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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Anyone ditch the key?

MXRider

MXRider

Husqvarna
A Class
Im currently in a major strip down mode on my 09 450, Im eliminating everything that isnt needed, or adds unnecessary weight. Pretty much the last thing I need to ditch is the key. Has anyone done this on their bike and feel like sharing their method? Wiring is not one of my stronger points, lol.

My plan is to either use a push button switch like the newer Yamaha WR uses, or even a main circuit breaker that could be placed under the seat. Im wanting to do this because I dont want to forget the key when I go to the track, and I honestly dont need one on this bike.
 
Looking at the workshop manual- (the schematics are blurry)

there are 4 wires going to the ignition switch on page <m2> (listing colors as ? since I can't read it): ? right hand switch, ? dc circuit, ? fuses, ? power relay -- anyway hard to read
on M21 and m16 there are 2 described for the switch yellow goes to the fuses Brown goes to the relay.

The ignition switch appears to be a double pole double throw switch meaning it is one switch that controls two separate circuites on and off simultaneously. Those switches are less common to MC handelbar switches as far as I have seen- the Yamaha one is basically a common on off switch I assume.

I would have liked to have said to get some of the perch switches from Highway dirtbikes. If you find the right switch or could use 2 separate ones you'd have to disconnect the wires and check continuity by testing the connections when the swithc is on to figure it out what connects to what. I be someone has figured it out though. Its just kinda hard to read the schematics.

you may be able to run the dc on a switch and run the other that goes to the right hand switch as connected always- then just the red right hand switch would control power to the efi system.... now just thinking it over again. Just have to figure out the circuits and withc wires do what- by testing as colors are labled in schematic are blurry.

if nothing else I took a shot:busted:
 
thanks.
what I was thinking of doing is completing the wires in the ignition switch, so its like the key is always on. then add a circuit breaker to the hot side of the battery. will this have any adverse effects? I was curious if it were bad for the ECU and its settings if the power is cut from it often.

essentially what it would be like is unplugging the battery every time I turn off the bikes power.
 
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