• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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 TE310r Electric start issues

Johnrg said:
Sounds like my bike until I did valves twice. No issues since. Since my 13 was new it had all the starting symptoms. Warrantied gears, valve check, etc... All prior to warranty running out. I was either going to throw the bike out my second story window or sort it. My dealer was not 100% willing to re-check the valves, but I pushed. Though in spec, went one shim tighter on the shim affecting the decomp. Been fine for 2k miles after that. The Earth X has simply offered even performance and not faded in use starting in 2+ years. Occasionally engine will stick at TDC but I won't lay on the button.... Click again and turns over. So a fine line for that valve shim but I think that is the culprit if all gears and starter are OK such as on the late 13 and 14. My dealer was quick to blame the little starter but was not of much help. Michael, AKA Tinken, was the one who said to check the valves again, so I prodded my dealer into re-checking since I don't stock shims. Stuck at .229 and went tighter. No problems since.
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Thanks John! I would like to discuss if you have a few. PM me your number or I can send you mine.
 
Ok. I was having a similar problem, but I think it was due to the Rekluse. Good Luck. I was having so many problems with that bike I sold it and bought a new 2016 FE350
 
Rob1965 said:
The starter on one is relatively new. I think with both bikes the gears need to be greased or something so they will turn over. When I kick and hold the button, usually it fires right up.
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Rob the new starter is a good thing but greasing the gears wont help unfortunately , you actually have to replace them with the updated hardened version that most dealers stock etc. Then also check the valves as well, and you should be good to go , look into the earlier discussions in this thread, they really helped me
 
@rob1965: No, I have not touched it yet. I still need to wash it after riding down at Moto Vations(the old HRD in Gaston) last weekend. That, and without a heated garage I haven't been looking forward to it.

@Joe Piddington: I do have a Rekluse clutch in mine. Its been in there for almost two years though. I have just recently started having problems.
 
rschneider said:
@rob1965: No, I have not touched it yet. I still need to wash it after riding down at Moto Vations(the old HRD in Gaston) last weekend. That, and without a heated garage I haven't been looking forward to it.

@Joe Piddington: I do have a Rekluse clutch in mine. Its been in there for almost two years though. I have just recently started having problems.
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I hear you. We were down there too last Sunday. Sorry I missed you. I too have not washed our bikes due to weather, non heated garage, etc. After talking with Bill's, he said to check the idle and also go in tighter on the decompressor on the exhaust valve. I have heard this several times and am going to try these before I take the starter out since my starters are relatively new.
 
Ha, we were down there on sun to. I didn't notice any other huskys. Wasn't really looking though. Ryan Sipes and the NFab boys were ripping it up though, weren't they?

Are you going to do the adjustment yourself or get Gerald to do it?
 
rschneider said:
Ha, we were down there on sun to. I didn't notice any other huskys. Wasn't really looking though. Ryan Sipes and the NFab boys were ripping it up though, weren't they?

Are you going to do the adjustment yourself or get Gerald to do it?
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Yeah, so Ryan and Grant Baylor! I am going to call Gerald tomorrow to get his thoughts. Most likely will take it to him. I do good to change the oil :)
 
Let me what Gerald says, and if that does it. If it works I will probably just drop mine off and let him do mine too.
 
There was a post somewhere on here that zipty was doing some coating to the starter gears. I would be interested to hear if that ever worked out.
 
joedirt said:
There was a post somewhere on here that zipty was doing some coating to the starter gears. I would be interested to hear if that ever worked out.
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Saw that and that would be ideal for new gears. I am going to mention that to my dealer too.
 
Hi! Looking for some advice and expertise on a starting problem I'm facing with my 2011 TE310...

The e-starter seems to be bipolar; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It seems to be of electric nature, like a bad contact or something, however, I believe it is related with some kind of band sensor.

The battery is good. The valves are good. The starter motor is also good, as it works (sounds) when I press the starter button with the engine idle. Sometimes, after the bike stalls, if I press the starter button it turn on the engine, other times it doesn't do anything (I can't even ear the starter motor).

Can anyone help? If it is a sensor related problem, which one should I be looking for?

Many thanks in advance!
 
bfalcao said:
Hi! Looking for some advice and expertise on a starting problem I'm facing with my 2011 TE310...

The e-starter seems to be bipolar; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It seems to be of electric nature, like a bad contact or something, however, I believe it is related with some kind of band sensor.

The battery is good. The valves are good. The starter motor is also good, as it works (sounds) when I press the starter button with the engine idle. Sometimes, after the bike stalls, if I press the starter button it turn on the engine, other times it doesn't do anything (I can't even ear the starter motor).

Can anyone help? If it is a sensor related problem, which one should I be looking for?

Many thanks in advance!
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Believe me most likely its not a sensor, its most likely the internal starter gears(not the starter itself but the gears in the motor) read the above thread tons of people have had the same exact issue, me being one of them, it drove me nuts!!! till I replaced the gears and so far so good! knock on wood! Let me know if I can be of any assistance! Jim
 
Jimmy250 said:
Believe me most likely its not a sensor, its most likely the internal starter gears(not the starter itself but the gears in the motor) read the above thread tons of people have had the same exact issue, me being one of them, it drove me nuts!!! till I replaced the gears and so far so good! knock on wood! Let me know if I can be of any assistance! Jim
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Hey Jim! Thanks for your reply. I've read all the forums, this thread included, entirely!, and the "symptoms" seems to be significantly different.. The starter motor is fine (and so the gears, I believe). I'm able to use the e-starter several times, however, it only works if the bike has been running before (like the last minute or soo). Other times, when it doesn't work, hitting the button doesn't actuate on the starter motor, like zero current flowing!. When it spins it works perfectly, but most times it just doesn't spin at all!

I hope you understood...

Bruno
 
Take apart the RHS handlebar switch assembly and clean the starter button switch. The contacts arc and can cause this. Clean the contacts with some contact cleaner.
 
Mudvayne said:
Got the new gears in Friday and rode all day today (Saturday) it started like a new bike all day long, hot, cold in gear didn't matter! Those old gears had just broken through the hard surfacing just enough to make them sticky instead of really slippery! Wow what a difference! I even have some starting evidence in my latest video have a look its at the very end if you don't want to watch all the way through! But if you like Husky's I recommend watching all the way through! HeHe.
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just noticed the video, I know its been up a while, love the part when you wheelie at like3:40 and most of all when you show the starter button working! Ride on!
 
bfalcao said:
Hey Jim! Thanks for your reply. I've read all the forums, this thread included, entirely!, and the "symptoms" seems to be significantly different.. The starter motor is fine (and so the gears, I believe). I'm able to use the e-starter several times, however, it only works if the bike has been running before (like the last minute or soo). Other times, when it doesn't work, hitting the button doesn't actuate on the starter motor, like zero current flowing!. When it spins it works perfectly, but most times it just doesn't spin at all!

I hope you understood...

Bruno
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Hmm ok so cold starts are not good? But warm or hot starts are? yes mine was ok cold but hot not so good. But it really was hit and miss, then once I fixed the gears I had to change the starter because it still wouldn't turn the motor over, when I took the starter apart it was toasted! completely burnt inside. I agree with hhdwtmtw check the switch. I originally thought it was my battery so I went and tried like 4 different batteries till I talked to my dealer and they told me all about this issue. They also told that 310's are worse than the 250's but they said that most all of the bikes have the issue . Keep me posted Jim
 
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