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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2007 SMR 510 hard/no start when cold

S

SMR510 Rider

Husqvarna
B Class
I'm pretty frustrated. The 510 started struggling to turn over the engine. It'll turn over with the decompressor pulled in, but when you drop it, it stops. I put a car booster pack on it and it fired up immediately. Replaced the battery, same situation. Replaced the starter. Same situation. Check valve timing, valve clearances. Drained coolant and blew air in the cylinder. Felt it coming out the side of the block. Blown head gaskets can act like this. Replaced the head gasket, piston and rings. Bottom end turns over very smoothly. Moved smoothly with just the piston and cylinder on. Once I put the head on, it was much harder to turn over. Got it back together. Had to use a car and jumper leads to start it the first time. This morning I tried to start it cold and needed only a small battery booster. It turned over a few times on it's own before it couldn't anymore.

Pre-engine rebuild it had gotten so bad that even a car and jumper leads wouldn't start it. Now it's 90% there, but still off. I've order a solenoid and battery cable. They could be off a bit? I've done a million voltage checks with my meter. What am I missing? I've thrown 1000 dollars USD at this and I'm pretty pissed the problem still exists.
 
look at your grounds and your starter relay/wires (frayed, broken or limp inside?), maybe. clean and tighten the connections (use vasolilne or dielectric grease before tightening them)

whatever the problem ends up being- let us know.

good luck.
 
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