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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky battery went kamikaze

B

brandontx

Husqvarna
AA Class
2008 Husky 510 SMR. So a couple of weeks ago I was riding and the bike just stalled out of nowhere. The bike was still on but when I press the starter button absolutely nothing happened. Took me a minute or two of trying and it finally fired up. Took it home and noticed the battery jumped out of it's holder and was laying on the air filter. Had made a 1/2" tear all the way through the air filter.

Was running fine after I fixed it and it happened again yesterday. Bike would stall when going up a curb or up stairs almost like you had to give it more gas than normal to keep it from stalling. Again it took a minute to get it going. Took it home and battery had jumped out again and tore filter this time it was about a 3/4" tear.

I am wondering what made it stall and what kept it from starting? Starved for air because the battery was blocking the filter, ran too hot, battery terminal becoming loose when bouncing up the stairs. If it was from overheating I'm wondering what damage could have been done if any. Bike starts and runs fine now but is there anything I should check? Also because there was a small tear in the filter I'm wondering if I should tear it down to see if dirt got in there. I was riding in the dirt for about 30 minutes but it wasn't too dusty. I removed the filter and there was no dirt in the airbox on the other side of the filter. If there is even a small tear wouldn't a lot of air and possibly dirt be sucked through there since it's the path of least resistance. Any advice would be appreciated.
 
Maybe a short from the battery terminals touching metal. Might be a good idea to secure the battery hence forth.
 
Yep, the 08 models (maybe 09) need the battery zip tied down or they jump out of that 'too small' holder and into the air filter .... Unless you were riding in the desert or really dusty conditions, you probably did no damage to the bike ...

You can sew that filter back up or just replace it ...
 
I would check the fall over safety relay and take it off, the TE's do not have that safety relay which is meant to kill the bike if it's on it's side. However abrubt obstacles can make this relay shut off the bike until you turn the key off and on again.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top