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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I Guess I Hit the Whoops Too Hard...(Broken Bracket)

M

MrClean

Husqvarna
AA Class
Went out for a ride last night on my '09 TE310. About half way thru, I started hearing a noise coming from behind me every time I hit a bump. Sure enough, the sub-fender support frame had snapped where the stock license plate bracket attaches to it. The bracket was still hanging-on. But, the broken support frame was allowing it to pivot up and down.

The bike is still under warranty. Do you think the support frame is covered?

Obviously, I should switch the stock license plate bracket for the "racing" bracket. The stock one is just too heavy. Unfortunately, I didn't get a "racing" bracket when I bought the bike. Are there any aftermarket brackets out there? Or, should I just buy the OEM bracket?

thanks.
 
I did the same thing with my te 250. Scrap the bracket and screw the racing tail light to the fender. You don't need to replace the bracket.
 
Are you able to mount turn signals to the racing bracket?

I need to keep the bike street legal.

I was already stopped once by the Forestry Police on an access road. (I'm in Kalifornia.) I told the guy I was street legal. He had to walk around the bike a few times any get all my paperwork anyway. And.. that was with ALL the stock street legal equipment....Turn signals, mirrors, lights, etc. He eventually let me go...
 
I swapped out the stock turn signals for some small flexible led units from Electrosport. I actually used pieces of the broken bracket to make small mounting tabs and bolted to the subframe.
 
Everyone I know with a 2008 has broken theirs. I took off the old one and flattened it out, and made a template. Then I made a new one out of .060 stainless steel. Let me know if you need to borrow the template (I don't know if they are the same or not). :) Ken
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Nice work! You wanna sell me a stainless one? (Please say yes.)

The racing bracket is gonna set me back $80. I'd gladly spend that money on your bracket instead.

I just know that the Forestry Police are gonna give me trouble if my street legal equipment appears modified.
 
I can send you the flattened one, or a chipboard template. Or if someone that has a machine shop wants a template to make a bunch of these, I can send it to them. I don't have the kind of equipment needed to make these in a reasonable amount of time. I ordered the .060 stainless from McMaster Carr. Traced around the old part with a scribe onto the stainless. I then drilled all the corner radii, bolt holes and used a jig saw to rough it out. A belt sander then a file to finish it off. My neighbor has a small brake that I used for the 90 degree bends and just a vise for the 45's. It took me a long time to do by hand, but someone with a machine shop could whip one out in no time.

Keep in mind this is from an 08 TE510, I don't know if the 250/310 is the same, or what years are the same.:) Ken
 
Thanks for the offer. I can probably flatten my broken one and use that as a template.

Yeah... With minimal tools and experience, it's gonna take me 6 to 8 hours to make a replacement.

I've got to imagine that this part is breaking for everyone. I really don't ride very hard.

Attention aftermarket Husky parts guys!!...
 
So... I ended-up making two brackets (one for each side) out of 1/8" x 1.5" strap steel. It was fairly simple and only took a couple hours to fabricate. Of course, I no longer have horizontal cross supports under the fender. But, I can't imagine ever needed them...
 
I just replaced mine with a bit thicker piece of aluminum plate that I had a shop with a break press bend into the appropriate size channel.

The weak point seems to be where the holes are:

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I broke the side piece right behind the turnsignals twice. I had a welder beef it up with extra material and it cost me very little. No problems since :thumbsup:

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WoodsChick
 
Mine broke the same way in big hoops. Had it welded and a plate added on the top to support the race light set up. So far so good, knock on wood.
 
I know this is an old thread, but that stainless piece looks great. Oddly I haven't had any issues with mine, but I will watch it from now on.
 
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