• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

FE/FC 2014 FE shop manual?

reveille

reveille

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I see a CD for sale on eBay that claims to be a Husqvarna FE shop manual. Priced very good. Does anyone have one yet or found another option? My dealer didn't have one for sale. Please let me know if the shop manual is worth buying.
 
I already have some PDF's for parts, owners and forks that I will upload in the coming days. Not sure what else the CD has
 
I did go ahead and order the Ebay Husqvarna 2014 FE repair manual yesterday. I will follow up on it once it arrives. It claims to be genuine Husqvarna and a repair manual. I tried Halls Cycles prior to ordering from fleabay but Hall's doesn't carry one yet. I hope it's a repair/shop manual as claimed and not just a owners manual on CD. $25 shipped
 
The repair manual came today VIA USPS. Very good for $25 IMHO. Here is what came. It is extremely thorough and what I was looking for. It overlaps the owners manual a bit and IMO makes the owners manual obsolete. Money well spent.

 
does it just have more detail than the owners manual i.e. how to set valves, replace piston etc?
 
I already tried but it is some funky file format and wouldn't copy with Nero. It's only $25 shipped...
 
Thanks just ordered one!



reveille said:
The repair manual came today VIA USPS. Very good for $25 IMHO. Here is what came. It is extremely thorough and what I was looking for. It overlaps the owners manual a bit and IMO makes the owners manual obsolete. Money well spent.

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I have the DVD with all the info from Husky. It's basically useless since 90 percent of the information is in your users manual. The only difference is engine removal and shock/fork maintenance. Turns out I use the owners manual more than the DVD. I don't think the $25 is a waste and if I need to remove my engine it'll come in handy.
 
wilmar13 said:
I assume it has full inspection and rebuild procedures for all engine internals, yes?

What about the shock and fork, does it have everything you need to service?
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Yes and yes. It does not cover the valve clearance check procedure which is the main reason I bought it. Thankfully RMATV has a great video for the KTM 500 EXC engine which is the same as the 501 so I lucked out.
 
For my 2014 FE501 it has nothing regarding valve clearance checks. It does give you tolerances but not how to check them, get the bike at DTC, ETC. I'm guessing they expect the mechanic to already know how to do that?
 
I have checked valves on many bikes over the past decades but never a KTM single cam so I was looking for some guidance prior to just tearing into it. I found that guidance easily but I was surprised it wasn't at least mentioned in the repair manual. On a side note, the KTM single cam valve checks are a breeze compared to the twin cams and changing shims is very easy. I'm enjoying working on this bike.
I spent 4 hours this morning replacing all of my final drive components due to wear and re greasing the suspension linkage points. The bolt holding the linkage to the frame is a mother to remove BTW. Just giving her some much needed love. I have 125 hours and just shy of 4k miles now. Still running like new.
 
I use a pneumatic impact gun and it zips the cs bolt off in a half second. I think it's easier on the gears that way but I could be wrong. Installing is easier and I think it's only 44ft pounds.
 
Hey I just did some more research into the repair manual and low and behold I did find the valve check procedure buried in the engine reassembly section... However, after reading the procedure it's basically a useless procedure since part of the engine is already disassembled at that point. I will say that the way the manual is referenced/organized is a bit weird. About the time I figure it all out I'll have a different bike... LOL
 
Is possible for a forum member to copy the CD content (iso or zip) onto google drive or something (FE350)? PM if you can/want to as all l've got is the owners manual and using the KTM Service repair manual downloaded from KTM.
 
I tried copying mine and it copied ok but won't work off the copy. It must have some protection. Sorry. It's a whopping $24 shipped so at least it's affordable.
 
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