• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC A Little Disappointed...

Dirtdame

Dirtdame

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So....I have had my 2018 FE 501 for about a year now, and I have 1900 miles on it so far. Yesterday, during a dualsport ride, the clutch failed. It was annoying ride back to the parking area for sure. When I got home, I went to the dealer and bought an Oberon slave unit. It is an expensive fix, but I have heard that this is the best option. Then I washed the bike and installed the new unit. I also noticed that water got under the display cover on the odometer. I don't squirt the heck out of the odometer, so that is disappointing also. Not too impressed with these failures on the bike. It's too early in the bike's life for that. I hope there won't be any more for a while.
 
Most of our supermoto series is FS450's and the clutch slave has failed on about half of them. There's supposedly an updated one but the common fix is the go with the KTM one. Dealers are warranting them outside the window though
 
Are these Magura slaves that are failing? I had Brembo failures, years ago, on the KTM, but not for many year-models now.
 
FWIW, Mine had not failed but as preventive maintenance I used the Brembo parts out of the KTM 450/500 on my '17 FE450. Only difference is make sure to use the Brembo spring (its a larger diameter) and the Brembo piston uses an Oring instead of the seal like the Magura. Mine had a good chunk of white grease in the slave unit. Also the fluid did not smell like typical brake fluid. Works as good or better as original.
 
My son just bought a 19 501. First ride out on rocky dirt road passenger side blinker fell off, no crash just riding down the road. We put the tail kit on n no more issues but really!!!
 
Teambowles said:
My son just bought a 19 501. First ride out on rocky dirt road passenger side blinker fell off, no crash just riding down the road. We put the tail kit on n no more issues but really!!!
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Yeah, I blew up the stock underfender on about the third ride. Luckily, it is fairly cheap to replace, and I just cut the bottom half of the new one off. No problems with that since then.
 
My other son bought a 19 ktm excf 500 same bike basically, the little differences are comical really. I ended up with the six days excf 450 ktm and its so much smoother. All are very nice but quality control could be a little better. Such as the drivers side foot peg pin was upside down. For the money you'd think fit n finish would be a bit better.
 
Mine failed at 200 hours. Got a different spec o-ring from Riders Edge Husqvarna in Vernon, BC for $5 and haven't had an issue since. No need for a whole new slave cylinder...
 
SSPhoto said:
Mine failed at 200 hours. Got a different spec o-ring from Riders Edge Husqvarna in Vernon, BC for $5 and haven't had an issue since. No need for a whole new slave cylinder...
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Really? You should post up a brand/part number for this o-ring. Nobody else on the forums I have participated in seems to know about this important, but somehow well kept secret.
 
Dirtdame said:
Really? You should post up a brand/part number for this o-ring. Nobody else on the forums I have participated in seems to know about this important, but somehow well kept secret.
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Contact Riders Edge Suspension in Vernon, BC. Don't know the part #/source, they stock the seal as they know it's a common problem and easy fix.
 
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