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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

268fords said:
Easy tiger. I didn't call your shop into question at all. I know exactly who your boss is. I've been to your shop before. I'm not assuming this on my past experience. And in your post, you don't mention what shop you worked at. And when I purchased my husky, Motoxotica stickers were on it. After meeting with Dan, I was directed to this site when it was new. Coffee(Dean) had made this site possible because there was hardly any info out there on husqvarna motorcycles. The only info in magazines, were completely biased towards these bikes.
Click to expand...

It shouldn't matter what the shop was. There is no reason for you to to respond to my post in a personal condescending manner. There is enough information posted for a reasonable mind to comprehend that:

A, I had a personal relationship with the shop and could trust their opinion.

B, It was a large shop and the persons referenced were not sales persons (parts and service) and didn't have a financial dog in the fight.

C, Your parroting another poster that falsely thought I was somehow demeaning to a brand that I love. Go figure.
 
you're gonna love that 350! I'm impressed with that motor- it really pulls down low and, yet, still revs up high. My buddy's fe350 will pull my 310r in a drag race (barely) by the time I get into 5th (I might have a half of a wheel before 3rd).

The 350 tranny has the best spread of gears on any bike I have ever been on: 1st is almost trials-like; 6th is good for 80+mph.

Hope the boss says yes!
 
btw MX... if you're gonna sell your TE310 or trade it in- just get the two valve springs to repair the exhaust valve. You will not get any of your money back if you do a full valve job or rings too.

Like someone else intimated, there are ways to change the springs without removing the head (using compressed air is one way). I've never done it or even seen it done, though. And try rotating the valve to insure the stem is not bent, if you can.

Also- do you know if the springs themselves are titanium on the blackheads? it's weird that husky had trouble with 'em and switched back.

hey, was the spring that broke on the valve that the ADC actuates?

good luck.
 
Trenchcoat85 said:
...

Also- do you know if the springs themselves are titanium on the blackheads? it's weird that husky had trouble with 'em and switched back.....k.
Click to expand...

Although I am not privy to why decision was made to go back to steel cost of titanium is a major factor for sure. Both material and machining costs are super high for titanium. Ole cost to benefit ratio, weight savings for valvertain components on one hand and company bottom line on the other.
 
Trenchcoat85 said:
btw MX... if you're gonna sell your TE310 or trade it in- just get the two valve springs to repair the exhaust valve. You will not get any of your money back if you do a full valve job or rings too.

Like someone else intimated, there are ways to change the springs without removing the head (using compressed air is one way). I've never done it or even seen it done, though. And try rotating the valve to insure the stem is not bent, if you can.

Also- do you know if the springs themselves are titanium on the blackheads? it's weird that husky had trouble with 'em and switched back.

hey, was the spring that broke on the valve that the ADC actuates?

good luck.
Click to expand...
Thanks Trenchcoat85 I pulled the head off to inspect everything else. I'm going to do as you suggest and just replace the one spring set unless the others are out of spec. I want a clean conscience when I sell it. As for the actuator. Apparently it was installed backwards at the factory. How it ran with a constantly decompressing chamber is a mystery but it might explain why head and valves only had soft carbon that wiped off easily with wd40 on a rag. Hopefully I'll be able to find a machine shop that can fix it. Thanks for the pointers.
 
I wanted to hate the Austrian bikes, I really did...But you know what, our business is down because the fact is *we don't sell nearly as many replacement parts* for the new bikes as we do/did for the Italian bikes.

They're pretty awesome.

I bought a 2015 TC250 and love it every bit as much as my Italian and Swedish Huskys.
 
JonXX said:
I wanted to hate the Austrian bikes, I really did...But you know what, our business is down because the fact is *we don't sell nearly as many replacement parts* for the new bikes as we do/did for the Italian bikes.

They're pretty awesome.

I bought a 2015 TC250 and love it every bit as much as my Italian and Swedish Huskys.
Click to expand...

LoL. Once they became 10 y old your business will pick up, no worries Jon. I am not shelling 10G on a scooter BTW, It's not happening :-)
 
JonXX said:
I wanted to hate the Austrian bikes, I really did...But you know what, our business is down because the fact is *we don't sell nearly as many replacement parts* for the new bikes as we do/did for the Italian bikes.
They're pretty awesome.
I bought a 2015 TC250 and love it every bit as much as my Italian and Swedish Huskys.
Click to expand...
Yes, if they improved and my guess is they have, thats a good thing. Sorry to hear your the new Maytag repairman. hu hu, These bikes are very expensive, all the more reason to invest in proper maintenance. Today I was at my old shop picking up parts for the 2011 TE310. I decided to get new full wrap hand guards. The KTM part # is identical to the Husky part #. Price was about $20 cheaper ordering thru Husky. I'm guessing thats a mistake. BTW, even the KTM price is cheaper than the similar Acerbis Rally III guards.
 

Attachments

  • X003.jpg
    X003.jpg
    30 KB · Views: 25
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top