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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

better off leaving it dirty

aai

aai

Husqvarna
AA Class
help? I washed my bike (11 TE 250) for the first time yesterday and now it wont fire up, but turns over no problem with e-start. I kicked it about 20 times and finally got it to start. I rode it for about 10 minutes then shut it off and restarted it with the e- start and fired right up like normal. I tryed to start it again with the e- start today and the same thing wont fire up, turns over no problem. I checked all the fuses yesterday at the rear and it did run after I got it started. Is there something under the tank that I got wet? Thanks for any info.
 
Do you hear the fuel pump pressurize when you turn the key? My guess would be some moisture at the fuel pump relay, at the injector (that connection is not very water resistant) or at the coil. It could have dried up during the 10 minute ride then some more water migrated and caused the short again.

I would suggest pulling all the relays, the FI connectors, and the coil wires and giving everything a good helping of dielectric grease.
 
thanks Monty, yes I hear the fuel pump pressurize every time I hit the e-start or kick it. Ill hit the store and get some dielectric grease, where is the coil located? Do I need to take tank off?
edit: just looked it up on USB manual, thanks again
 
When I wash my Husky, I never use a stream of water that will get under the tank, near the control/headlight area, handlebar switches, engine electrics. I mostly use running water to clean the fender wells, wheels, under-carriage. I've also mounted a front fender tip on my skidplate that keeps ALOT of mud and crap from up under my gas tank area.

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lesson learned, I thought I was being careful but apparently not enough. I did as Monty described. I applied dielectric grease on possibly 15 plus connecters except for the grey one connected to the yellow connecter on top of the fuel injection. I couldnt get it off and probably the main culprit. Unfortunately it didnt start with the e-start again but I was able to kick it and fired up on the third try. When it did fire up, I pulled the cold start lever and rpms did not rise right away, it did after 10 seconds lazily then started acting normal. Anyways, this time I took it out on the highway for 5 miles and maybe let mother nature (wind) do her thing to dry out the culprit :-) I did let it sit for an hour and it fired right up with the e-start again. Tomorrow morning will be the real test. Taking the good with the bad..Ive learned to take the tank off and disconnect all the wiring..Ill put that right up there with the taking your door panels off your new car for the first time LOL. Mostly, dielectric grease on all electrical connections is a must task for all the bikes annually from now on cause it just feels right.
 
Well that is a little troubling that you had the same symptom, but then I see you didn't do the top FI connector, and that is the one that is highly susceptible to getting wet. I expected you to find some obviously wet connection but since you didn't, I'm wondering if there might be a different cause.

The e-start no / kick start yes is making me suspect something else. If you experience these symptoms again, I would load-test the battery under starting conditions. It could be that you are drawing enough current to spin the starter, but there is not enough left over for the FI. That is sort of a stab in the dark though, hopefully you won't have any more troubles.
 
I just tried to start it with the e-start and didnt fire up. I kicked it and it fired right up 2nd kick. I let it idle about 30 seconds, turned it off. I immediately used the e-start and it fired up like normal...hhhmm..the grey connector to the yellow connector, what does it exactly do? Its the only one I didnt take apart and cleaned/greased. Its weird that the e-start works normally afterwards once I get it to fire up initially by kickstarting and shutting it off. So I might assume the e-start switch is functioning ok. The battery is a new Shorai I just put in a few weeks ago. Im thinking its not getting fuel with e-start from the beginning. edit: I just put the oem battery back in and Ill try again tomorrow.
 
The Grey connector on top of the Throttle Body goes on to the "yellow" Injector . There is a little "tab" to push in before you can pull the connector off .

I suspect your "Shorai" Battery . I have tried a couple of these light weight "super" batteries, always with negative results !

With the EFI you need good voltage when turning the engine over . Your battery may well crank the bike over OK , but what voltage is left for the EFI ???

I have gone back to the standard Yuassa Batteries .
 
Check the safety switch on the clutch perch. Might be soaked, damaged or barely connected. If you disconnect it, short the two ends together and e-start suddenly starts working every time, you've found it.
 
ioneater said:
Check the safety switch on the clutch perch. Might be soaked, damaged or barely connected. If you disconnect it, short the two ends together and e-start suddenly starts working every time, you've found it.
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Dont think he has one on 2011/2012 (Brembo) set up ?

