• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 te250 & te310

Joe Chod;103763 said:
Could be but there was nothing mentioned to indicate that other than "the pump is new". If it was moved from the inside...one would think that would be mentioned....otherwise...staus quo..it remained in the tank.
I also don't see in the numerous pics where the remote pump lives and is protected. Also, there is no petcock on the TC pics. Again...don't want to sound cynical. fingers crossed and looking ahead down the trail.
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The TC gets last years TE / TXC tank and the new TE / TXC will get a bigger tank with remote pump unit so it can; "The tank has a new pump which enables 100% exploitation of fuel available."
 
MOTORHEAD;103826 said:
.... remote pump unit so it can; "The tank has a new pump which enables 100% exploitation of fuel available."
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I Hope the fuel pump does not cost > $1000 AUS. Should be an affordable serviceable item. "Complicate and Profit ? "
 
MOTORHEAD;103826 said:
The TC gets last years TE / TXC tank and the new TE / TXC will get a bigger tank with remote pump unit so it can; "The tank has a new pump which enables 100% exploitation of fuel available."
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Saw the part you bolded.....never saw or heard of the first part. Inside information?
 
Looks like some good things coming down the pipe +++++ Look at that fuel tank! The weight loss is probably due to comparing that beefy old engine design to the newer 250 style. Hope they did go external with the pump. Much more adaptable for aftermarket options if so. And look, a mid-pipe guard that looks like P3's in a metal version!

Like Joe said though, it's pretty in pictures.
 
No Karoo's, yea! New hubs, bummer in the style dept. imo. Love the look of the current fat Husky hubs. 2 1/4 gallon useable tank, nice! The 310 looks like a winner to me. I would like to have one. Couldn't get rid of the 510 though, it is so much fun!
 
A bore And stroke job on the 310. Should be a wonderful little bike.

The strokes only .2mm shorter than the new KTM 350. I wonder how far the usual US hot rodder companies can go with the bore on the 310? I don't think very far, as it's a genuinely tiny engine unit, not like the far from small KTM one.

But I'm sure someone will try to put the cylinder/base studs into the cylinder wall!
 
Fuel pump update:

The pump is internal, the fuel taps on both sides must be to ensure fuel from both sides of the tank can be used. The tank is quite deep either side of the frame rails so if there wasn't a link pipe then the fuel on the RH side would remain unused. Close up of LH side of tank showing what I assume to be the base of the new smaller pump (although no obvious fuel line outlet) and LH tap:

TE310MY11Tank800.jpg



Dave
 
Husky Sport;103900 said:
Fuel pump update:

The pump is internal, the fuel taps on both sides must be to ensure fuel from both sides of the tank can be used. The tank is quite deep either side of the frame rails so if there wasn't a link pipe then the fuel on the RH side would remain unused. Close up of LH side of tank showing what I assume to be the base of the new smaller pump (although no obvious fuel line outlet) and LH tap:

TE310MY11Tank800.jpg



Dave
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Guess that's what I get for listening to a guy who works for Suzuki. :lol:
 
Thanks Dave.
I actually was thiniking, hoping it was what you said. Like low slung fat bob tanks on a Harley. Neccessary to allow even flow of fuel. Fits in well with the comment from the Varese release of "Better scavenging ability of the pump to maximize fuel capacity".
Motorhead....tell your bud at Suzuki he owes you a free lunch.....or better still, that Dungey is switching to Yamaha.
 
Joe Chod;103725 said:
You all know me....I Bleed red..and not wanting to sound a cynic, but looks like some nice photo shop til I see it "on the floor" with all those specs actually on the bike. (case in point is a petcock on an EFI bike....amongst other things in the pic) Nothing against Husky N/A, but the recent change of specs from Italy on the WR150 without the sharing of that info to Husky N/A has left me "less than awe inspired".
Joe
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I received an email from Husqvarna Italy (I work at a dealership in Canada) with this same information. Expect everything said in the first post to be true and coming our way shortly.
 
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