• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Help - My bike lights won't turn off

Mickeyfin

Mickeyfin

Husqvarna
I searched this forum for a day before I posted this and I could not find any info, so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here.

Quick history: I just bought this bike (2006 TE250 with under 700 miles), it’s my first Husqvarna bike, but I have owned Honda, Suzuki and Kawi dual sports in the past.

When I bought it, I knew the bike had a blinker issue. The blinkers would stay on instead of flashing. So I went digging and I found the flasher relay had fallen off it’s holder and got wedged in the steering limiter and got crushed in one corner. I called my local dealer and he actually had one in stock! :) Plugged it in, perfect. Blinkers work as they should.

Now to the real problem…. My bike will not electrically turn off.

The bike starts fine with e-start or kick start. All the lights and blinkers work perfectly. The speedometer/computer works perfectly, but when I turn off the bike using the red kill switch, the lights stay on, for a long time. In fact, they will stay on so long they will drain the battery. Found that out the hard way after the previous owner told me they would automatically turn off. I can’t see a key switch anywhere other than the steering lock and I don’t have a key for that. All my other dual sport bikes had keys and the lights would turn off when the key was off.

So I contacted the previous owner and he admitted there is an issue and said he simply removed the 15 amp fuse behind the battery and all was fine. Well…. thats a PITA to have to do that every time, and I’d like to get to the root of the problem if I could. Oh yeah, the horn doesn’t work either, but that’s a much smaller issue.

Does anyone have any ideas on where to start looking? checking?
 
Hmm. The horn is always on 'on' those models even when the bike is turned off so maybe you have powered the lights with the horn power wire.
 
That's the thing, I don't know what he (previous owner) did. I'll test the horn, horn switch, and wires to the horn tonight.

I'll look it over more closely tonight, but I did print out the wiring schematic and it looked correct especially since most of the connectors are part specific. Do you think it matters which wire goes to which connector on the horn?
 
My 310 was doing the same thing with the lights staying on after the bike was shut off, but otherwise it ran well. I found the problem to be multiple shorts in the wiring. Including corrosion and muck in many of the connectors/fuses/blanking ends.
 
I guess I'll keep digging, checking all the connectors and adding dielectric grease to all of them. It probably doesn't take much to make them corrode. This bike is clean, I don't even see any mud residue on hard to clean areas.

BTW, does your bike have a key?

I tested the horn today and found it to be bad. I have 12 V of power to the wires leading into the horn.
 
Mickeyfin said:
I guess I'll keep digging, checking all the connectors and adding dielectric grease to all of them. It probably doesn't take much to make them corrode. This bike is clean, I don't even see any mud residue on hard to clean areas.

BTW, does your bike have a key?

I tested the horn today and found it to be bad. I have 12 V of power to the wires into the horn.
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Mine has a key but I don't think your model was keyed. It was a weird one on my bike, because the bit I "fixed" which was a corroded blank plug wasn't meant tks have power to it with the ignition off. But when I repaired that the problem stopped.
I have never owned a bike that has rubbed through so many wires. Take off the tank and all the plastics and start from there.
 
No key on my 06 TE. I'm not even sure how it ever shut off actually. I don't know if it was on a timer or the kill switch did it. Does anyone know? Coffee?? you have an 06 TE right?

Well, I took off the plastics, tank, etc. Checked all the connections that I could see and filled them with dielectric grease. Still does the same thing.

I wonder if the remote starter module (I think it's called) behind the battery which has 2 fuses, is bad?
 
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