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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My bike won't start

shilo020

shilo020

Husqvarna
AA Class
I took off the tank to place heat shield film on the bottom. Now it will not start. Fuel pump will run and starter turns engine over. Will almost fire if I play with the throttle. Has always started well before. Any ideas?

2010 TE310
 
You moved/bumped/shifted something under the tank, pull the plug and check the fire, make sure it's fat and blue, if not, you may have messed up the connection to the coil.
 
If pump is running, there should be pressure to the injector. If you check the fire and its big and blue, you can go back to fuel.
 
I really try to give advice only on things I know and try to ask only reasonable questions. This forum has been so helpful. Thank you all for your help. Love my bike.
 
Well done on figuring out your problem, but for anyone that finds this thread coz they're having a similar issue (without a bung in the exhaust) I just learned something new this week. The pump would prime, but the bike would crank over without firing. When I put my hand over the exhaust and cranked the starter there was NO compression. So my first thought was to check valve clearances to make sure they were still in spec. They were, but when doing the check the mechanic discovered my manual decomp was stuck "on". So after making and adjustment to it all of a sudden there was compression again and the bike fired up.

So, do the simple checks first is my suggestion. Don't just assume it's electrical issues because Huskies have had a bad reputation in this area in the past. Makes sure the pump primes (rules out fuel starvation as an issue), that the air filter is clean (rules out a lack of air for combustion), that there is a clean spark, and that you have compression (valve clearances, manual decomp, and if need be a proper compression test to see if your rings are stuffed).

Happy riding!
 
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