• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 TE310 Tail Light

Mike-AK

Mike-AK

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I decided to remove the plate and blinkers from my 2012 TE310 entirely. I didn't like the look, didn't want to worry about turn signals getting torn off, and really had no desire to ride on the road anyway. I also plan on transporting my bike to the trailhead on the back of my Jeep using a Mototote. Anyway, to make a long story short, after removing all the unnecessary pieces, the tail light fit is sloppy in the recess in the fender. It looks like that is the way the Australian TE's are set up, however. Is there an extra piece they are adding to fill the gap and keep the tail light from rattling around? Thanks.
 
Mike-AK said:
I decided to remove the plate and blinkers from my 2012 TE310 entirely. I didn't like the look, didn't want to worry about turn signals getting torn off, and really had no desire to ride on the road anyway. I also plan on transporting my bike to the trailhead on the back of my Jeep using a Mototote. Anyway, to make a long story short, after removing all the unnecessary pieces, the tail light fit is sloppy in the recess in the fender. It looks like that is the way the Australian TE's are set up, however. Is there an extra piece they are adding to fill the gap and keep the tail light from rattling around? Thanks.
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Mine has a 3-4mm plastic or rubber spacer sandwiched between the light and top of cover to keep it snug. I'de find a piece of rubber to do the same.
 
Thanks guys. I think I've got some adhesive backed sorbothane laying around somewhere from another project that might work.
 
I played around with it a little more tonight, and I think I've discovered the root cause. The metal bushing that the mounting bolt passes through and fits inside the rubber grommet in the rear fender is too long without the ugly black plastic license plate thing installed. A couple dozen licks with a bastard file fixed that problem, and the tail light mounts nice and solid with just the right amount of flex from the rubber mounts to isolate any vibration. I also bobbed and re-contoured the fender extension under the tail light to make it look a little cleaner.
 

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