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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

610SM Strange Runnings

G

Gav

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi Guys

Typically when the sun comes out and you want to get out on the bike so do the Gremlins :(

Went for a ride today and had to turn around as I didn't want to get stranded. My bike has started acting up while riding along the dual carriageways.
I get up to speed of about 65 / 70 mph and then the bike starts to run strange like its cutting in and out. I would almost say its a fueling issue but I'm not sure.

I find with the bike that I will have to get up to speed in say 5th gear and when in 6th it won't pull so well. The bike starts ok, maybe 2 or three cranks and a blip of throttle to start first, it will idle at 1800rpm too.

Bike has the following

Power Up Kit : Husqvarna
JD Tuner : Set it all to 3 to eliminate this as the issue
Leovince x3 end can : No Spark arrestor fitted
Standard Airbox (not opened up)
Standard gearing
Iridium plug
New Temp sensor


I'm thinking it might be a fueling issue ? maybe the fuel pump is on the way out ?
I've seen that some people brought a after market pump as the Husky one is very expensive.

What are your thoughts ?
I may take the JD off to completely eliminate that from the equation.

What should I check, any help appreciated.
 
Heya Guys

Did anyone have any advice on the troubleshooting ?
Can a fuel pump be partly faulty ? It primes when I turn on the ignition and not had an issue before.
 
I had a very short issue of my 08 the 250 running funny like that. I thought it was some water in the gas...maybe ethanol related. Drained gas out and never happened again but can't really say. That was the advice from my dealer/mechanic friend as a first step remedy.
 
Well, the things you've thought of are often the culprits so you do of course want to look into anything related to fuel supply.

That said I've learned that Husky's have electrical gremlins that manifest themselves in interesting ways. For me- on my 630- I had the same symptoms you have had and what it turned out to be, in my case, was a part of the wiring harness (which leads to and connects to the voltage regulator) that had been worn through and was shorting intermittently- until it got bad enough to short out completely (leaving me stranded.) Mine was that part of the loom, and it was where it was routed under the battery tray and then up/alongside of the subframe. Point is- take off the tank and panels and start looking at every bit of wiring that you can. Here's a link to my experience:

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/stranded-again-please-advise.28288/
 
Cheers Guys

Have been busy the last couple of days so will try and get round to doing a bit one evening this week.
I'll go through those steps, Pull the Fuel pump and check the connections, prime it on the bench with a battery.
Check the wiring on the bike for any shorts.

It was almost as if the rev limiter was kicking in and shutting the bike down while riding.
I would be on throttle rather than cruising when it was doing this.

I managed to get back home but didn't fancy pushing the bike 10 miles :(
 
Just wanted to update anyone that has helped.

Problem is fixed.
I stripped the bike down today, Checked all the connections and put some contact cleaner in them.
Also replaced the Fuel filter and cleaned the air filter.

I did take the JD Tuner off too just to eliminate that, Have now refitted it and the bike is running better than ever.

Think the fuel filter had pulled in some crap and never been replaced before.

Total cost of fix, £3.50 and some time in the garage.
 
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