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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bad Terra

Billy Coulter

Billy Coulter

Husqvarna
anyone had the bad luck with their Terra like me I bought mine in Dec when they first came out I work a lot so I don't get to ride much an I loved the bike it WAS wonderful but when I got home from a week of DS riding around Fl during bike week the problem started a week later I got it out of the garage to go riding with friends it would turn over but wouldn't start I checked all I could an nothing unplugged everything in order so I took it to my dealer well he's no longer a dealer an has sent his diagnostic equipment back because of the husky sell out but his mechanic tinkered with it for 2 weeks well one day it started (not really good)well I got to ride a couple times late may an June well I went riding first week in July well dam fender broke off 6weeks later I have a fender had it a week finally put it on an ready to ride pulled it out of the shop took off 20 miles from phone service I stopped for a break got back on an yep it will turn over but won't start POS I have a 7000$ Pos that I can't get fixed an cant trust it to take me to the store. Anyone have any ideas? It's a good thing I have my wife's 1995 yamaha TW200 that will start I made a 7000$ mistake
 
Try and look at the kickstand wires. If they get too much pull on them due to the zip tie and cable' don't ask Me how know. The safety could prematurely engage and not start.
 
roscotom said:
Try and look at the kickstand wires. If they get too much pull on them due to the zip tie and cable' don't ask Me how know. The safety could prematurely engage and not start.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the kickstand wiring or switch is faulty, it won't turn over at all, will it?
 
Start with the basics. Here is the troubleshooting chart for the symptom you are describing from the manual.
Have you at least had a shot at some of the simpler steps?
Check battery, check fuel, check spark, check plugs, check leads, etc.

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Thanks guys but all the basics have been checked the mechanic had the demo bike an he changed a few censors off of it to my bike including the kickstand safety an no luck an he said he just walked over to get it an move it to his work area an he hit the button an it started ?
 
Just for giggles:
  • Turn on key without touching anything else, especially the throttle.
  • Wait till the instrument cluster gets done with its' initial operation, then wait 2 more seconds.
  • Without touching the throttle press the start button.
  • If it does not start, then as it tries to start, open the throttle about 1/4.
 
Put it in neutral. The neutral switch, inside the tranny, does not always work proper. I thought there was a whole topic on this, maybe at ADV. And yours sounds quirky like his.
 
As I arrived to work this morning and was parking the bike, I put down the kickstand while it was still in gear with the clutch pulled in....it died. I typically put it in neutral long before dropping the kick stand, so this was new to me. Faulty clutch safety switch?
 
kjackbrown said:
As I arrived to work this morning and was parking the bike, I put down the kickstand while it was still in gear with the clutch pulled in....it died. I typically put it in neutral long before dropping the kick stand, so this was new to me. Faulty clutch safety switch?
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That switch is very tempermental. I ran into an issue with it a while back. Bike was in neutral, kickstand down, no start. Bike in neutral, kickstand up, no start. Bike in neutral, clutch in, kickstand up, no start. Cuss, scream, start a thread, check connections, disconnect battery, put it all back together and it fired right up. Never a problem since.

Eliminating that safety switch is on my to-do list. I don't have that on any of my other bikes, and I don't think it is necessary.
 
Billy Coulter said:
...it would turn over but wouldn't start...
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If it turned over then the clutch & side stand switch is not the problem.

kjackbrown said:
As I arrived to work this morning and was parking the bike, I put down the kickstand while it was still in gear with the clutch pulled in....it died. I typically put it in neutral long before dropping the kick stand, so this was new to me. Faulty clutch safety switch?
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That is exactly how my bike works, which I'm fairly sure is by design.
 
kjackbrown said:
As I arrived to work this morning and was parking the bike, I put down the kickstand while it was still in gear with the clutch pulled in....it died. I typically put it in neutral long before dropping the kick stand, so this was new to me. Faulty clutch safety switch?
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This is by design. My Honda works the same way. This is to ensure you do not try to take off with the stand down... not good! lol. If you are in neutral and shift into 1st with the bike running it should shut off too.
 
NLfireblade said:
If you are in neutral and shift into 1st with the bike running it should shut off too.
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Fairly sure you should be able to put it in first with the bike running, otherwise no forward motion will be accomplished...

Though yes, with the side stand DOWN and the bike running, engaging first gear or engaging first and releasing the clutch will shut off the bike
 
Tazzierob said:
Fairly sure you should be able to put it in first with the bike running, otherwise no forward motion will be accomplished...

Though yes, with the side stand DOWN and the bike running, engaging first gear or engaging first and releasing the clutch will shut off the bike
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The sidestand being down was implied... and I thought obvious :excuseme:
 
NLfireblade said:
This is by design. My Honda works the same way. This is to ensure you do not try to take off with the stand down... not good! lol. If you are in neutral and shift into 1st with the bike running it should shut off too.
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...so, then the TR does not have a safety switch on the clutch?
 
kjackbrown said:
...so, then the TR does not have a safety switch on the clutch?
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Yes. It does have a safety switch on the clutch, but that switch does not override the sidestand switch. The safety switch on the clutch allows you to start the bike in gear with the clutch pulled in and the stand up. The bike will not run in gear with the sidestand down, even if the clutch is pulled in. Every Japanese/American/Italian/German bike I have owned/ridden works the same way.
 
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