• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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Low fuel light on

dirt_rider93561

dirt_rider93561

Husqvarna
AA Class
So I was riding my 09 TE510 yesterday up in the mountains and about 11 miles into the ride my low fuel light came on and stayed on the rest of the trip, about 20 miles total. I looked in the tank when it came on and I still had plenty of fuel left in the tank. After that the bike started hiccuping on the low end, but ran great if it was revved out. Do you think this might be an early sign of the fuel pump going out?

My sisters fuel pump just went out about a month ago. Surprisingly Husky covered the part under warranty, even though it is out of its one year warranty. Malcolm Smith Motorsports did kill the battery though :thumbsdown:
 
When I first got my TE 510 it had a bad stator and it wouldn't charge the battery and when the voltage would get low enough the fuel light would go on and the engine would start to buck or hiccup and then stalled. ended up taking it to Monaghans, didn't want to drive over to simi valley two or three times.
 
Sounds like the pump itself is slipping up in the carrier/holster. It needs to be tied back down.

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I sure hope its not the stator. I don't have a problem with the battery charging, but I need to take a look at it some more and see what I can find out. As for the pump slipping I sure hope not as I already took it apart and retied it down, but I will dig into it again and see what I can find. Thanks.
 
Do you know what the orange wire is for. I thought it was for the low fuel light. Which might be the reason that my light is on, but not why it started hiccuping. The orange wire came off on my sisters pump also.
 
Does anybody know if the 510's have a dry or wet stator? I was going to take the cover off and take a peek and see if anything looks out of the ordinary. I don't feel like having a puddle of oil on my garage floor when I take the cover off.
 
IF it is wet you could just lay the bike over on the right side and turn the bars toward the left and that will allow you to remove the cover without any oil coming out..

Chow, Carl
 
Yeah I could do that. Just I can't lay it all the way over otherwise I will fill my air box up with oil due to the vent hose on the right side of the valve cover.
 
dirt_rider93561;140250 said:
Yeah I could do that. Just I can't lay it all the way over otherwise I will fill my air box up with oil due to the vent hose on the right side of the valve cover.
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use a pair of vise grips and pinch off the hose :thumbsup:
 
dirt_rider93561;140131 said:
Does anybody know if the 510's have a dry or wet stator? I was going to take the cover off and take a peek and see if anything looks out of the ordinary. I don't feel like having a puddle of oil on my garage floor when I take the cover off.
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Wet. Up until I had a huge puddle on the floor I had no idea that some bikes had wet stators! Doh!
 
I do need to to do an oil change anyways, so I might as well do that and take a look at the stator and see if I can see anything visually wrong with it.

I checked the pump last night and everything looks good on it. No broken wires and pump was still in place.
 
So I took the stator cover off and looked at the stator and everything looked good. Didn't see any burnt areas or anything out of the ordinary. Also took the plugs apart and cleaned them and put it back together and still have the same issue. What is the best way to test the stator to see if it might not be working properly.
 
dirt_rider93561 said:
So I took the stator cover off and looked at the stator and everything looked good. Didn't see any burnt areas or anything out of the ordinary. Also took the plugs apart and cleaned them and put it back together and still have the same issue. What is the best way to test the stator to see if it might not be working properly.
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Start by running the bike and measure the battery voltage and see if it rises to around 14.5VDC or better.
If it does, the system is likely fine.
If not, could be a rectifer/regulator unit, or the power input to it.

On one bike I found the AC wires going into the rectifer unit were pinched by a tie wrap and pulled on one AC wire, and that caused arcing inside the connector pin melting the nylon shell a bit. It was repairable, but a bit black and crispy. The ECU likely runs off the stator power directly.

The orange wire in the picture looks like it is part of the low fuel sensor circuit if it is attached to the sensor body. Looks like it is. You can take an ohmeter across the wires and measure it wet and dry. Should be obviously different readings. A better way may be to measure the voltage on each wire to ground with the key on in wet and dry conditions. Will be something like under 4VDC and over 4VDC on one wire, The other is likely Zero VDC (ground).
 
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