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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Restoring 2011 Husky TE250

EUROJulian

EUROJulian

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi all, new musher here. Just got my first husky this past Friday. I am starting this thread to keep myself motivated in restoring this TE250 i bought. I have many different hobbies and ongoing projects thus I easly get distracted or sidetracked. Once I get new bike I usually start build thread on bike specific board to tap into group knowledge but also to leave something of use behind once I am done with a project.
So this husky thing, wanted a light street legal dirt bike to be able to use tow hitch mount on my truck with ease. Settled on WR250R but couldn't find good specimen in my area for the just price (cheap).
I run across this husky thing and fell in love at first sight. I know it is stupid as I suffered shortcomings of Italian engineering before but no sense to rationalise love. Big forks, nice hubs, Japanese fuel injection, tall and comfortable... Anyway, picked the bike Friday evening. Pros: it was cheap, low mileage - around 650, just 5 years young. Cons: it has full power kit installed, it was used for some trail riding and street stuff mostly doesn't work... To be continued - bed time.
 
Taking it home:
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Body Panels: First order of business was to install factory fender and reinstall side covers correctly. Next Seat was sitting on the top of bent subframe tabs. PO was a nice guy, but cmon... fixed tabs and reinstalled seat correctly . Next left radiator scoop was not fitting right, found rear radiator mounting bolt missing. This is the same bolt that holds radiator fan to the frame. Fixed tabs and realigned radiator and covers fit correctly now.

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First oil change:
How much one can mess up simple oil change. Look like this bike is really vulnerable to fat finger guys. Note crushed old oil filter. Make sure you check that old oil filter seal is not stuck on covers nipple before installing new filter, PO didn't . Seal separates easily from old filter.
Next screen removal, pictured tool make it a breeze.
Last thing using fine thread for soft aluminum crank case, Italians... watch out not to overtorque filter cover ..

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Trench, Oil filter was not installed backwards by PO but with two seals.
I see you guys are vigorously debating that oil viscosity issue. I am in hot, subtropical climate therefore me expirience is different.
 
Btw, using fine thread screws to hold oil filter cover is just bad engineering practice. Crank case is aluminum and cover is intended to be removed frequently. Bad idea. I will be switching to stud and nut setup by the next oil change. Need to source correct studs..
 
;-) I am EU citizen curently banished to tropical paradise...

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My cover takes 6mm driver. I had to turn up side down my whole garage to find it. Do not remember when I had to use it last time..
 
There is a thread somewhere that discusses which brand is the best oil filter to use. If you use an oil filter that is too long or too restrictive it will cause major issues.
 
EUROJulian said:
Trench, Oil filter was not installed backwards by PO but with two seals.
I see you guys are vigorously debating that oil viscosity issue. I am in hot, subtropical climate therefore me expirience is different.
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The best thing about the 0w-40 oil is the way the bike shifts. Also way cheaper than any motorcycle specific oil. The other thing about it is that most wear occurs on start up, and the 0w oil leaves behind a light film of oil to reduce the wear. I've been using the oil as a gun lube too. On a lot of firearm forums, people have discovered that it works better than a lot of the expensive gun lubes.
 
Thank you for the link Joedirt. Interesting read. Looking at the design, In short I am in disagreement that major issues are possible ehen paper filter is bit longer. As long as bypass it is there no "major issues" to the bike.
 
Fords, chaper is always good as long as specification is comparable. Like I said my expirience is different because of ambient temperature operational range due to hot climate. I do not care about improved cold start performance of lower viscosity oils. Mind My "cold" starts are always above 20 degree C, summer time year round. I do care for improved wear protection due to higher load carrying ability of high viscosity oil at engine operational temperature.
 
Best part of the week, goodie packages started to arrive. Some big, some small...
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I decided to replace some of the body plastics for fresh look, rear fender, mud gards, frame protection and belly pan.

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I really wanted to just order updated temperature sensor, as I notice one on the bike was still original black color that likes to fail. Then I started to browse and noticed how cheap are some of the parts. I recently restored Suzuki street bike and their spare parts prices are outrageous.....
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I was hoping to do forks this weekend but seals are late. Got brake pads from Czechy, I used them once before they look good and are TUVs.
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Spark plug has to wait for fuel injector and top engine cleaning that is planned after all tail parts are here. For now I am running tank of fuel with sea foam through it...
 
EUROJulian said:
Fords, chaper is always good as long as specification is comparable. Like I said my expirience is different because of ambient temperature operational range due to hot climate. I do not care about improved cold start performance of lower viscosity oils. Mind My "cold" starts are always above 20 degree C, summer time year round. I do care for improved wear protection due to higher load carrying ability of high viscosity oil at engine operational temperature.
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I meant cold start as your first start up. Not necessarily cold weather, just at first start up when most wear occurs.
 
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