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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

How many hours on your X-lite

I must be unlucky I hope. I was debating if I should buy a new 2 stroke or 4 stroke next year and after my husky 4 stroke blowing up with only 50 hours I would have a hard time buying another. Lots of riding buddys have yzf and kxf and rmz with over 100 mx hours with no problem and most are alot faster than me.
 
krieg said:
This post seems pretty irrelevant without proper context. Hours mean nothing. I could ride an X-lite for 1000 hours because I ride like an old man. On the other hand, my son, who could destroy an anvil with a rubber mallet, might get 40 or 50 hours max.
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OK, I have 152.5 hours as ridden by a mid-pack B female rider. It gets ridden nearly every weekend, though, in a variety of terrain. I have raced (my idea of racing is far less aggressive than most others) the bike for 2 seasons. Most of my problems with the bike have been hot starting issues, EFI tuning issues and general "used bike surprises."
 
I justed talked with one of the most respected authority on Husqvarna in USA and he told me straight out that with 50 hours I did ok compared to some other x-tra light 250 four stroke he deals with. The bottom end in these motors are weak if rode hard (raced). Motors runs to hot is one problem that is why oil looks cooked after 2 hours. I liked my 2010 tc250 but I am not going to rebuild bottom end every 50 hours. Going back to 2 strokes. I do like the Husqvarna brand but if there is a problem brand loyal or not the truth needs to be told. I own a 2006 drz400 with 9000 km and 2008 cr144 with over 200 hours and sons 2010 yz 125 with 125 hours all bike rode hard but kept up well and other bike are still running great. Like I said before I hope I am just unlucky but it starting to sound like it might be a problem with this motor which I was shocked to find out based on my CR.
 
Pedec said:
I justed talked with one of the most respected authority on Husqvarna in USA and he told me straight out that with 50 hours I did ok compared to some other x-tra light 250 four stroke he deals with. The bottom end in these motors are weak if rode hard (raced). Motors runs to hot is one problem that is why oil looks cooked after 2 hours. I liked my 2010 tc250 but I am not going to rebuild bottom end every 50 hours. Going back to 2 strokes. I do like the Husqvarna brand but if there is a problem brand loyal or not the truth needs to be told. I own a 2006 drz400 with 9000 km and 2008 cr144 with over 200 hours and sons 2010 yz 125 with 125 hours all bike rode hard but kept up well and other bike are still running great. Like I said before I hope I am just unlucky but it stating to sound like it might be a problem with motor which I was shocked to find out based on my CR.
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I hear what you are saying, and time will tell if there is a real problem or a few isolated cases. So far there seems to be more success stories than failures, but not many of us race MX, which may be a different story.
 
Pedec said:
I justed talked with one of the most respected authority on Husqvarna in USA and he told me straight out that with 50 hours I did ok compared to some other x-tra light 250 four stroke he deals with. The bottom end in these motors are weak if rode hard (raced). Motors runs to hot is one problem that is why oil looks cooked after 2 hours. I liked my 2010 tc250 but I am not going to rebuild bottom end every 50 hours. Going back to 2 strokes. I do like the Husqvarna brand but if there is a problem brand loyal or not the truth needs to be told. I own a 2006 drz400 with 9000 km and 2008 cr144 with over 200 hours and sons 2010 yz 125 with 125 hours all bike rode hard but kept up well and other bike are still running great. Like I said before I hope I am just unlucky but it starting to sound like it might be a problem with this motor which I was shocked to find out based on my CR.
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Who's the respected authority? Just curious.

I've got about 75 hrs on an 11 TE 250 that has seen ALL single track and now mostly enduro races, sucked in water through the intake and blew the head gasket out, replaced it(gaskets only) and put 3 more endruos on it and it's still running as strong as it ever did.
 
Just a update my connecting rod bearing was gone and it going to cost $1600.00 to 1800.00 to fix since it wrecked other stuff also. This is not good for only 50 hours. I am selling bike after it is fixed and sticking with 2 strokes.
 
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