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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2004 TE250 Starting Problems

tigers9472

tigers9472

Husqvarna
I recently bought my TE250 right before winter so didn't get to ride it much but in the fall after I bought it, I tried to start it a few times and its very difficult. Has electric start only. Right after I bought it the prior owner had the idle set pretty high, but it seemed to start ok after three twists of the throttle. I adjusted the idle and now I can't get it to start, and can't find the prior point of the idle where it did start. I have to shoot just a bit of starting fluid in the intake to get it started, which I know isn't good and I hate doing and once it is getting started it backfires a little bit. It is getting spark, and actually once it's started and warm, will usually start right back up again. The prior owner said he never had any problems so did I just mess up the settings with the idle screw? I can't even find the air screw on the carb as I read I may need to richen the mixture. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!
 
The idle/pilot jet is caked with varnish, making it a much smaller jet (if not completely clogged). Remove the idle jet and clean it by getting a very small strand of copper wire, like you'd find in old speaker wire, twist a 2 foot section around your finger to make a spring-like shape, and then pass that thru the jet a couple of times, looking thru the jet at a light before and after the passes, to see if it's getting bigger. If the varnish cannot be removed like that, you'll need to buy a new idle jet.
 
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