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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

getting rid of TE310

R_Little said:
My '10 TE250 is finially running good....did take more messing with than anyother bike I've owned and I still would not dare race it of take it far off road.

I gotta say if you can deal with limited power and don't race, the Yamaha WR250r is a good little DS bike.

Does 70mph on the highway too.
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2008 wr had issues with fuel pump. Happens around 4000 miles. I was fortunate that the owner before had an extended warranty. Just giving you a heads up if you go that route.
 
Thanks for the info. No easy choices. No Beta dealers around here.
Just dropped the 310 at the dealers. They are decent guys, just as frustrated as I am with the 310.
They have a TE-511 on the floor. Does the 511 have similar issues?
 
Frustration often leads to another frustrating decision....well I ain't Confuscious but thats what it seems like in these situations. I think it boils down to Murphy's Law though.

My IT200 was re-sleeved to a 230 back in the 80's when it was my dad's bike. It would foul plugs, seize up more often than not, and eventually went through 2 cylinder barrels, a couple of sleeves, and 3 bores each. Thats only if it didn't just get a head gasket leak, or a stuck ring now and then, or a pulled head stud from constant disassembly/reassembly. After Dad popped for a then new KDX 200 in the early 90's, he sold it to me. I put extra spark plugs in the tool bag, ran it just slightly on the rich side, and got 15 years of good hard riding out of it on the same bore/piston before it stuck a ring a few years back.

Always pissed Dad off that it just kept right on tickin, and I was much harder on it too! Oh and the Mikuni carb never missed a beat baby, just sayin...:excuseme:

Hope you can keep from throwing good money after bad, and that you don't have to get a new bike. I saw the 2012 511 yesterday though...it's NICE!
 
have to believe some of the pump issues are 2 fold, pisss poor fuel, and that the pump needs to sit covered to stay cool, if you run them low enough, they will overheat. i thought that george had a new, trick pump for the efi bikes... ???
 
the fuel is what it is: premium pump gas. I have a vague recollection that it's not as bad here as in USA, but don't really know.
Tank was full when it died, but failure may have started earlier, it was occasionally hard to start in Moab (where it was on the American gas, come to think of it !)

Due to the current distributer confusion in Canada, cannot even get parts for the 310.
I've not seen any info on aftermarket pump to fit the x-lites; somebody chime in if they know where to get it.

Looking at the TE511, KTM 350 EXC or KTM 500 EXC. All fuel injected :banghead:
 
fasteer said:
what, where, who, please?
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http://www.ca-cycleworks.com/fp-hus


A small item to carry along. Might save a walk,

This LOOKS like the same uunit.

http://www.af1racing.com/store/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=5926

Aprilia. Better or different ....don't know. Cheaper maybe. Also a fuel filter ($25) and o-ring for replacement parts.

And here's OHR's story on this. He explored the unknown, like Capt. Kirk.

http://www.apriliaforum.com/forums/...uel-pump-replacement-on-Husqvarna-AND-RXV-SXV
 
Just a little something we did in the marine industry. We were having problems with efi and just plain old electric fuel pumps going bad in the 90's and early 2000 (I stopped working there in 05) in the new H.P. marine engines. gm told us to recommend adding a little Marvel Mystery Oil. It seemed to make a big difference. I know there have been threads about this, but I run it in every motor I own and have never had a electric pump failure. I could just be lucky. And i am talking about cars and trucks with well over 100,000 miles on them. The way I look at it, it couldn't hurt.
 
I second what wait4me says, but my additive of choice is a few CCs of 2 stroke oil. As for the original topic my opinion is to get your existing 310 up and going using the ca-cycleworks.com pump and the automotive fuel filter and pickup screen as detailed in OHR's post.
 
fasteer said:
I read that this does not fit the 2011 and up TE 310. Can anyone confirm?
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true. I was at Bills and they just received the "2011-2012" IMS large tanks. We were perplexed when looking at it because the 2011 and up has a crazy setup with two petcocks, two plates on the tanks and bunch of hoses in the tank. the 2010 just had the one pump in the side like the one posted. With all that said if you were wanting more fuel capacity now would be the time to switch over to the big tank and older style pump.
 
There is nothing on the IMS site about 2011-2012 tanks... I just checked 20 minutes ago.
 
mnb said:
There is nothing on the IMS site about 2011-2012 tanks... I just checked 20 minutes ago.
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Not surprised. Might be true but I was standing in Bill (BMP) and the box had just arrived and we looked at it. Whats odd is it took forever to build and looks like the 2010 tank and needs the old pump WTF? Call Bills if interested in the details.
 
fasteer said:
the fuel is what it is: premium pump gas. I have a vague recollection that it's not as bad here as in USA, but don't really know.
Tank was full when it died, but failure may have started earlier, it was occasionally hard to start in Moab (where it was on the American gas, come to think of it !)

Due to the current distributer confusion in Canada, cannot even get parts for the 310.
I've not seen any info on aftermarket pump to fit the x-lites; somebody chime in if they know where to get it.

Looking at the TE511, KTM 350 EXC or KTM 500 EXC. All fuel injected :banghead:
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Check with BMP in Salem Oregon.... http://billshusky.com... I think they can ship parts to Canada Ask for Bryon.
 
wait4me said:
Just a little something we did in the marine industry. We were having problems with efi and just plain old electric fuel pumps going bad in the 90's and early 2000 (I stopped working there in 05) in the new H.P. marine engines. gm told us to recommend adding a little Marvel Mystery Oil. It seemed to make a big difference. I know there have been threads about this, but I run it in every motor I own and have never had a electric pump failure. I could just be lucky. And i am talking about cars and trucks with well over 100,000 miles on them. The way I look at it, it couldn't hurt.
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MM is a wonderful product. But I am not telling! :cheers:
 
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