• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 TE310

J

James ODay

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi everybody,

Forgive these dumb questions but I'm relatively new to the dirt scene and need to learn a few things.

I have a new (to me) TE310, 2012 and I have a couple of questions. The bash plate appears to be plastic. I assume I can I lift the bike by the bash plate without breaking it, just want to be sure. Does a bottle jack with pieces of wood work OK for a lift?

Can I use one of those swing arm lifts to get the bike vertical to change oil, etc? I've looked at some of them and can't figure out how they would attach.

The owners manual says tire inflation is 1 kg/cm sqd, which I think comes out to around 15 PSI. Is that correct? Seems a little low to me but I've been riding street for the last 20 years so I'm learning here.

Also where is the best place for OEM parts and supplies?

Thanks alot for the help and feedback, I appreciate it.
 
I would change oil on side stand, as that is the side it drains out. Also once it is drained take bike of stand and lean side to side and low on the oil plug drain side to get as much oil out as poss. You have to take the sump bash plate off to change the oil anyhow if I recall

You can like bike on the plastic sump guard, but I would lift it on the cross members. I would not use a piece of wood and a bottle jack as it is like a see saw and would fall off.

Not sure of the tyre pressures but they are generally lower tan street bikes.
 
Thanks man, that helps. Now I remember the lift I had for my XR600. Had little notches where the frame fit and you levered it up. Dam, that was probably 15 yrs ago. I think that's what I need to get.
 
It have a 12 te also and I found it easier to take off the plastic skid plate (5mm hex bolt up front) and set the front tire on a piece of wood (so all the oi drains out) the case is angled slightly towards the front ,then take a good 12mm wrench and losen the oil drain bolt ( be careful not to strip it) then once you get that off ... There will be an oil screen behind it take that off and clean it with evaporative cleaner (carb/brake cleaner) let it dry completely before reassembly
 
I read that the oil change sucks, there's some kind of hose you need to remove, the space is tight, the bolt may be welded on, screen is impossible to remove, etc etc. Not looking forward to that.

It has 370 miles on it, my only ride yet has been 50 miles on the road to get it home. Wow is that seat hard. I'm really anxious to get it dirty and play around.
 
It kind of is with that oil line /drain plug deal I have something in mind to try and fix that problem....ill keep you posted with what happens....only other advice I can give you is get a good quality 12mm wrench if you strip that plug your screwed .... Until then keep rippin!
 
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