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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2013 TE310 broke down in rain

richgilb

richgilb

Husqvarna
A Class
An expensive holiday to Wales with hotel, paid guide and travel ended short after my bike would not start 2 hours into the ride on day 2.

It would not bump from being towed either.

1 week later it started and the Husky dealer cannot find a fault. It was a really wet ride on both days, raining all day. Water ingress, we both conclude. His opinion was that all bikes suffer from this and that I should try to help deter it by spraying WD40 at all the vulnerable points.

My opinion is that I should sell the bike and get something else. It is about my tenth enduro bike and the only one that has ever left me stranded. My CRM250AR once refused to kick start after I dropped it and I had to push it to a hard surface to bump it. And that is it. I vowed then to only ever have electric start bikes after that.

Am I being overly-emotional here? It would not matter if I was just messing locally on a short circuit but enduro holidays are part of the hobby for me and I have another one booked on the Isle Of Man soon, which is even more expensive...and even wetter!
 
Silicone grease all your electrical connections. That should fix the issue. I do that to all my new bikes and never had water issues after that. My buddies 2013 KTM won't start for 2-3 hours after he rinses it off with water after a ride. If the bike isn't properly prepped, this will happen.
 
I dropped mine into a deep Herefordshire river yesterday - the only thing above the water was the throttle.
It was under water for a few seconds - not running, as I'd either stalled it or the kill switch had filled with water and stopped the engine. I tried to pick it up with my right hand, which was a mistake as I broke my finger on Friday and it was bandaged, so dunking it in a river wasn't a good idea! After changing hands, getting the bike vertical and pulling it out of the river, I looked into the area where any other bike would have an airbox (!) to see if it was dry-ish, which it was. I turned the bike over a few times by hand using the kickstarter, and it was free. Third prod on the starter button and it caught and ran perfectly for the rest of the day. Lucky??!!

Mike
 
AlwynMike said:
I dropped mine into a deep Herefordshire river yesterday - the only thing above the water was the throttle.
It was under water for a few seconds - not running, as I'd either stalled it or the kill switch had filled with water and stopped the engine. I tried to pick it up with my right hand, which was a mistake as I broke my finger on Friday and it was bandaged, so dunking it in a river wasn't a good idea! After changing hands, getting the bike vertical and pulling it out of the river, I looked into the area where any other bike would have an airbox (!) to see if it was dry-ish, which it was. I turned the bike over a few times by hand using the kickstarter, and it was free. Third prod on the starter button and it caught and ran perfectly for the rest of the day. Lucky??!!

Mike
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Lucky....unless you silicone sealed all your loom connections, in which case maybe well prepared is a better description!
 
richgilb said:
Lucky....unless you silicone sealed all your loom connections, in which case maybe well prepared is a better description!
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No, just lucky.

I need to check the valve clearances this time when I change the oil, so I may give it a liberal dose of silicone whilst everything is in bits.

I may even clean it!

Mike (I'm now dry, boots still soaked)
 
Interestingly, the Husky dealer suggested greasing not silicone. he says silicone can trap moisture already in there and cause problems.
 
If it is a water issue, I'd bet a connector is a bit loose. It's on enough to make a connection, but loose enough to allow water to penetrate. Find the loosey, you should be fine.

But it might be another kind of problem. What year is your 310? Have you checked the temp sensor? Early models were prone to temp sensor failure (so I hear, my 2011's been fine), which would cause the no-start issue.
 
I had assumed that the temp sensor problem was with pre X-Lite engines. Is this not the case? I know someone with a 2011 and he has had his temp sensor replaced. Waiting for him to confirm if it is an X-Lite or pre X-Lite, though
 
My 2013 already had temp sensor, ECU and injector replaced (among other things).

Something to keep an eye is water in your gas. Not sure how it is getting in there, but I have had water in my gas a couple times. Thinking it is getting in there when I pressure wash. Pretty much brings the bike to a halt.
 
I NEVER pressure wash. I just spray with the hose, avoiding areas with concentrations of plugs or electronics.
 
95jersey said:
My 2013 already had temp sensor, ECU and injector replaced (among other things).

Something to keep an eye is water in your gas. Not sure how it is getting in there, but I have had water in my gas a couple times. Thinking it is getting in there when I pressure wash. Pretty much brings the bike to a halt.
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How do you check water in your fuel?
 
richgilb said:
How do you check water in your fuel?
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Pull one of the hoses off, preferably the left side reserve and drain it into a mason jar. Swirl the fuel around in the sunlight and look for water droplets. I used to do this all the time on airplanes in the military. Pretty simple but effective. Water sinks to the bottom, fuel floats on top.
 
If you get enough water that gets sucked into the tank filter, it is a PITA. You either have to remove the filter from the tank or another way is to hook up a pressure fitting to the gas tank and blow it out under pressure.

I notice the gas cap does not have threads all the way around. This to me is a crappy design as I clearly can see dirt getting up through the gaps and clearly if dirt can get through, so can water.

Do all model years have this weird gas cap with spaced out threads?
 
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