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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Instrument cluster rubber button cover missing - TE450

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tntmo

Husqvarna
AA Class
My 2008 TE450 has continued to be a reliable workhorse, even though it's starting to develop some leaks it always gets me where I'm going.

On the last desert trip, I noticed that the rubber button cover on the speedometer/instrument cluster was tore. It only stayed like that for a few rides and then it completely departed the pattern.

Has anyone had any luck sourcing one of these rubber covers? The speedometer is still working fine so I'd like to keep it that way. Any other solutions?
 
I covered mine with a small piece of quality electrical tape. I always cover my instrument panel when I wash the bike to keep it dry and safe
 
So I was trying to come up with a solution for this. Had a broken speedometer from a Kawasaki cruiser with a rubber button but it was too small. That got me thinking about what else I could use. Looking around the garage I spotted a flashlight, button too small. Looked at a few more and figured this might work. Harbor freight free flashlight, I think they are $2 now. It still works without the rubber button.
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Took it apart to harvest the button.
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Then I disassembled the Husky speedometer.
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Then with just a little bit of trimming around the base of the rubber button, we have this.
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I put some sealant around the base of the button. Not sure if it’s going to be 100% waterproof but it looks pretty good.
 
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