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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2012 husqvarna smr 511

dave newlin

dave newlin

Husqvarna
AA Class
just purchased bike runs very hot, first ride my pant leg and shoe laces were burned and melted. I thought maybe i hit my leg on the header, I tryed to ride to work and found I couldnt keep my foot on the pegs, and stopped. Bike was leaking coolant and extremly hot, took in to be repaired, but i fear this motor has been compromised it only has 100 miles on it. I am not sure what would make it run so hot, I did find the air filter was soaked with foam filter oil and bottom of air bos was full of oil too! I clean all this out and still runs the same. Any thoughts thanks , dave​
 
The engine pumps oil into the air box which leaks down the left side of the bike and on to the radiator. The oily radiator quickly becomes clogged as it picks up dirt and dust. Hence you get overheating. Pull the left hand rad shroud and see if the rad fins are plugged with dirt.

Stock the bikes are pretty lean. Get an EFI box and richen the mixture up a bit.
 
These engines run hot during the break in period, especially with factory ecu tuning. You can get your ecu remapped and an after market silencer aids in removing some of the heat. Oil breather relocation and recirculation system will solve your oil blow by issue while increasing your oil capacity (shameless plug sorry).
 
Thanks for your input, the bottom of the air box was full off blue oil, foam filter oil I think. I dont think it was motor oil. I am waiting to hear what the dealer says.
 
Oil tends to blow out at higher rpms. During break in, my 511 was constantly leaking coolant. At one point I thought I had a blown head gasket, but I didn't.
 
They load the air filter with oil, when I got mine home after a ride there was a green puddle under the left side of the bike. Engine oil and coolant weren't green so it took me a while to figure out what it was.
 
i think when the oil gets pumped in the airbox it puddles and get colored from the die in the foam filter oil, and it looks like the filter was over oiled. I talked to dealer today after having my bike for a week they changed the coolant , and say that is all they can do and that its not running hot now. we will see , I bought a fmf pipe but need to buy a efi tuner or remap. what the best way to go, just want to be able to tune the bike correctly.
 
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