• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Rear suspension linkage on TE 449/511

Rearwheelin

Rearwheelin

Husqvarna
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Just want to give kudos to the 449/511 Husky's for being so well engineered on the rear suspension .... The only linkage necessary to take apart for greasing is the shock bolts, everything else is greased threw two grease fittings.... Swingarm doesn't need removal for greasing only need to remove swingarm bolt on each side to easily get greese to bearings. The more I try to take care of this bike the more I realize how great of a bike my TE511 is ! Best trail bike I have ever owned and the stock muffler is tough as nails in a crash ! Ha ha
 
Rearwheelin said:
Just want to give kudos to the 449/511 Husky's for being so well engineered on the rear suspension .... The only linkage necessary to take apart for greasing is the shock bolts, everything else is greased threw two grease fittings.... Swingarm doesn't need removal for greasing only need to remove swingarm bolt on each side to easily get greese to bearings. The more I try to take care of this bike the more I realize how great of a bike my TE511 is ! Best trail bike I have ever owned and the stock muffler is tough as nails in a crash ! Ha ha
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630 has the same deal. Two grease fittings cover all but the shock mounts.
 
Cannot find this procedure in owners manual. Could you please give a link or screenshot? Thanks.
How do you guys wash your bikes, do you use special protection cover for air box inlet? If yes which one. Thank you
 
I absolutely LOVE the fact that the linkage is on top of the arm!
More bike should do this.
It gives the smooth swingarm underside of a PDS type bike with a proper rising rate linkage!

Also love the time & energy they must have put into making the rear shock easy to remove.
Side plate off, two bolts out & with a little streaching near the tank, out it pops!! I have to pull the whole arse end off my CRF450 to get it's shock out....
 
Rearwheelin said:
Just want to give kudos to the 449/511 Husky's for being so well engineered on the rear suspension .... The only linkage necessary to take apart for greasing is the shock bolts, everything else is greased threw two grease fittings.... Swingarm doesn't need removal for greasing only need to remove swingarm bolt on each side to easily get greese to bearings. The more I try to take care of this bike the more I realize how great of a bike my TE511 is ! Best trail bike I have ever owned and the stock muffler is tough as nails in a crash ! Ha ha
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Just a update. I sold the TE511 a while back and I stand firm on the ease of maintenance on the swing arm still, was a good bike . I recant my position on it being the best trail bike that I have ever owned. That award goes to my 2013 XC-W 300 . It has it beet everywhere but the swing arm department. ..... By a long shoot ! Funny I posted this but I am getting likes on really old comments still :)
 
Rearwheelin said:
Just a update. I sold the TE511 a while back and I stand firm on the ease of maintenance on the swing arm still, was a good bike . I recant my position on it being the best trail bike that I have ever owned. That award goes to my 2013 XC-W 300 . It has it beet everywhere but the swing arm department. ..... By a long shoot ! Funny I posted this but I am getting likes on really old comments still :)
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2 totally different bikes. I have a CR250 husky for the tighter woods riding and a 511 for the more open stuff. The 511 is way better int he open and the CR250 is way better in the tight. the CR250 (or your 13 300) cant do the stuff I do on the 511 and can't hang with it in the wide open. I own both for these reasons. 2 strokes rule for tight off road but the big 4 strokes rule when it opens up.
 
Motosportz said:
2 totally different bikes. I have a CR250 husky for the tighter woods the CR250 is way better in the tight. the CR250 (or your 13 300)
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xcw 300 is way better than a CR250 in the woods and flat out . Its gearbox and E-start . Comes in really handy in the Dez .
Motosportz said:
2 strokes rule for tight off road but the big 4 strokes rule when it opens up.
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Not true ! For my TE511 to be enjoyable on the ST I ride I needed a 13/50 gearing . That gave me a 35-40 mph safe cruising speed. With a 13/53 on my xcw I can crawl slower and cruise 50 mph at 5k rpm.... If I wanted a first gear like a stock TE 51 then I would gear up to a 14/42 and run 105 at 8k rpm but who really runs 105 mph in the Dez for very long . I do miss some of the bottom end power of a 4t but really prefer the smoothness of a 2t when going slow, I would probably still be riding the husky but I hated the tranny. Now that I have been on my current platform this bike is almost effortless to ride compared to the 511, fast or slow.
 
Rearwheelin said:
xcw 300 is way better than a CR250 in the woods and flat out
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No it is not. More top end speed but very similar in the tight sections. I ride with piles of KTM300's as I did this saturday (decked out 2014 KTM 6 days in fact). In fact most 2 strokes of the last 10-15 years are very similar. A YZ250 has been a great bike since the mid 90's. Depending on how you set them up they are all very competitive. I ride with brand spanking new KTM and other bikes 2-3 times a week and never feel outgunned at all. I ride with a KTM300 and KTM 350 a lot. Both love my CR250 husky as setup. The 350 guy wants one bad. Last ride he was begging me to ride it. A well setup 2 stroke from the last 10-15 years is as competitive as anything in the tight woods.


Rearwheelin said:
Not true ! For my TE511 to be enjoyable on the ST I ride I needed a 13/50 gearing . That gave me a 35-40 mph safe cruising speed. With a 13/53 on my xcw I can crawl slower and cruise 50 mph at 5k rpm.... If I wanted a first gear like a stock TE 51 then I would gear up to a 14/42 and run 105 at 8k rpm but who really runs 105 mph in the Dez for very long . I do miss some of the bottom end power of a 4t but really prefer the smoothness of a 2t when going slow, I would probably still be riding the husky but I hated the tranny. Now that I have been on my current platform this bike is almost effortless to ride compared to the 511, fast or slow.
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Just my opinion form my local experience. You are in Cali, go to many open off road races? Are there more 2 strokes or 4 strokes? Seems to me 4 strokes outnumber 2 strokes by a HUGE margin in the more open races. Then you go to woods races and it flip flops. At least thats my experience.

All good, enjoy your bike. If you ever make it up this way and we can see if your bike is WAY better than my 13 year old POS. I ride with piles of much newer bikes and I'm usually not in the rear of the pack.

- Anyway, back to the linkage post...
 
Rearwheelin said:
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I do miss some of the bottom end power of a 4t but really prefer the smoothness of a 2t when going slow, I would probably still be riding the husky but I hated the tranny. Now that I have been on my current platform this bike is almost effortless to ride compared to the 511, fast or slow.
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I'm not a fan of the close ratio box on my TE449 either.
1st is taller that my old WR450 & 6th is lower, even though the WR only had 5 gears.
That said, I run the factory gearing (15:50 is it) & with some nifty clutch work can trials ride that sucker up over most obstacles. It runs away down hill more than a 4T should but I can't gear it down as I loose road speed up top.
Ridden several 300 EXCs, I don't like them, you are aloud to but they aren't for me.
No more power than a 450 4T, they vibrate like they're broken through the bars (all four bikes I've tried), no engine braking & gotta find a way to mix fuel for top ups :(
Love my 4Ts, you love the 2Ts, we're all different.
 
Dangermouse449 said:
they vibrate like they're broken through the bars (all four bikes I've tried), no engine braking & gotta find a way to mix fuel for top ups :(
Love my 4Ts, you love the 2Ts, we're all different.
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It will shake the T-strone right out your balls after a while you like it !
 
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