• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 on street only

richard kersten

richard kersten

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just curious I ride my 310 95% dirt , street just to get to the trails , just wondering if anyone is 100% street on their 310 and if so what did you do to make it more street friendly.
 
I recently saw a company selling SM wheels from the Husky factory for a 310. Could be a fun bike with ultra anal maintenance schedules and proper gearing I guess. A 510/511 would be better IMHO. Agree with the above post that this bike has 95% dirt running through it's veins.
 
13/45 might be doable but again, not the right bike for the task IMHO. At 70 mph my 310 is twitchy and the front fender wind steer is scary. Super moto fender might help some.
 
I agree with all these guys and the Husky manual, dirt bike engines are not intended to sustain one rpm for long periods of time there meant for all rpm levels with a good load on the motor not 'buzzing' down the highway..bad idea! I have a few buddies that have blown up Honda CRF450 engines because of making dual sports out of them and they cant figure out what went wrong..lol
 
I have seen 310's converted to smr's. When racing these engines, we have found that sustained rpm will seize the rod bearings due to low oil delivery. Utilizing low viscosity synthetic oils such as Mobil1 0W40 in conjunction with high flowing stainless steel oil filters helps to alleviate this issue. Our solution was to remove the crankshaft and replace with a redesigned rod bearing and oil delivery system. The mod cost is only $100, but requires an engine tear down and is beyond the scope of most owners. It is usually reserved for those who race.
 
My 310R is primarily my dirt bike however, I have a set of SM wheels I purchased from Warp 9 racing for it. I put the stock 40 tooth rear sprocket on them. I have only had them on a couple of times and have limited my riding to in town riding(45mph speed limit). It will run just fine at 55-60mph but I refrain from any long drones down the open road. In city traffic to/from work, it is extremely capable. I have also taken it to the N. Georgia mountains with me for short blasts down extremely twisty roads but also brought my BMW R1100S for our long daily rides. Every time I have rode it to work, I couldn't resist pulling a wheelie leaving the office. Motards make a hooligan out of me.
 
310 properly set up for offroad absolutely sucks on-road, unless you are doing wheelies down the block.
 
Tinken said:
I have seen 310's converted to smr's. When racing these engines, we have found that sustained rpm will seize the rod bearings due to low oil delivery. Utilizing low viscosity synthetic oils such as Mobil1 0W40 in conjunction with high flowing stainless steel oil filters helps to alleviate this issue. Our solution was to remove the crankshaft and replace with a redesigned rod bearing and oil delivery system. The mod cost is only $100, but requires an engine tear down and is beyond the scope of most owners. It is usually reserved for those who race.
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I've seen this mod at Zip Ty HQ. It's pretty awesome how Tinken and the guys figured out an ingenious solution.

If I recall correctly, there were quite a few of them getting ready to ship. Probably should be considered as standard procedure during a rebuild.
 
What kind of labor costs do you think we're talking about? My 310 is the only (and first) D/S I've got. I want to use it mostly for single-track and fire-roads, but this bike being street legal has opened up rides w/friends that definitely include some long stretches of highway pavement (20 plus miles at sustained 55mph). I know my bike isn't the right choice for this, but I sure want to go on these rides!
 
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