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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

More time fixing than riding...

duggoey

duggoey

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Just wanted to have a whinge..

My bike is an 18 month old trail only machine (no racing at all). Bought it new from the dealer.

Been off the road for nearly a month now with things broken that nobody broke../ Meaning through what I see as design/poor quality parts.

- First I noticed the headlight wasnt working. Found the switch contact points had fried, you cant purchase the OEM switch itself, you have to buy the whole block ~$150?. Repaired - self
- Thought it was time to re-grease the swingarm/linkages. So I dismanted it and most of the bearings were damaged beyond repair (i remember seeing NO grease in there). Waited 2 weeks for the kit to come in $$. Asked the shop to press out the old cases so it took longer and $$.
- Relpaced the linkage bearings and linkage itself. Went to re-install the rear wheel and noticed that a 2 rollers have somehow come off the chain? Dont know when or how this happened? Will need a new chain $$ Also cant buy locally in reasonable time. More time off road.
- When putting the wheel on anyway (so i could at least test my new JD tuner) I noticed the thin metal brake pad retainers were damaged $$$, stopping me from being able to repalce the wheel. Dealer lives 30 mins away (been there already several times recently including today) and will have to order new pads. The pads themselves unfortunately have heaps of life left...

I have had many other expensive things break also. Loads of fork seal dramas $$$. Electrical gremlins with STOCK wiring usually from rubbing away or water ingress. Air boot failing etc.

:( I just want to go for a ride :(
 
Looks like you have a 2010 TE310?

I regreased my linkage and SW as soon as I got the bike so I've got no problem with that. The old bikes did have zerk fittings that are missing on the newer bikes....too bad.

The Stock Regina chain is actually rather good...do you have a Regina chain?

The wiring and electrical in general is rather weak....starter motor and fuel pumpo is Chinese and prone to fail.

There is even an updated wire harness from Husky with thicker wiring and insulation.

The 2010-11 x-lights are rather delicate machines.
 
First off sorry to hear of the missfortune. Grease on these bikes is like katchup in Germany, not very much and you have to ask and pay. In general all bikes out of the create from any manufacturer should be gone through to insure the line assembly hit all the pivot points. Need to do the head set as well as the rear linkage. My chain on my 08 450 just broke just under 6,700 miles and was a good chain IMO. all the little other things you are experiancing are bike prep dummies. I did a prep on my 09 450 when I got it but forgot to sheck the steering stop screws and lost on in 380 miles. Never had a wireing issue but I can see places that routing was not a primary thought during design or assembly. Just another one of them things you need to look for and at before putting it to the test. 30 minutes one way could be a pisser when you notice the problem after you get back.
On the the other note: I thought you guys accross and under the big water had a better warrenty than 6 months, is it not two years?
 
R_Little said:
Looks like you have a 2010 TE310?

I regreased my linkage and SW as soon as I got the bike so I've got no problem with that. The old bikes did have zerk fittings that are missing on the newer bikes....too bad.

The Stock Regina chain is actually rather good...do you have a Regina chain?

The wiring and electrical in general is rather weak....starter motor and fuel pumpo is Chinese and prone to fail.

There is even an updated wire harness from Husky with thicker wiring and insulation.

The 2010-11 x-lights are rather delicate machines.
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He's got a 2010 310. Not an x-lite.
 
i got a 2010 te310 and find the wiring loom a absolute nightmare.. my friend has a te450 and same problems.. most fault re lights, engine cuts out, fails and down to the crappy wiring loom that connects the three replays under the tank.. they corrode and the location is terrible.. i have had to snip all three replays off from the white plug and hard wire with quality spades direct into the three relays and then install in a silicone gel waterproof box to help this issue.. the loom is made of crappy copper wire and rots along with the spades if the bike has done some miles.. Bad design in location of the relays and bad plug into them !!! why didnt they use similar connection to the plug on the fuel tank that has rubber seals??? not impressed on electric components at all!!!
 
All new bikes (of any brand) should be torn apart and re-greased with high quality waterproof grease or early bearing failure is for sure. The chain rollers, thats a freak one, never heard of that. Damaged rear brake pad backing plate, thats a trail trash issue not a bike issue, Same brake setup as many many bikes.
 
Motosportz said:
All new bikes (of any brand) should be torn apart and re-greased with high quality waterproof grease or early bearing failure is for sure. The chain rollers, thats a freak one, never heard of that. Damaged rear brake pad backing plate, thats a trail trash issue not a bike issue, Same brake setup as many many bikes.
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I appreciate your "positive" attitude. It makes me feel that everything will be fine. I however am not so optimistic. I have an 11" ex-lite. I think I could have gone through the bike completely when it was new and never remedied,or fixed my current issue. The fuel pump took a crap, and in the process of repair, I discovered... no I didn't break the plastic fuel elbow, but rather discovered what a complete clown show the wiring and the entire fuel management system is. Frankly, I'm nervous about ever riding alone again. Why will my new fuel pump not simply fail also? BETA!
 
Robert Gulden said:
I appreciate your "positive" attitude. It makes me feel that everything will be fine. I however am not so optimistic. I have an 11" ex-lite. I think I could have gone through the bike completely when it was new and never remedied,or fixed my current issue. The fuel pump took a crap, and in the process of repair, I discovered... no I didn't break the plastic fuel elbow, but rather discovered what a complete clown show the wiring and the entire fuel management system is. Frankly, I'm nervous about ever riding alone again. Why will my new fuel pump not simply fail also? BETA!
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I was just addressing his issues. As for yours fuel pumps are a all to common issue on all brands of motorcycles and KTM seems top have the loin share. You are 100% correct on the wiring. His 2010 Te310 is the older motor and frame and buddy Jake has flat pounded his to death for years and yes a few issue but pretty solid. Yep, EFI, e-start and street stuff make these bikes complicated nightmares. Its why I ride a 125 with a carb with no jets, simple as a hammer, two wires :D We ask for EFI light weight DS bikes this is what we get.
 
Motosportz said:
All new bikes (of any brand) should be torn apart and re-greased with high quality waterproof grease or early bearing failure is for sure. The chain rollers, thats a freak one, never heard of that. Damaged rear brake pad backing plate, thats a trail trash issue not a bike issue, Same brake setup as many many bikes.
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I posted this nearly 12 months ago and was having a bad run. No bike is perfect but the lack of grease in bearings is piss poor across all brands.

I have had a fair few issues not noted here, a lot of them I haven't had on my other bikes. It is running well now though after lots of $$ and time
 
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