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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

NO spark 2008txc510

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pensy

Husqvarna
C Class
Has anyone lost spark on 2008 txc/te s Have no power at primary coil, the stator checks seem to come within in specs with no opens, stop switch by-passed etc. Is there anyway to check cdi unit. Any advice appreciated.
 
pensy said:
Has anyone lost spark on 2008 txc/te s Have no power at primary coil, the stator checks seem to come within in specs with no opens, stop switch by-passed etc. Is there anyway to check cdi unit. Any advice appreciated.
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ok, question, :confused: how would u read voltage at the coil primary? my 09 manual states that it is a capacitor discharge type of ignition. as u know, this means that the cdi sends a pulse to the coil when the time comes for a spark. did u check ur coil for the correct resistance and make sure that the ground is good? is the spark plug wire itself good? also when checking the stator coils, don't forget to check for shorts to ground. hopefully, u don't end up with a bad cdi unit.

hope this helps
 
To check voltage at the coil I held a test light on the positive side of of the primary windings (brown wire) and cranked the bike over. I did not not check the stator for shorts to ground and will do tomorrow, I also intend on using a different multimeter to double check the resistance readings of the stator. It was suggested to me that the" pickup" may be bad , so Ill need to read up on how to test that but if anyone knows and could explain would be good. Thanks
 
pensy said:
To check voltage at the coil I held a test light on the positive side of of the primary windings (brown wire) and cranked the bike over. I did not not check the stator for shorts to ground and will do tomorrow, I also intend on using a different multimeter to double check the resistance readings of the stator. It was suggested to me that the" pickup" may be bad , so Ill need to read up on how to test that but if anyone knows and could explain would be good. Thanks
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A pickup is a coil of wire around a magnet. It is usually located in the casing that houses the rotor. I didn't see a TXC diagram showing it in the manual but for the TE model it was shown using white and brown leads that go to the ECU. I would imagine that the leads come out of the side casing with the rest of the wires. The pickup should have continuity between the two leads and no shorts to ground. I didn't see any listing of what the resistance should be for the pickup coil, but it should not be open or very high. If you go into the rotor casing, the magnet of the pickup should attract a screwdriver tip to itself. Did the ignition coil windings test good for resistance?
 
I was not happy with my testing of the coil. I had 4.5 to 5 mega ohms on the primary coil when the manual says 4.5 ohms and my spark plug lead is firmly stuck in the coil and at this stage Im not prepared to force it out so testing the secondary windings by the book (lead removed) is not able to be done yet ! If power is not reaching the coil isnt it safe to assume the coil is ok or not the direct fault cause.
You are correct about there not being a pickup fitted to the TXC I ve checked and there are no brown wires coming from the generator harness. I also checked as you suggested for shorts to ground and where all good execpt the yellow and the white(charge) but Im sure these are supposed to have continuity to earth. I ll price up a coil and lead assembly tomorrow but a new cdi unit is $530 aus dollars ex italy with at least a two week wait, If i wasn t 500 kilometres away I d wheel it into a dealer and tell them to sort it. Your suggetions/help huskyista is appreiciated.
 
pensy said:
I was not happy with my testing of the coil. I had 4.5 to 5 mega ohms on the primary coil when the manual says 4.5 ohms and my spark plug lead is firmly stuck in the coil and at this stage Im not prepared to force it out so testing the secondary windings by the book (lead removed) is not able to be done yet ! If power is not reaching the coil isnt it safe to assume the coil is ok or not the direct fault cause.
You are correct about there not being a pickup fitted to the TXC I ve checked and there are no brown wires coming from the generator harness. I also checked as you suggesteoild for shorts to ground and where all good execpt the yellow and the white(charge) but Im sure these are supposed to have continuity to earth. I ll price up a coil and lead assembly tomorrow but a new cdi unit is $530 aus dollars ex italy with at least a two week wait, If i wasn t 500 kilometres away I d wheel it into a dealer and tell them to sort it. Your suggetions/help huskyista is appreiciated.
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What I meant was that I couldn't find a diagram like they had for the TE model. The TXC should still have a pickup and it will likely be located in the rotor housing. The wire colors may vary from the TE model. If someone knows different for sure, chime in. As for your mega ohm readings, they do seem bad. The manual states resistance in K ohms and not M ohms for the ignition coil.
 
The wire colours for the pick up are red and green and in my case the resistance is a hundred ohms which I m led to believe is good however I m going to check with a rewind company tomorrow.
 
Finally have spark a friend sent me some parts which I swapped out one by one until it came to the stator/pickup which was last to fit but first to compare multimeter readings with my stator/pickup - Funnily enough all circuits had excactly the same ohms and continuity and I was pretty damm sure it wasn t going to be the problem. Somewhere amongst all my internet homework I read that George from uptite ? was quoated in saying the best way to test these things was to swap them out with a known good unit which he then on the same forum proceeded to cop heaps of insults from self proclaimed experts ? technicians, Thanks George for changing my mind, if I hadnt swapped it I wouldnt be riding next week . Huge thanks to huskyista for your advice and facts, Yule for lending me some parts and Peter from TYRES FOR BIKES our only Husky dealer in Western Australia .
 
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