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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

310 clutch chatter

R

R_Little

Husqvarna
Pro Class
For some reason my new 310 has a clutch that chatters.
OTOH, the clutch on my 2010 Te250 is well used but it is smooth as silk.
Did Husky change the clutch basket on the newer bikes and will the extra clutch I have for my 250 fit on my 2012 310?

Thanks
 
The new bikes have a cast clutch basket with questionable tolerances and rubber cushions to dampen vibes. It isn't uncommon for them to chatter, especially with a Rekluse but I gather you aren't running one. It really doesn't hurt anything but if it bothers you there are billet baskets that you can replace it with that make a noticeable improvement. I chose the Rekluse basket which was very high quality and has it's own style rubber cushion system. Smooth and quiet. Hope this helps.
 
I was going to say it sounds like your clutch rubbers are either shot or have been warped. The other thing is oil, if you run too heavy of an oil, the clutch plates do not obtain enough oil molecules between them and will chatter until warmed up. By running a multi-weight like 0W40, the clutch begins functioning smooth sooner.

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So when I change the oil I will go with the same 0/40 i now use in my 2010 250. If that does not work...off to zipTy

What I cannot understand is why the 2010 with WAAAAY more time on it has a smooth stock clutch and the new 2012 310 clutch chatters.

Does anyone know if the later baskets are made differently.
 
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