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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Brand new te310

Stoye82

Stoye82

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just picked up a brand new 2012 te310 new to the forum but most of the things ive read on here influenced me to get the bike, anyways....plan on tearing it down and greasing every thing tomorrow as well as removing the throttle stop and that stupid kickstand bolt....most likely gonna try and do the breakin ride sat .... Wanted to try and get any advice any anyone can give me on breaking this bike in... What to look out for, anything and everything is appreciated thx
(And yes I did bring it into my bedroom)
Mom wasn't to happy about that one image.jpg image.jpg
 
Nice bike.... Do you plan to uncork it at all? Typically I would turn it on, let her idle for a few minutes. Turn off - look at oil window to make sure the oil is around 3/4 full at window (if it's full oil can get sucked through).. If that's all good and you greased everything, do gradual riding for first 50-250 miles (different people will say different things but thats the general rule of thumb). Change oil after 50-100 miles to make sure nothing abnormal is floating about - use synthetic oil. Keep revs low for as long as you can :p gradually rev it higher and higher as you put more miles.

Around 300-500 miles, ride it like you own it :cool: Keep changing oil every two to three rides, depending on how hard you are thrashing it and what not. Filter every other oil change.

I'd recommend uncorking - opening up air cage thing with your favorite sponge air filter, take out catalyic converter, plug lambda sensor, yada yada yada.. I'm sure others could elaborate more.

Enjoy the new ride :thumbsup:
 
Nice score dude! I would love a brand spanking new 310, that thing is the best of both worlds. Power and handling
 
Thanks, I'm really pumped on it... And henson yeah I do plan on uncorking it, ive read a couple other threads that go into detail but for now I plan in doing the greasin' tomorrow replacing the throttle stop and changing/cutting the suicide kick stand deal.... There's definitely alot more gonna be done but as funds are low for another week or so I plan on getting an easy couple hrs in this weekend and possibly next and then doing first oil change, and taking it from there just trying to get a feel on what everyone else is doing also can you point me in a good direction for the cat converter and sensor deal... Haven't heard much on thy yet
 
I personally hate the spring kickstand , I'm on a 2010 TE 250. Don't really use it much so don't care to change it out but I prefer some kind of throttle stop if kickstand is down or something.
 
I'm not sure about your bike but mine has this mum extended from the end of the kickstand bolt that causes the kickstand to fling back when ever you take the pressure off of it.... For me it's just one of those things that will really irritate me over time .... I'm not home so I can't take a picture of it to show you but I'm sure you get it
 
Be careful with the throttle stop. Those screws are JIS not Philips. Philips driver will just wreck them.
 
You can just cut the 'nub' off of the kickstand bolt. I left mine and actually like it.
Any careful breakin and maintenance (oil change schedule) will probably be fine - there's plenty of info here. Don't forget to keep checking your sag - the suspension and engine will tell you when it's time to let 'er rip. I ran mine thru 'heat cycles' where I rode fairly easy for maybe 20-30 minutes and shut if off - checked nuts and bolts and made adjustments to clickers, bar position - let it cool down and then again. I slowly picked up the pace as the engine broke in and by about 10 hours the bike started to feel much looser and revier - ready to go.
Enjoy it - and let us know how it compares to your old Yammie!
 
Shilo thanks for the heads up.....mike that's what I kinda figured ill get an easy couple hours tomorrow for the day probably staying pretty close to the truck(and the tools) and just make adjustments as I go and just try and stay on the heating/cooling cycles as much as possible..and then again next weekend until I can get about 50 or so miles on it then do the first oil change and take it from there .... And just from my ride up and down the street It felt really comfortable and suprisingly similar to my yz as far as like bar position and pegs..... Except loads more power i could tell even with the throttle stop
 
Update; got the first ride done yesterday the bike felt really comfortable and almost felt more comfortable standing than sitting(on my yz it was opposite).... Except of the fact at 5'7 I have a tough time touching the floor on some spots, definitely gonna get the kouba link and lower the forks in the clamps ended up getting 60 miles on the bike so far with 30 monute heating cooling cycles gonna do an oil change and take it out next weekend probably get another 60 miles and do the oil again and let her rip .... image.jpg
 
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