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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Are the new Huskys more reliable than the Italian models?

What a journey this thread has been. :applause: Congrats on the new new. I've got the 2011 TE310 myself, precisely because I didn't want to shell out the cash for what was the new KTM 350 at the time. An injected, punched out 250, plated from factory for $5k... all in! Luckily I've had great luck with the bike, even surviving my first BBTR Big Bear Run after blowing a hose and pushing it to the finish! :D
 
Ok, guess it's time to post an update to this. May 26th. It's got about 3,700 miles on it, mostly dirt. I change the oil + fiter and cleaned the oil pick up screen every 3 to 5 hundred miles except the last time. I screwed up and it went about 1,400 miles. Been running Bel Ray Thumper Ester 4T and started adding Maxi Lube about 1,400 miles back. Cleaned the air filter and lubed chain typically around 3 to 4 hundred miles. Cleaned brake pads and rotors every 1,500 miles. I'm running off road as far as smog equipment with a remapped ecu and off road airbox. My off road speed is, cruz with my buddies but I do get sucked back into race pace when I see dust up ahead so it's mostly a spirited pace mixed with some aggressive short race speed rides. BTW, I raced my buddies 17 Beta 500 and maybe I get the jump each time but I pull him from a rolling start around 45mph to about 70, thats when he starts the charge. I'm hanging onto his back tire up till about 90 mph so I'm happy with the unleashed motor mods. Ok, I still haven't done the valve lash check since the 100 mile checkup. I'll get to that soon. So the only problem I can report is that I've been spending money on bling and protection equipment. Nothing has failed unless you count the original tires. Crashed twice because of those things. Heres how its looking now. IMG_4557.JPGIMG_5245 2.JPGIMG_7955.JPG
 
Trenchcoat85 said:
That is great news!

do you think you picked up an extra hp or two? is it easy to start? how much did a single spring cost (and is it still titanium)?

next time I'm down in Big Bear/Arrowhead, I'm looking forward to the nickle tour. ...of course- last time I was there was 35 years ago on a big fire, so don't hold your breath :oldman:.
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the valves are ti, but the springs are a conventional valve spring quality steel.
 
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