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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Adventures with my TE310 - the beginning

I have seen the MP plastic-rimlocs and thought about getting them for the benefits you mention- I have seen them for both the front and rear- my only concern was reading of a few reports of them cracking- but I have no first hand experience...

I have concerns about your optional light mounted off the Clutch perch if you hit something or go down- just seems like too much for the perch to take. (I'd feel guilty if I didn't mention it, and it failed on you)

Bearings- you should be able to use your drift to grab the edge of the bearing and punch out- the center spacer should just drop out as soon as you get one of the bearings off.
Lay on floor or bench, Put the drift through the bearing hole- throught the spacer and grab the edge of the other bearing and pound downward- move the drift to the apposing side with every good hit so it doesn't get canted- they also make blind bearing removers with a slide hammer- but most of us do it the cheap way- I think....

kinda like this= if you can follow it>?

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Good luck
 
HUSKYnXJnWI said:
I have concerns about your optional light mounted off the Clutch perch if you hit something or go down- just seems like too much for the perch to take. (I'd feel guilty if I didn't mention it, and it failed on you)

Good luck
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Aahh...I forgot to mention my time as an engineering intern for Cummins Diesel...

The bracket between the clutch perch and the light is softer aluminum. Purposely a weaker link.


Thanks for the wheel bearing help. I found the DIY overhaul thread. Wasn't aware of the circlips under the seals.
For your assistance:
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Been building the baby room.


GiantLoop Fandango tankbag is on the counter, letting the seam sealer dry.
Wolfman Expedition saddlebags fit the bike really well.
1 gallon Rotopack is heavy but nice.
Waiting on CycleRack's sideplates to come in the mail.
Same with the TAT maps. Kinda taking forever...

4mm inner tube in the front tire, special ordered. Had to use a 3mm for the rear - previous owner put on a weird tire size. Didn't take long to learn how to change tubes/tires. Not as bad as folks make it seem.
Stuck in some MotionPro LiteLock rimlocks. Hoping they won't break (forged aluminum) and help balance out the heavy inner tubes.
Re-packed the wheel bearings with red super grease. Forgot the linkage bearings.
Slapped on MotorSportz rear rotor guard. Ordered two rears by mistake.
New chain from Ion (thanks again!)

TrailTech called me yesterday with a sponsorship offer.

Dealership ripped me off. Sold me a GoPro HD for $25 above everyone else.
Wants to host me with a radio station special...to bring them sales...but won't sponsor or help in any way at all. Free coffee...whoopee

another slut photo cause I'm too lazy for camera stuff today
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Nice bike, nice luggage, good grass, and a good kid... Thats a photo to frame, JT.


Look what finally arrived!

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Took more pics, but photobucket is crapping out today.
The box is LOADED with maps and rollcharts. Seperated by individual states in ziplock bags.
Nice touch that Sam signed the stickers, so some asshole doesn't just make his own (and sell them).
Somebody at CycleGear already tried buying the maps/coordinates from me.
 
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Dont trust that stock mirror to last the trip out of your driveway. Both of mine sheared off near the pivot point. The plastic is crap and suffers severely from fatigue
 
Best motorcycle mirror I've ever had, actually.
I'd like one for the other side.


Uploading the tracks on Garmin's MapSource has been brutal. Severely bad software.
 
Make the map, click install, go to sleep and wake up to joy or not.

I think I got nearly all the West Topo on a single 2GB SD card.
 
jtemple said:
Not as cool as what you're doing, but I rode my Husky to and throughout Colorado last year. 2500 miles in 5 days.
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Jesse, that is one beautiful setup. I really like the black and white bags. Oh, I hated to lose the look of the stock tank, but had to go to the white Safari.

Oh, I am also jealous of WbCherry's autographed TAT sticker; Sam didn't sign mine! Bawahhhh. In my idle moments I wish I was on the TAT again, and I just finished last year. I think my son and I will do CO, UT and NV sections this August, just for grins.

Ken
 
Anyone know a company that can sew a waterproof zipper onto my rain liner?
I've been calling around with no luck.
 
Kenneth Webb said:
Jesse, that is one beautiful setup. I really like the black and white bags. Oh, I hated to lose the look of the stock tank, but had to go to the white Safari.

Oh, I am also jealous of WbCherry's autographed TAT sticker; Sam didn't sign mine! Bawahhhh. In my idle moments I wish I was on the TAT again, and I just finished last year. I think my son and I will do CO, UT and NV sections this August, just for grins.

Ken
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Thanks. Sometimes the extra range of the Safari would have taken that "crap, where's the next fuel stop" feeling out of the trip. But, I just can't bring myself to put that behemoth on my bike. Now, if they made a black one that was about 4.5 gallons that fit the stock bodywork, we'd be in business.
 
WbCherry said:
Website is up, finally.
http://colobomacrusades.org/
Don't laugh too hard. It's my first site. Still working on it.


I gotta admit - I was hoping for a little more enthusiasm than just the few readers so far.
If you're reading and not commenting, chime in and let me know. It's not Dakar, but damn.
If I wanted to talk to 3 people, I'd just stop taking my medication.
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I was waiting for the book or maybe the movie!:thumbsup:
 
Seems it would be a responsible thing to do for you to go spend a weekend or two at an offroad training class. Also, if you do not get an external oil cooler you will go through more oil and put more strain on the engine than necessary - to the point that it might end your trip. I'm sure you've heard this plenty of times but the TE/TC/SMR bikes are meant to have top end work done far more often than you are planning, and you can't do it on the trail. Good luck - you might want to work a number of Husky dealership visits into your schedule for top end work, valve checks/adjustments, etc.

Saying and believing you can take what is very much a race bike on a trip that is better suited to a TE610, DRZ, or F650GS, etc... let's just say that there's a reason it wasn't designed for multi-thousand mile trips. And that's why I own a SMR450 and a F800GS. Right tool for the job.

Have fun. Buy more armor.

edit: ok I read every page of this thread. this is cracking me up. boy has first dirtbike, conquers world. hahah, man you would really do well to sell the TE and get a DRZ or KLR right now and eat the loss of money. have fun... you're gonna need way more time and patience and money than you have planned right now, and don't expect to get over any CO passes in May. :rolleyes:

Bookmarked... I'm here for the lulz :popcorn:
 
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