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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

If your Husky has a steering lock

Radar

Radar

Husqvarna
Pro Class
You may want to open the steering stem and inspect and clean the bearings.



My TE449 has about 2000 dirt miles on it.



I noticed a little roughness in the steering stem bearings. Upon inspection I found quite a lot of dirt and sand on the lower bearing.



I think it entered trough the slot for the steering lock.



I sealed my steering stem by installing a foam plug at the top and bottom and sealing it with acrylic caulking compound.



 

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When I tore my wr down to grease every-thing after I bought it, I noticed it had a steering lock and that the top of the steering stem was open and could allow dirt and water to run down the inside of the stem and get into the lower steering head bearing through the slot in the steering stem. I found a nice plastic cap that fit in the top of the stem and siliconed it in place. Works and looks great(it matches the red plastic on the bike):thumbsup:
 
I use my stem lock, so I am not sure what I can do to keep that from happening. I did take them apart and pack them with Mobil1 red grease. Maybe it's something I'm just going to have to do every 1500 miles or so?
 
Tinken said:
I use my stem lock, so I am not sure what I can do to keep that from happening. I did take them apart and pack them with Mobil1 red grease. Maybe it's something I'm just going to have to do every 1500 miles or so?
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I don't think that the problem is with dirt entering from the lock itself but rather the open top of the steering stem, if you look down it with a flashlight, you can see the slot that the lock engages and that is where the dirt and water can get through to the out-side of the stem and travel down into the lower bearing.If you plug the top of the stem, the lock will still remain functional.
 
I did grease my steering head bearings at about 250mi., put a dab of dialectic grease in rhe steering lock (I don't use it
But do use the key) I also put some in the right hand mirror mount as I don't use it (only left one, it's a fold over)
Never know, may want to use sometime or for next owner. I use betray waterproof grease on most bearings.
 
I had a KLX that had early bearing failure in the steering stem. I discovered that there was an uncovered slot for a steering lock on the stem. I just covered it with some electrical tape, and never had any problems with the replacement bearing.:cool:
 
Thinking :thinking:... this Steering anti-theft lock design would appear to have this exact issue in most bikes. Sealing top and bottom areas, great reminder!

I looked it over and decided to fill the first two inches of tube with Silicon top and bottom. Top the stem Nut with a anodized red cap :D. Confirm the slot area for the wheel lock is clean to function smoothly.

Reviewed the Parts manual for the TE310 and TE511, no plastic cap for the top nut ! :eek:



TE310 Gas tank Vent tube placed in the steering stem. I would think the gas leaks into this area would washing all the grease out of the bearing :thinking:. Time to inspect the TE310 as well.
 
Desertyucca said:
TE310 Gas tank Vent tube placed in the steering stem. I would think the gas leaks into this area would washing all the grease out of the bearing :thinking:. Time to inspect the TE310 as well.
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It does.

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I read somewhere that those let air in, but not pressure out and that some folks had problems with tanks swelling.
 
Mike-AK said:
I read somewhere that those let air in, but not pressure out and that some folks had problems with tanks swelling.
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They do let pressure out,if I squeeze my fuel tank slowly,I can hear air coming out of the valve. If I squeeze the tank quickly then the valve closes. It has not caused any issues so far. I think if it used on a four stroke bike that runs hot and the fuel tank builds pressure rapidly it may not allow the pressure in the tank to release properly. Not an issue on my 2-stroke:thumbsup:
 
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