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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

A bad night in my garage.

Good that you fingered it out. At least it only ate a gasket. Hope it makes it through the rest of your season. Perhaps this would be a good time to go for the race contingency program?
 
Well I got the motor put back together and made my race. All in all the assembly went well. The only hang ups I had were making sure I had the auto cam chain tensioner correct and the exhaust cam timing was off one tooth. I put the engine on TDC before I took it apart. However, while sliding the cylinder over the piston the crank spun just a little which would put the cams out of time. I re-found TDC and got the intake cam aligned but the exhaust cam seemed either too high on one tooth or too low on the other tooth so I picked one, turned the motor over manually to make sure nothing hits. Put it all back together and it wouldn't start. Changed the suspect exhaust cam to what then looked like the wrong position but- whoo ha fired right up.

The race started and- ran like absolute crap! No power, died every time I pulled in the clutch, didn't really idle very well, wouldn't start well and so on. First couple of blocks I thought I needed to find the first exit out. Being their was no exit out I ran the 1st 14 mile loop. But, the longer it ran the better it ran. I ended up running the whole race and by the end it was running pretty well. Not quite 100% but good. The only thing that makes sense to me is that with the flooded incident the fuel injector got dirty as well. I wonder if I can clean it or if I have to replace it. Well see.

Either way, 55 miles of moto later and the oil and coolant kept to their own compartments so I'm happy.
 
COngrats on the liquids remaining separate and minimal parts to get you there. you are lucky!! Hopefully the rest get sorted out. I guess at this point I'd double check your timing and valve clearances.

I know there is the thread- foolproof cam timing, but also wondered if there was a mark somewhere on the crank/flywheel that would identify TDC- other than turning the crank till the piston is flush- is there any way to identify TDC on Husky's? There are 2 separate marks that identify TDC on KTM RFS's one on crank and another on the flywheel. Just curious- for if/when I get into this motor I want to have a full Check list to mark off.
 
I just cleaned my injector - not too hard. On my TXC it was held in place with bolts not screws so no problem getting it out. Hooked up a 9v battery thru an on/off button to cycle the injector. put the injector in a fuel proof container and used carb/choke cleaner (a mechanic friend suggested brake cleaner). Be careful - the cleaner is nasty. Eye protection, keep the stuff off of mild plastic cause it will eat it up. Have a new o-ring handy - I failed to remove mine and the cleaner ate it up.
 
I soaked the injector in carb cleaner for a couple days after I removed the seals. All seems well, powers back, idles well, starts well Ect. Thanks for the tip MikeB.

huskynxjnwi, I got nothing from the manual that I could find on the crank being on TDC with the xlite motor. Had to do it through the plug hole. However, turning the crank with a breaker bar on the stator side was super easy.
 
wowoo ... More bazaarness to your story... Glad to hear you have it sorted out ...

JasonfromMN said:
Well I got the motor put back together and made my race. All in all the assembly went well. The only hang ups I had were making sure I had the auto cam chain tensioner correct and the exhaust cam timing was off one tooth. I put the engine on TDC before I took it apart. However, while sliding the cylinder over the piston the crank spun just a little which would put the cams out of time. I re-found TDC and got the intake cam aligned but the exhaust cam seemed either too high on one tooth or too low on the other tooth so I picked one, turned the motor over manually to make sure nothing hits. Put it all back together and it wouldn't start. Changed the suspect exhaust cam to what then looked like the wrong position but- whoo ha fired right up.

The race started and- ran like absolute crap! No power, died every time I pulled in the clutch, didn't really idle very well, wouldn't start well and so on. First couple of blocks I thought I needed to find the first exit out. Being their was no exit out I ran the 1st 14 mile loop. But, the longer it ran the better it ran. I ended up running the whole race and by the end it was running pretty well. Not quite 100% but good. The only thing that makes sense to me is that with the flooded incident the fuel injector got dirty as well. I wonder if I can clean it or if I have to replace it. Well see.

Either way, 55 miles of moto later and the oil and coolant kept to their own compartments so I'm happy.
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