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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC Bens 2017 TE 300

robertaccio said:
interesting how light the shock springs are, certainly means lots of changes to linkage rates and chassis dimensional arrangement.
the forks seem very standard in the across the board rates among the other manufacturers, nothing out of the ordinary.
OEM calls out deep race sag of 110mm but very standard static of 35mm. thanks again for posting, remember the OEM does mega testing to mathematically get the chassis balance dialed in, work to match the balance they call out. and most of all have fun!!!
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The bike certainly feels a lot lighter than previous model not sure of the figures though. Still early days for me to criticise the suspension, I'll keep playing with setup.

It turns much better as well.

The 2 different engine maps feel noticeably different to previous model and older KTMs I've had.

Loving little touches like the new style air filter mount. It's impossible to get that bit wrong now.

The only small criticism I have is the location of the weep hole for gearbox oil check, it's right near the rear brake pedal and if you don't bend the spring out the way It could force you into cross threading the 8mm bolt.
Oh and the oil drain is now below the gear change, I found best way of draining the oil now is to cut an old 1ltr oil container in half length ways and slide it under drain hole in the shape of a funny looking funnel when draining.

Anyway 2 hrs on it now and it continues to impress me. Got a hill climb race this weekend can't wait :)
 
Opinion (my opinion) answer to the oil weep test hole.....I never use those things, they are always an easy strip away to a PITA.
dump oil and add recommended amount....a tiny bit more or less----its a 2T gearbox, not really a worry. I even scribe and marker the amount next to the fill plug. on my 2014 "OLD" 300 engine..it's 800cc

good move on the oil drain, funny I have a peeled off number graphic (vinyl I guess) that I keep for draining, to keep the oil from pouring into the skid plate, I just kind of roll it a bit like an open funnel, works great, easy to slide in and bend.
 
Benjimoto - there is a lot of discussion in Husky and KTM camps regarding jetting the Mikuni TMX. Do you have observations to share?
 
sheikyurbouti said:
Benjimoto - there is a lot of discussion in Husky and KTM camps regarding jetting the Mikuni TMX. Do you have observations to share?
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My husky came all set up ready for me. The jetting is set to the factory recommended settings as per the book. It feels very crisp and responsive. No problems at all.

So far I've trail ridden it and done a couple of races at low level and on rolling hills.
 
That seems so far from the issues a lot of people are having with at least their KTM's. One of the big issues seems to be the reed block cage and it's "warped" surface leading to the reeds not sealing. People are sanding them down and such. I wonder if there is a different source for Husky than KTM??
 
KennyMc said:
That seems so far from the issues a lot of people are having with at least their KTM's. One of the big issues seems to be the reed block cage and it's "warped" surface leading to the reeds not sealing. People are sanding them down and such. I wonder if there is a different source for Husky than KTM??
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Hmm like I said not had an issue.
KTMs and Husky are built in same factory.
They build the first batch of KTMs then turn the factory around to build the first batch of Huskys and then the same again for the second batches.

I'll keep an eye out. Done 10hrs on it so far.
 
racemx904 said:
A lot of that is internet crap.... A good friend owns a sharp dealer and seen nothing
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Could very well be. There seems to be a couple guys that are way into it, maybe too much and it's really not that important. Someone posted a picture of the old and new reed cages. New being on the left.
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Got mine last thursday from Bills Husky. They fit a '16 SA (bolts right up to subframe) then hacked off the pipe from the OEM silencer to get the right bend. Anyone an electrical contractor? You'll notice the conduit union Bill found. I have a TIG so I'll pull it off and weld it up, but hey - it's sano!
 
They appear to line up perfectly. The top of the rear mounting tab might been filed to fit into the rounded recess in the composite subframe. He might have slightly carved away a small amount of white plastic - I don't have a good pic to reference.
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Glad it's working out. I haven't jumped on any other bike since I bought my 15. I really like mine as well. They are great machines to say the least
 
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