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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

BACKFIRE SCREEN REMOVAL

ducatijohn

ducatijohn

Husqvarna
A Class
I have a 2014 TE310. Some owners have recommended getting rid of the backfire screen behind the air filter. Has anyone encountered any problems if they are removed? Thanks.

John
Cary, NC
 
Many posts regarding the screen and many opinions. Some found no performance advantage while many figure better safe than sorry and leave it in due to the chance of ingesting something unpalatable.
 
I have seen some airscreen cutouts and to be honest it scares me to look at them. There are always bits of stainless mesh sticking out from where they were vulcanized to the boot waiting for vibration and all the other forces present (heat, shock, vacume etc) to dislodge them into the airflow.:eek:
 
No need to cut, it just sets between flange and filter...creating another surface to seal.
It looks restrictive and makes it harder to get a reliable seal.
 
I've left mine in for years now but filter change after filter change and cleaning the air box every time has made the screen a bit bent up and generally tough to deal with, and definitely not the best seal medium for the filter up against the air box. The only benefit I see is backfire / fire prevention as a few others have mentioned. I'm thinking of ditching the thing at this point.
 
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