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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

LOL: Someone should tell this guy about Cafe Husky

I don't think he'd be a good contributing member at this point lol
Perhaps BEFORE those issues became a legal matter. I'd suggest the dealer become aware of the Cafe to help their customers better.
 
This was the general consent two years ago for the 449. Several key people in industry told me my 449 was a piece of shit and that I should get my money back. It had all kinds of issues; oil blow by, dragging clutch, and miserable flame outs. Even with these issues, DirtBikeMagazine rated it equal to the 500 exc. I'm glad I stuck with it, I'm sure others are too. :)
 
Tinken said:
This was the general consent two years ago for the 449. Several key people in industry told me my 449 was a piece of shit and that I should get my money back. It had all kinds of issues; oil blow by, dragging clutch, and miserable flame outs. Even with these issues, DirtBikeMagazine rated it equal to the 500 exc. I'm glad I stuck with it, I'm sure others are too. :)
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Yea, you know my feelings on my 511. It gets better, though, every time I pick up a wrench. So I'm sticking with it. I'd like to know if I need to address the dragging clutch. My bike will stand still in first and the motor running with the clutch in. But if I get on the pegs and gas it, it will move a little (with the clutch in). So I haven't worried about it. Though it's been nagging in the back of my head for a while.
 
Cosmokenney said:
Yea, you know my feelings on my 511. It gets better, though, every time I pick up a wrench. So I'm sticking with it. I'd like to know if I need to address the dragging clutch. My bike will stand still in first and the motor running with the clutch in. But if I get on the pegs and gas it, it will move a little (with the clutch in). So I haven't worried about it. Though it's been nagging in the back of my head for a while.
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Husky clutches have dragged as long as i can remember. The italian ones did it to. Hard to start in gear. Its a non issue, run the right oil and learn to shift to neutral while rolling to a stop.
 
Motosportz said:
Husky clutches have dragged as long as i can remember. The italian ones did it to. Hard to start in gear. Its a non issue, run the right oil and learn to shift to neutral while rolling to a stop.
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I've been using the Mobile 1 Euro Formula 0W40, but I'm not sold on it. I might try Rotella T6 5W40. I'm touchy about messing with oils, though. In my old-fangled KLR it's one thing to experiment, but the modern engine of the TE, scary.
 
Husqvarna did make different clutch head clearances for the dds clutch. You can order a range of tolerances. The trick is knowing which one to order. Before going that route though, I would swap out the Dot 4 fluid in your clutch reservoir. You can switch to DOT 5.1 too, since you will be bleeding out everything. Remember your clutch is on the crankshaft and not on the secondary shaft. It spins up to four times as fast as a typical clutch and oil drag alone will tend to make it feel like it is pulling. There is no need to worry about burning up your clutch, I have yet to see one fail.

Nothing wrong with switching oils if you feel more comfortable. I do believe T6 is a down grade to Mobil1 and it's more expensive. It will drag the clutch slightly more, but it might be peace of mind to experiment.
 
Motosportz said:
Husky clutches have dragged as long as i can remember. The italian ones did it to. Hard to start in gear. Its a non issue, run the right oil and learn to shift to neutral while rolling to a stop.
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Only time it's an issue is when you stall it in some technical single-track and can't pull in the clutch and start it with the button to keep on going. (although I suppose I shouldn't have stalled it in the first place;))
 
Change the clutch fluid regularly and reverse bleed from slave up. I have found this helps a lot.
 
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