• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC Downloadable Service Manual Availability

It's not downloadable (unless you know a very good decryption hacker dude), it's $25.19 USD and covers FC/FE 14-16 models.
 
How are you prevented from copying the PDF file? I know there are settings to prevent copying text/images from the PDF, but I don't know how someone could be prevented from copying the file, itself.

Even if it was password protected and encrypted, the password could just be shared.

What exactly happens when you copy the file and try to open it on another device?
 
AndrewS said:
How are you prevented from copying the PDF file? I know there are settings to prevent copying text/images from the PDF, but I don't know how someone could be prevented from copying the file, itself.

Even if it was password protected and encrypted, the password could just be shared.

What exactly happens when you copy the file and try to open it on another device?
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Technically possible but illegal - copyright laws. $25 seems reasonable for a repair manual.
 
I would agree, except ordering it to Canada, it ends up costing from $53-$60.

I tried to order it locally, but they didn't even have a listing for it, possibly because they're a KTM dealer, not Husqvarna.

They should have just included it with the bike.
 
AndrewS said:
How are you prevented from copying the PDF file? I know there are settings to prevent copying text/images from the PDF, but I don't know how someone could be prevented from copying the file, itself.

Even if it was password protected and encrypted, the password could just be shared.

What exactly happens when you copy the file and try to open it on another device?
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In order:

It's not a PDF file

It requires the disc to operate, not a password

Upon attempting to open the file (really a self-contained application), a window appears instructing you to insert the disc. If you don't, within 30 seconds the self-contained application shuts down, and you realize that you have a useless 9GB file on your computer.
 
I don't use the service manuals on a daily basis, so I really can't speak with authority on their functionality other than to say that they're very different, and at my cursory glance over them when installing them on our terminals, they're very well done and laid out.

The parts manuals are awesome though! The main sections are Frame and Engine, then labelled subsections within each, and the subsections are divided into smaller chunks. In some sections it's better, in other sections you still play the "what did they put this with" guessing game. In a parts grouping page it's pretty cool, you can mouse over a part reference number on the drawing and it'll light up the part number and description in the sidebar. Likewise, if you mouse down the sidebar where the part numbers and descriptions are, it'll light up the reference number in the drawing. Then you can click on things and generate a parts list (which, if you don't print or screenshot, will disappear when you close the application).
 
I think it's really a matter of KTM being very saavy about not letting money slip through their fingers. It takes a long time to put together a good manual, especially if they are interactive. They want to recoup those costs.
 
Good news for me! A closer bike shop (about an hour away) just became a new Husqvarna dealer.

I was able to order the Workshop DVD through them for $30, along with some other Husky parts.

It's too bad, though, as they used to be be half that distance. Then again, they almost closed up shop before moving, so I shouldn't complain.
 
my issue is my pc nor laptop have a cd rom - kinda a obsolete thing with usb flash drives. i had to buy a external one.
 
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