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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Lost Clutch Mysteriously

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evomaki

Husqvarna
A Class
Hey Everyone,

I've owned my new to me, low hours, 2008 TE 510 for all of about two weeks now. The oddest problem has come up and I haven't been able to find a solution from searching previous posts, although there is no shortage of them. "Lost Clutch" appears popular. Anyway, bike runs great. Clutch and gearbox spot on. I've put 30 minutes of run time on the thing in my neighborhood. No complaints. This past weekend I check the valve clearance and install bark-busters. Take the bike off the stand and I've got no clutch!?

I have no leaks and the clutch lever feels like about how it should. I never touched the slave or openned the master, while doing this work on the bike. Now I've bleed the clutch (top down and bottom up using pressure up from the bleed screw) to no avail (and it is bled, no air). Slave cylinder looks brand new compared to some of the images I've seen posted. Nothing buggered up. I also have no leaks. I've disassembled the master and it looks OK too. I'm planning on getting a rebuild kit anyway, but I've got that funny feeling that won't fix it.

That clutch rod (with the octagonal end toward the slave piston) looks fine with no mechanical damage. Is that supposed to seat into some special spot on the clutch side? In its current inserted position the octagonal end sticks out roughly 3/16" (5mm). I'm just wondering if I've got some confluence of issues here. Maybe a master not quite up to snuff, but then I take the slave and clutch actuator rod out, and don't put the rod back quite right, and I'm quickly snowballing. I pushed on the actuator rod using a wood dowel with some decent force. I've no idea how easily that should move, but it didn't budge. Thanks in advance for your help.
 
evomaki said:
Take the bike off the stand and I've got no clutch!?

I have no leaks and the clutch lever feels like about how it should.
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I am confused-
you say you have "no clutch" but that the "clutch lever feels about how it should"...

If you had a hydrolic problem- air/leak whatever- you'd feel it. It would have little to no resistance. Like if you release the bleeder and pulled the clutch- that's how it would feel.

So if that's not the case... What indicates to you that you "have no clutch"?

Just a guess: Assuming you haven't tried riding it or starting it since you thought the clutch was bad... due to: the bike is in gear, not running, and you feel resistance when you try to push it- meaning its not freewheeling and has some drag in gear- That's normal. Put it on the stand- start it up and test- the wheel will still spin but not with as much power- and will come to a stop once its warm. Try to start the bike in gear/clutch pulled in- if it doesn't completely lurch forward with the starter and starts you are good- Then test ride. Worse case scenario you have more clutch drag than show room floor new- but it works. sorry if I guessed wrong- its just a common thing for people getting used to magura clutches coming from cables.
 
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