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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Help please. I think Ive goosed my Stator

Milesy

Milesy

Husqvarna
During a pre day out maintenance spell on my Husky TS 450 2004 in my garage after drinking more than a bottle of wine which was a mad idea that I shall not be repeating. I decided to charge my battery while it was still in the bike. Bad idea I know but it gets worse. I connected the terminals the wrong way round and when I tried to start the bike there was a click or should a say a pop from the relay / fuse holder where the battery sits. I blew a 15 amp fuse, but I suspect that was not all. My battery charger started to smoke and so that got thrown out of the garage.
Now when I connect the battery there is a spark whereas this did not happen before the episode, also the battery does not get charged when the bike is running. The bike runs fine when its going but when I go flying off the thing and its stalls its not much fun trying bumping it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
Milesy said:
During a pre day out maintenance spell on my Husky TS 450 2004 in my garage after drinking more than a bottle of wine which was a mad idea that I shall not be repeating. I decided to charge my battery while it was still in the bike. Bad idea I know but it gets worse. I connected the terminals the wrong way round and when I tried to start the bike there was a click or should a say a pop from the relay / fuse holder where the battery sits. I blew a 15 amp fuse, but I suspect that was not all. My battery charger started to smoke and so that got thrown out of the garage.
Now when I connect the battery there is a spark whereas this did not happen before the episode, also the battery does not get charged when the bike is running. The bike runs fine when its going but when I go flying off the thing and its stalls its not much fun trying bumping it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Did you replace the battery? It sounds to me like your battery is destroyed. Charging the battery backwards = battery destruction and trying to use it is askign for problems aside from it being 'dead'. Put a tested - "known good" battery in there and see what happens. Me guess your bike will work. lay off the boose when wrenching fer next time. :)
 
Thanks Soviet for your help. I have used another battery 12 volt but 50 amp to start her but there is still this spark when I connect the final jump lead. It's as if there is a short somewhere. Like if there is a current being drawn already.
 
Milesy said:
Thanks Soviet for your help. I have used another battery 12 volt but 50 amp to start her but there is still this spark when I connect the final jump lead. It's as if there is a short somewhere. Like if there is a current being drawn already.
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Does the bike start with this 50 amp battery? How big is this spark? The reason I ask is the spark is not indicative of a short (though it could be), it can also mean that something is juicing up or applying initial draw. When you connect a car battery to a modern car, they spark everytime. Mainly because the capacitors, ecu, etc are all getting juice for the first time and a circuit it being made. You can measure current draw if you think there is one present. You can also measure the voltage at the battery with the bike running (measure with 1/4 thottle, and not at idle), to see if the charging system is in fact working.

If there is a short on the positive side, you would continually pop fuses the second you start the bike. Electricity is lazy and will always go to ground, in which case that main fuse will get too much current and pop.
 
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