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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Need help. I have a starting issue...

Virginian

Virginian

Husqvarna
AA Class

I washed my bike, dismantled the front handlebar area to sort out cable management. Road it around the block to check it out. Turned it off and 20 mins. later tried to fire it up to pull in the garage. This is what I get ...

OK, here's what I've done so far to troubleshoot so far:
- checked the battery connections
- Left on a Batterytender, getting 100% charge reading
- Disconnected all recent wiring that I've done
- checked all fuses
- removed ignition ket assembly and hit it with a heat gun (maybe water in it?)
- tried jumping it with cables from my other m/c
- heated handgrips were tapped into the horn so they're keyed and not drawing on the battery

My best guess at this point is the ignition may be shot. The dash will power up sometimes, sometimes it won't. Before I start buying random parts, can anyone make any other suggestions? At this point I'm bamboozled...
 
Loose connection at starter solenoid or corrosion at main battery ground? More than once I've had batteries that did what you're seeing but seemed ok and a new battery fixed it.



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Ok, the problem has been sorted. The stock battery going on 5 years old gave up the ghost. I mean like someone threw a light switch to the off position in a manner of seconds. It just happened after I did extensive work wiring up some goodies and washing it. Which in turn made me retrace all the work that preceded this incident. Moty installed, problem solved.
 
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