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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2008 510 SMR

T

Tardy

Husqvarna
Hello from sunny South Africa!

Due to the most amazingly fortunate circumstances, I will be taking delivery of a 2008 510 SMR soon. Brand spanking new, still in crate.

Would there be anything specific that I should watch out for considering it's age and lack of any maintenance?

Are there any known issues with these bikes that I should be aware of, or perhaps sort out before getting it going? Even though the thing is still crated, it has run out of warranty, so I'd like to be as safe as possible.

How restricted were the 2008s? I understand the FI map might be quite rich... I live at altitude (1400 m), would a dealer be able to load a more suitable map? I will be getting it on a dyno as soon as it is run in of course, but obviously the better the mixture from the get-go, the better for the motor's life?

I won't be racing on a track, but I don't think it will lead a very easy life either, commuting 10-odd km to work every day. Do you guys stick to the racing service intervals anyway, ie. 500 km oil changes, 1500 km valve inspections?

I am looking at getting some sliders for it for starters, and obviously the exhaust will go once run in - where would be a good place to start looking at some other bling, like levers, pegs, wavy discs, bar-end mirrors, engine covers, etc? Anything specific I should look at?

What OEM tyres should I be expecting? Are they any good?

Wow - 20 questions :D

Thanks!
 
I have a 08 smr 510 as well the first thing I would do is de-restrict it , power up and install a JD powersurge tuner. It will run like it should have to start with .
 
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