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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2011 TE 310 and Mod. or 2012 TXC 310 and legalize?

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Benriding

Husqvarna
AA Class
Okay I need a plate. Do I buy a 2011 or 12 TE 310 and change out ecu and injector and possibly exhaust. Or do I get a TXC 310 and put on a dual sport kit and run to a diferent state to get a plate. If you want to get real technical niether is emissions legal, just want to run some roads to connect trails, couple dual sports, and may want to do a few enduros and harescrambles.
 
Get the TE and upgrade if you feel the need. WAY easier to deal with. There are very few differences between the TE and TXC beyond lights and horn.
 
Maybe wrong but seems like U.S. model TE 310 have a low end bog and need the TXC ecu and 12 port injector and reset tps again to run right. Maybe just seems that way as those with problems are the only ones who post.
 
Once they break in, they do better. On my '11 TE, there was a marked change around 250 miles. I've debated yanking the tuner just to see how it runs without it now, but the money was already spent. I might get better mileage, though.

IMO, it's easier to go with a street legal bike and add the ecu/injector later than to deal with DMV and put on all the stuff to make a txc street legal.
 
Well I have a 300 xc w that I have aplate for but had to get bike from a different state (was plated there) then transfered to my state. Yes it's a bit of a pain but doable. Yes if I lived in Cali. would probly not even attempt it. Did you get the JD tuner? How did it run before that? Thanks for the input, keep it coming!
 
My feeling is- get the price difference between the 2. That might sway your decision a bit. If they were equal, I'd be leaning twards the TE. For me id be more inclined to swap some parts out to make it run like the TXC than string new wiring and deal with the 2 states over plating. But that's just me. If you do more trail than race, you might find you don't need to swap anything, who knows.
 
If it were me and I was doing it all over again I would get the TXC and here are my reasons. The TE tires are junk I am swapping them out before any serious riding because they are just down right scary for off road ridding. Lighting I broke the rear directionals off the first time I swung my leg over the bike upon getting it home. Headlight if your doing any dusk or night riding you'll be replacing it for something better. ECU and injector ya I would rather a 12 port TXC one too!

What's the upside? Well the TE does give you easy registration ability but I live in NH and registering a TXC would be easy. No matter which bike you get you can make a TE into TXC or a TXC into a TE so price them out and figure out which one works out to less money and then run with it, that's my opinion.
 
tires... good point. The Krapoos suck.

I dunno how you managed to break a turn signal so easily. I've got 400 miles on my 310 and haven't broken one yet. I've dumped the bike on them a few times, too.

I find the head light adequate for a dirt bike. It gets the job done for the rare occasions it will be needed. I prefer not to ride off road at night - it's too dangerous. Even with exceptional lighting, you don't see everything.
 
I'd say TE. Just easier all the way 'round. Everythings there and it's been cleverly (and lightly) integrated. Aftermarket stuff just won't fit and perform the same. I've got 50 hard off-road hours on my TE with no failures whatsoever. And I didn't have to swear and sweat to make it all work.

Most of the TE/TXC parts are interchangeable.

As for the tire issue: you'll change so many tires over the life of the bike...so what? I put the Karoos on my DRZ. They're fine on the street.

Either way, the Husqy is a great off-road M/C, I am LOVING mine. :applause:
 
Difference is a couple hundred about the same cost as a DS kit. But add in tires, 12 port and ecu, comes out to about 700 more for the te but as said all the work and running around to try to register may not be worth it. How about the exhaust on the TE is it easy to uncork (remove cat)? Is it fairly light and flow well when uncorked?
 
Hi guys. I'm thinking of getting a 310 myself, leaning towards the TXC. My question is, has anyone who has ridden both on trails noticed a big difference? I see from the specs and pics on the Husky site that the TE is not just a "TXC with lights". They come with very different forks (open vs closed cartiridge). The swingarm looks different for sure, and the link is at a very different angle meaning the two bikes are probably going to ride a lot differently. I don't think a few mods on the TE is going to make it much like the TXC. So, has anyone spent time on both and have an opinion? I live in Arizona so I don't need turn signals or really anything to make my bike road legal here. We can even get a plate for 2-stroke quads without an inspection or testing of any kind.
 
Swingarms should be the same but you are right the forks are different. The TXC comes with closed chamber forks and the TE comes with open chamber forks. The open chamber will be more compliant on rock and root type enduro stuff and the closed chamber will be better on faster harder hitting moto track type stuff.
 
JasonfromMN said:
Swingarms should be the same but you are right the forks are different. The TXC comes with closed chamber forks and the TE comes with open chamber forks. The open chamber will be more compliant on rock and root type enduro stuff and the closed chamber will be better on faster harder hitting moto track type stuff.
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In other words, the TC should have the TXC forks and the TXC should have the TE forks. :excuseme:
 
It might be nice but it's 20lbs more and at least for me picking up and man handling an extra 20lbs after 100+ miles will get to ya.
 
Benriding is well versed in the offerings from KTM. He’s been on them since the late 90s and has 2 including a 300xc and a 450exc, he’s trying to become more enlightened and own a Husqvarna:cheers: . He’s not so much a dualsport rider as he is an off road racer who needs a plate.

I think he is still looking for info: pipe differences, and stock ecu/injector differences. He’s not going to want low speed stalls and will want low end grunt to lug it and launch it…

I am pretty sure the TXC has an Leo Vince Pipe and the TE comes with a Arrow Pipe with removable CAT. He would want to know if the Arrow Pipe works well enough to not need to be replaced.

Are you guys with 11TE310s having fueling issues with the stock ECU and injector that the 11TXC310 does not have? Fixed with Ibeat? Updated parts? Or Jd Tuner?

As far as the suspension goes- I think the open chambers would be as Jason pointed out- more compliant, TXC and TC's have the Dualchambers (just more firm for jumping/mx stuff) bit more complecated to tune/ maintain as well, TE's have single chambers. BUT I HAVE read that some TE's came with left over dualchambers in some weird cases....
 
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