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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New Husky TE449 Owner

markymark83

markymark83

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi Guys been a while since I've been here, but been getting back out on my old 2004 TE 510 lately and this week decided to drop it into the local dealer for a well deserved valve clearance check. Unfortunately found out that it has done the head gasket and warped the head.

All that aside, the idea to upgrade came up and struck up a deal for a brand spanker 2013 TE 449.....Will be my first time with a Brand new bike and one with EFI so am very excited!

Now my main question to all you guys is, whats the must haves/do's etc to these bikes?
 
I think the AUS don't have the same emission issues as the US
If it stumbles a lot or you can get it remapped or get a power commander/exhaust
There is a big oil thread as they dump some oil if you fill it to the full capacity. Zip-Ty has a cheap fix and then a whole kit. Seems even the cheap kit has great results
Other then that do whatever you want. The typical protection parts from site sponsors. Seat Concepts seats get amazing reviews here

Have fun, you really bought a great bike and with some more money its even better.
 
Thanks mate, might have to drop into my tuner who did my road bike, see what he can do with the tunes etc. Will look up that oil dump thread you spoke of too. Can't wait to get my hands on this weapon!
 
185 pound (13.2 stone) rider plus gear. Intermediate skills on fast, rocky desert trails and hills. Here's what made the bike mine:

OEM Race Map jumper - absolute must
FMF Slip on (maybe yours came Ackro) - slight power increase
JD Tuner - these don't seem to get much love anymore, but the thing works fine on my bike. BIG jump in power, combined with exhaust. Word is the PCV is great, way to expensive for me. There is also the BMW map 3, which is getting lots of love right now, but, sad for me, it didn't work on my ECU, so back to the tried and true JD.
Fork Revalve - HUGE improvement. The spring/sag was fine, but the valving was way too soft for my pace/trails.
Rear Spring - Huge improvement. Stocker couldn't set sag right and pogo'd all around. Tried to compensate by burying the clickers but it didn't work. Funny how a stronger spring with less preload allows for a smoother, more compliant ride.

Those are the performance mods that have truly worked for me. YMMV
 
Moose racing fender bag is good for storing a few tools and registration and things like that.

Seat Concepts seat really makes it a lot more comfortable on longer rides
 
Ride, change oil, repeat, grin. Beefier handguards and a skid plate are good. +1 on the seat concepts. A rear rotor guard is also a good idea.
 
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