• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 te450 swollowed some paper towels! Help!

J

Jornum1

Husqvarna
B Class
Ok long story short, new to me 06 te450. Was sold to me with a broken kick start return stop. PO had taken out the electric start. So I had never heard the bike run. The owner has been helping me, not like he sold it to me and said its your problem now.

I fixed everything, put it all back together. I was assured that if I fixed the starter problem that the bike was in good running order.

I was having lots of problems getting it started and idling once I fixed everything. I checked the throttle cable cam and it was partially opened, the idle screw was not even close to hitting it. I gave up for the day and talked to the PO and he said he might have stuffed some paper towels int he intake to make sure nothing go up in there.
oops!
Anyway, there was a chunk of paper towel in stuck in the slide of the carb.
My question is...
Some of the towel puffed out the exhaust, so it went through the cylinder. Is there any risk now that everything is cleared?

I have not had reinstalled everything, I wanted to get some advice before I went any further.
Thanks in advance,
Jay
 
It probably recently ate a KTM and was just wiping its mouth. :D I agree with Kelly, if you got the rest cleaned out and made sure it isn't going to eat any more things should be ok.
 
Awesome thanks guys.
Put everything back together and she fired right up. No studder, or pops. No time to ride today, will find out tomorrow.
Can't wait to finally ride this thing!
 
Should be Ok but try to look into cyl thru spark plug hole. Find someone with a bore scope. If have a big enough wadded up piece of it could bend a valve. Later George
 
Thanks Up, I took a look inside, didnt see anything.
She is running great, only problem is my battery now! I have not ridden a dirt bike in oh 10+ years, although I am a avid street bike rider. Add to that the trails in my woods behind my house have not been used in a long time. There were a lot of logs and rough terrain to navigate which meant stall city for me! No kick start, and my battery only laster a half dozen or so starts before it was toast. I will be picking up a new one tomorrow. And yes before its asked, I tested my charging system and it is working properly.

Thanks everyone for the advice, looks like I made it out ok.
 
Oh yeah I did, sorry for the typo.
No kick stand either, but thats another story!
I think over the winter I am going to have the stop welded back. After losing my battery today, it would really stink to not have a kick start if I wasnt right next to my house!
 
My original Yusa YTZ-7S battery finally went out on my 2006 te250. After pricing a replacement Yusa (:eek:) and some no-name brands, I went with the Turn tech 5.0, works *really* well so far. I have hope it will last as long, or longer, than the original and is much lighter.
 
Is it uncommon to only get a couple starts off a full charge? I would think that I should get more then that. I had to run over some logs and stalled a few times in the first couple minutes. Killed the battery right away.
I charged it up and left it for the night. I am going to check the voltage in the morning and see where it is.

thanks for the input,
 
Jornum1;110079 said:
Is it uncommon to only get a couple starts off a full charge?
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On a battery that should be replaced, yes. It will also charge fairly quick too. :)
 
I've no idea if you have any interest, and I've no idea why this site is so hard to find off the main pivotpegz site which is a sponsor of cafe husky (full disclosure and all that), but here is a link to where you could buy Turn Tech batteries:

http://www.brapoffroad.com/TurnTech.htm

I got the larger one, even though I've got a 250, just cause of my bum right leg. I need all the help I can get.
 
What kind of a moron stuffs a paper towel in the intake?!?!?

:excuseme:

Oooops, thats me! HAHA! twice in my life that has bitten me now, all in the last 2 months! Sorry it caused you grief, I don't know how an airfilter got slapped back on there with it blocked but all my fault. Glad I thought to mention my previous stupidity while trying to help you diagnos it and you found my guilt again (for your sake!).

Now, about your kickstarter situation, I suggest you heed my advice and leave it off, in fact, ship the parts I gave you overseas. Overseas only because the Space Shuttle is out of service now and you can't send them to orbit for eternity!

Believe me, the sight of a cracked engine case is one of the most depressing ones you will ever see. I had 2 catastrophic case failures and the one you have which was bad enough to cause me to bail.

Learn from the master of kick-backs! Better to push with a dead battery than to hear that snap by your right boot!
 
I don't "know" and I respect you experience as "the master of Kick-backs".:notworthy: :D
But, I have only hear of such problems when the Auto-Decompression fails. I could be way off, but have never heard anyone else say "don't kick start these motors or you'll crack the case" because of any other flaw than the ADC going bad as the real "cause". If the ADC is bad you'll also go through starters and have what appears to be a weak battery.... which sounds familiar here as well.... :excuseme:
 
Haha, its all great, when it all works. Add in a few easy to attain variables & "CRACK"! The DOHCers aren't known for bullet proof kickers and of the 3 I owned, 2 were sold, (like the one in this story) or parted out with case damage from kickstarters. One was a lean condition caused by a clogged pilot, one by an inexperienced foot, my son gave it a light 2t booting and blammo!, the case broke clean off. My 06 TC450 kick only with a 07 updated decomp would still kick back once in awhile. Not gently either.

One only needs to look back at Huskys constantly updated kicker kits and even the new 2010 250TC auto decomp in the cam was recalled...

E-start it and be happy. The only thing I'd use the kicker for would be to clean out the combustion chamber with the manual decomp after a flooding/spill.

Now living with a E-start only SXF450, I fear not the lack of a kicker. A 7 series battery is super powerful and it starts everytime. A trickle charger is nice but mine get ridden enough to stay charged.
 
hmm thanks for checking in Jim.

So as far as you know the decompresser had no issues. As it is hard to start sometimes even with a new battery and full charge when it stalls. I use the manual decompresser and it usually fires pretty easily.
 
I would not assume the decomp was bad until you got a fresh battery. The 450/510s take a bit of juice to spin them over even when all is well - even with a newer battery.
 
Jornum1;110625 said:
hmm thanks for checking in Jim.

So as far as you know the decompresser had no issues. As it is hard to start sometimes even with a new battery and full charge when it stalls. I use the manual decompresser and it usually fires pretty easily.
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None, a fresh battery sounds in order. If they don't prep them right they can act like that. :thumbsup:

I fear I may get my KTMs confused with my old Huskys, 7 series Yuasa is an upgrade in my 530 and 450 and it spins them with authority. IIRC that will fit in the TE too. Double check though, these guys will know for sure.
 
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