95 ohm from the green to white wire.​
· The stator has also been tested for resistance and I am getting a reading of 260 ohm from the red to black wire.​
· As per a previous thread (http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/01-610-spark-issues.10109/#post-225889), I measured the “cranking voltage” on both the Pulse/Trigger Coil and the Stator. From the Pulse coil I get a reading of 0.2V AC, and from the Stator I get 36V AC. These readings seem to differ quite a lot (a lot lower) from what was discussed in the original thread.​
· I have also been in a position to test a replacement Flywheel, CDI and fit a new spark plug/cap/HT lead without solving the issue.​

I know there is a lot of specs/information there, but can anyone possibly help me with other things I should try? What could be causing those Cranking Voltage readings to be so low and could it prevent the bike from Sparking?​
Any help would be very much appreciated. I see someone recomended calling a forum member, but being on the other side of the world could be a little difficult with timing issues!​
Aidan​
Jersey, Channel Islands, UK.​
 
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