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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Going from an 1999 XR400 to a 2009 TE250

kota45

kota45

Husqvarna
Made a deal to buy a 2009 TE250 and am hoping I've made the right decision. I've been riding Honda XR's for a long time, and although I'm used to them, I'm tired of the weight and kickstart. What kind of power difference do you think I'll encounter? From what I can tell, they are about the same. Looking forward to coming out of the stone age and into the era of electric start, EFI, sweet suspension, water cooled, etc!
 
You have 1999 TE250 in 2 places and I think you meant 2009 TE250. How many miles on the TE250.

You have the last year of the big block 250 motors, it's a good motor, you should get a replacement fuel pump from CAcycleWorks and keep it handy.
 
kota45 said:
Made a deal to buy a 1999 TE250 and am hoping I've made the right decision. I've been riding Honda XR's for a long time, and although I'm used to them, I'm tired of the weight and kickstart. What kind of power difference do you think I'll encounter? From what I can tell, they are about the same. Looking forward to coming out of the stone age and into the era of electric start, EFI, sweet suspension, water cooled, etc!
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i to have ridden xr's for a long time.6 months ago got the te310 2012 model, it was at first a very foreign experience, power delivery totally different, but am making small mods and every ride am getting a handle on it
suspension is amazing, light weight amazing, button start fantastic , would never go back to kick starting
i think you will take time to get in tune with it but will be very pleased when you do
 
I just had a 2.5 year old, aftermarket fuel pump die on me, in the field. Luckily, I was able to get an auto pump to work and was able to ride out. I had been saying for 2 years, that I wanted to have a spare pump on me for insurance, and it would have saved me time and money if I would have had it on me.
 
kota45 said:
How prevalent is this alluded fuel pump issue? Keep it handy as in carry in backpack?
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duggoey said:
My bike is nearly 3 years old and never had a problem.
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09TE450, same set up... I am into my 5th season/year and have not had an issue with my pump. This bike has never left me stranded.
However, Pumps, relays, fuses can go bad, I would never discourage anyone from having spares of anything, especially depending on the type of riding they do and location. I carry spare fuses.
Be very careful about what goes into your tank- efi pumps are more vulnerable to wear and damage from dust dirt debris than petcocks and carbs and takes more to fix than dropping the float bowl and blowing out jets. That said, I have had less gas on my hands and garage floor since the move to efi. Its been very stable and reliable, easy to work with once familiar with the system and components and you gain some confidence in it.

I've never ridden that 250/310 model, I've ridden the xlite 310. Compared to the Honda 400, the power will be in the higher rpms, with more clutch work required right off idle in tight spots. This is just a difference in delivery and with that difference you'll have to adopt a slightly different riding style. Give it time and adjust to the bike.
let er' rip:thumbsup:
 
You will notice a HUGE difference when you have to pick the bike up. The good news is, you can stop doing the dead lifts in the gym and concentrate on your pecs.
 
My last bike before my Husky was an 84 Yamaha. I guess progress does have its advantages.

I went from vintage to barroom! Who would have guessed disk brakes are so much better than drums?
 
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