• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 TXC 310R Build

onthegas85

onthegas85

Husqvarna
C Class
Finally gonna get to ride this thing this weekend. Spent the last 2 months looking at it and putting parts on. All the enduro engineering crap, revalved the front suspension and took out 30cc's of oil, some sweet zip ty parts, cv4 hoses, removed fan and thermostat, ride pg graphics, greased every bearing, di-electric grease in all connectors and a full exhaust coming tomorrow. Can't wait to beat it up this weekend.
 

Attachments

  • photo 1-5.JPG
    photo 1-5.JPG
    164.5 KB · Views: 208
  • photo 2-6.JPG
    photo 2-6.JPG
    145.2 KB · Views: 198
  • photo 3-5.JPG
    photo 3-5.JPG
    176.3 KB · Views: 207
Its an enduro engineering skid plate. Coverage is so so. Could be better. I also have their oil line protector on too, so hopefully that helps
 
Awesome bike bud! I got the '12 but that bike looks good. I see you put a new seat cover on already, I don't blame you. Mine has already ripped (idk how but it did :() and I was thinking of getting a new seat cover same as yours. I ended up getting the TM Design Works skid plate today and was looking at how it's going to mount up and its kinda odd. Btw I don't think removing the fan was a good idea. Why did you do that?
 
Connor said:
Awesome bike bud! I got the '12 but that bike looks good. I see you put a new seat cover on already, I don't blame you. Mine has already ripped (idk how but it did :() and I was thinking of getting a new seat cover same as yours. I ended up getting the TM Design Works skid plate today and was looking at how it's going to mount up and its kinda odd. Btw I don't think removing the fan was a good idea. Why did you do that?
Click to expand...



My dealer said it helps the bike run better. Fred Andrews from F.A.R. also said to do the same. So many of the factory teams remove the fan and thermostat. Better starting when the bike is hot. My buddy has a 2012 310 and removed the fan and the bike has never ran better. Runs way smoother. We are also running the Evans Coolant.
 
onthegas85 said:
My dealer said it helps the bike run better. Fred Andrews from F.A.R. also said to do the same. So many of the factory teams remove the fan and thermostat. Better starting when the bike is hot. My buddy has a 2012 310 and removed the fan and the bike has never ran better. Runs way smoother. We are also running the Evans Coolant.
Click to expand...

That makes no sense? I kind of understand the thermostat idea because I heard of it being done when i raced ATV's but removing the fan seems useless? Aside from losing a pound or two it isn't going to help you. It does nothing but turn on when the engine gets to warm. That's in no way a draw back. Explain why removing both of them is a good thing, as I'm curious. It's not that I don't believe you it's just that I don't understand it. I'd have to understand the reasoning behind it.
 
I raced atv's too and know of a few people that removed the thermostat and had it run hotter. I do believe without the thermostat the coolant was moving too fast thru the radiators too cool properly. You need some sort of restriction to slow the coolant down. But with running Evans that might be a different story.
 
joedirt said:
I raced atv's too and know of a few people that removed the thermostat and had it run hotter. I do believe without the thermostat the coolant was moving too fast thru the radiators too cool properly. You need some sort of restriction to slow the coolant down. But with running Evans that might be a different story.
Click to expand...

Well I tried that trick before on my ltr450 when it was running hot and I ran Engine Ice in it, I even had over sized fluidyne radiators.
 
Does anyone else have any ideas on this fan thing? I don't understand it, but if it helps in some way or another please let me know.
 
I know husky had problems with not running fans in the past to the point they would blow hoses off . I know an engine has to reach a certain temp for optimal performance . I will keep my thermostat to achieve that temp and keep my fan so I don't go to far over that point . Kind of like insurance .
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top