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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Overall Husky Reliability?

95jersey

95jersey

Husqvarna
AA Class
I am new to the Husky brand. I bought a 2013 TXC310r in Nov. Since I have bought it, I have had nothing but problems. The bike ran good for about 5-10 hours, then it went to hell. It started running poorly, the red light came on, and it became more difficult to start. Starting in the cold is almost impossible. I am down on power big time and the bike pop stalls constantly.

On a recent ride the red light came on and started flashing. I was on a trail, so there was little I could do about it. Bike stalled constantly and would not idle and was down at least 30-40% power. I "limped" home.

After that, the bike would simply not run, charged the battery, and it just cranks and I get nothing. I take it to the dealer and they see a temp sensor code, so they replace that...then they still can't get the bike to run and replace the ECU. I was told the bike was "hydro-locked" and the cylinder was full of gas as well as the exhaust. So with parts and labor I paid around $500 as I was past my 30 day warranty (how convenient). So I go to pick up the bike (1.5 hours away) and the bike has a hard time starting, but we get it to run and it seems to run well once warmed up (it was cold and that was the excuse for the poor starting). So I get it home and it won't start, cranks and cranks, pops, gurgles, but won't run. I drain the battery trying to start the thing so I recharge the batter, come back 5 hours later, and same thing, cranks until the battery dies.

This is a BRAND new bike with less than 10 hours. Is this typical? Is this the kind of reliability I should expect? I have a 14 year old YZ250 and it still starts on the 2nd kick and runs like a beast after hundreds of hours. What did I get myself into? Now I have to call him and probably drive back another 1.5 hours on way (because Husky dealers are far and few between) to spend more money on this POS.

Sorry for the rant, but a NEW bike should not have problems in the fist 10 hours like this...
 
Ive had 4 huskys now
2007 610SM
2007 SM510R
2012 WR300
2013 TE449

They have all been prettt awesome. Theyre Italian bikes for the most part and ive learned to expect weird designs and oddities with an Italian bike but, nevertheless, Im happy with them.
 
Each Husky model has its own idiosyncracies, yours is an Xlite and has its own profile of what to look at. Have you pulled the plug to check the spark when it won't start?
 
My X-lite Husky is a 2010 TC250. I have 50.6 hrs on it without any problems other than the engine mounting bolt backing out when I first got it. I solved that with a new bolt and Teflon lock nut. My other Huskys are an 08 CR125/144/165, 2009 TXC510, and now a 2013 TC250 for my son. None of them have had any problems. I agree with reveille it sucks, it's not typical, and I hope you or a tec gets it sorted. Good luck.
 
Do a search here and reports come back of mods that should be done to help with lean running conditions. Seems to be a common issue with these beauties - power up kits.
 
Agree with OHR.... Check plug for good spark, color, etc.... Any loose wire and there are a lot of flimsy wires, can be an issue. See if under tank fuel hose (between the petcosks) is sitting on top of coil/plug and putting strain on the flimsy plug wires ( I route under and verify it's not loading the wires). On reassembly from my dealer I have noted a few issues I had to rectify later. Any wire that is slightly loose will cause intermittent running issues.
 
joedirt said:
What was done that cost $500?
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Diagnosis fee, Replace ECU, replace temp sensor, upgrade the cheap plastic T fuel elbow with aluminum, replace spark plug, change oil, drain gas from cylinder and exhaust, labor, and update to CR open exhaust map.

I am thinking since he had the tank off and changed the plug, he would have seen any loose wires (at least one hopes).
 
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