There is not one fitted on European bikes anymore .
 
to many moving parts
my 300 didnt start after a real wet ride diconect kill swich and bang first kic no e start just anther thing to let you bown LOL:doh:
 
thanks for the input fellas.. its still the same this morning. Will not e-start on cold start, but will start,via kickstarting it. Once idling for a minute I can shut it on/off and start it with the e-start as normal. Its when it sits for about an hour, thats when the e-start will not fire it up. I changed the battery back to oem and still the same, both batteries have 1 month use on them...Im pretty happy with the shorai purchase. All this started because I washed the friggin bike and got something wet (driver error but gawd damn)....anyways maybe, Im thinking it has to do with fuel at cold start. When Im kicking it I dont use the enrichner lever or giving it gas. It will fire up eventually. What I noticed is that once I get it started its at high idle on its own as if the enrichner lever is pulled. After a few seconds I pull the enrichner it lazily goes up in rpm then by the time it warms up it acts normal, like blipping the throttle when pulling it in. On a side note I understand the water-temp sensor can short out and can screw things up. It suppose to tell if the bike is hot or cold at startup correct? and to add fuel or not..IDK..Its bolted at the back side of the head and susceptible to water. Appreciate you alls input and thoughts on the matter, its going back to the dealer for its only a month old :-( and will post up on their findings..
 
Washing a bike completely with a garden hose(including up under the tank etc.) shouldn't cause any issues with the electrical- these things are designed to be ridden thru water up to the seat. Although neither of my bikes is FI, I always give them a thorough soak, even up under the tank & have never had any issues; I wash them about 20-30x a season.
It's possible that some water has gotten in somewhere, but it's also possible that another issue has popped up co-incidently with the bike wash.
 
When I wash my bike (TE510) the dash goes crazy, but never has had any starting/running issues.

My old KDX loved to be guerney'd but I am very adamant/careful when washing my new one. Dielectric grease everything, perhaps take some cowling off and leave for a good bake in the sun all day. Get the inox into everything as well.

But I do agree with slopoke, enduro bikes are/should be designed to handle water to a certain degree. Imagine the pressure of water hitting all those little nooks and crannys when you hit a puddle at 100+ km/h.
 
Hay nissmo inox is the ticket when I get home bikes dirty ct18 hay presto spotless after 5or6 rides full strip down start agen ps just sold Dato 1200 ute wrc blu 3pc wheel gold centers Wrx seats. Cheers cheko
 
DG Harv Serv said:
Dont think he has one on 2011/2012 (Brembo) set up ?

There is not one fitted on European bikes anymore .
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I don't know if there would be a difference between Euro and NA bikes in that regard. I don't know how the 2010 + TE's are set up for safety lockouts as a matter of fact. I was thinking about my 08 510 and assuming US dual sport requirements haven't changed. Being able to kick it but not thumb it brought me back to that issue on an older 08 TE.
 
Lol Cheko thats the go :)

Inox is my best freind. I would like to spray it on my corn flakes if I could. Magical stuff.
 
ay best thing about it my mate gets it from work for me. i think you can eat it its food grade or sumthig:popcorn: might be on to sumthig maken pop cornEbay datsun 002.jpg
(pic of my 1200)
 
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thanks for the input fellas.. its still the same this morning. Will not e-start on cold start, but will start,via kickstarting it. Once idling for a minute I can shut it on/off and start it with the e-start as normal. Its when it sits for about an hour, thats when the e-start will not fire it up. I changed the battery back to oem and still the same, both batteries have 1 month use on them...Im pretty happy with the shorai purchase. All this started because I washed the friggin bike and got something wet (driver error but gawd damn)....anyways maybe, Im thinking it has to do with fuel at cold start. When Im kicking it I dont use the enrichner lever or giving it gas. It will fire up eventually. What I noticed is that once I get it started its at high idle on its own as if the enrichner lever is pulled. After a few seconds I pull the enrichner it lazily goes up in rpm then by the time it warms up it acts normal, like blipping the throttle when pulling it in. On a side note I understand the water-temp sensor can short out and can screw things up. It suppose to tell if the bike is hot or cold at startup correct? and to add fuel or not..IDK..Its bolted at the back side of the head and susceptible to water. Appreciate you alls input and thoughts on the matter, its going back to the dealer for its only a month old :-( and will post up on their findings..
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ay aai my old smr was an ass to start some day i think its the way u hold you tung LOL i found it just liked 3 pumps of the throttle :thumbsup: cheers mate cheko
 
Maybe its not the washing. The Husky needs a full charged battery to fire up cold. They may well turn over but not fast enough to induce ignition. Check your volts prior to next start and see what you have. If is say 11.5 or 12 volts it might struggle cold.
I keep mine on a trickle charge and all is sweet.
 
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