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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

610 ground cable connection point

B

bacon

Husqvarna
Hi All -

Just picked up a 2009 SM610 that needed some work. Put in a new battery and the electronics came to life (dash, fuel pump, etc). When I go to start it, as soon as I touch the starter the dash shuts off and I hear a click from the starter relay at the left rear of the bike. After trying to trace some wires and noticing that the both the positive and negative battery leads were quite hot, I noticed that the cable from the negative side of the battery goes to the lug on the starter (along with the positive coming from the relay).

I know some hack was in here before so this doesnt surprise me, but I cannot figure out where the factory ground location for the battery cable is. Can anyone help? Ive looked int the service manual and in parts diagrams, but I cant seems to find anything other than images showing the cable going to ground. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
 
I have a fuel injected 2008 and here is what you can see on the starter motor (with a loosened screw; I took this pic years ago before removing the motor):
motor.jpg
I've never learnt much about the electric part of engines so in order to possibly help you further I need some clarifications about which is the cable whose routing I'm supposed to find out.
Is it one of the two in this picture?
cable.JPG
 
Hi mate,

Fat cable (8ga) goes from negative straight to starter motor on my carb 2006, then the thin one (14ga?) goes from negative straight to ignition coil ground. This also grounds the chassis.

The efi bikes are probably different, I think I have a wiring diagram for them I can look at.

Either way there should be one thick negative thing to starter motor. The chassis should be grounded separately to the battery.
 

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