• 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Skid plate TC250R

Robbe144

Robbe144

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi
My skid plate is showing some wear and I’ve started to look for a new one.
I tried the OEM plastic one but it fell off somewhere in the woods :( should have locktited it...

Which one do you guys recommend?F2EB894A-B5F0-48D1-9333-E77EBF1A6491.jpeg
 
Robbe-
I have 7000+ off-road miles on my 310R and I am on my 3rd stock plastic one. Not a ringing endorsement but for $12 (IIRC) WTH. they give reasonable protection, but have a tendency to crack after a few hundred logs.

I own an EE aluminum skid plate... but never mounted it yet. I just recently got around to blocking off the oil return line; the stock ones have been adequate. someday though.

I like the TMD ones but they're spendy. I also like the Hyde design, but people reported long delivery times.

skid plate TMD.jpg black hyde skid plate.jpg
 
I've got the TM Designs on my TE250 and has worked great for me through the last 3 years of riding. has some good wrap around coverage and is quick and easy to install and remove when changing the oil. No complaints but yes it does cost $100 bucks or so. and if you're looking for flash on your bike you will be waiting for the red colored one. they had all the black ones you could want when i ordered mine but the red ones were order only and you would be waiting for who knows how long to receive.
 
Trenchcoat85 said:
Robbe-
I have 7000+ off-road miles on my 310R and I am on my 3rd stock plastic one. Not a ringing endorsement but for $12 (IIRC) WTH. they give reasonable protection, but have a tendency to crack after a few hundred logs.

I own an EE aluminum skid plate... but never mounted it yet. I just recently got around to blocking off the oil return line; the stock ones have been adequate. someday though.

I like the TMD ones but they're spendy. I also like the Hyde design, but people reported long delivery times.

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My friends found it in the woods Yep for that price - stock it is.
“Blocking off oil return line” sounds interesting - how do you do that?
Tore one off - they sit rather unprotected..
 
Robbe144 said:
My friends found it in the woods Yep for that price - stock it is.
“Blocking off oil return line” sounds interesting - how do you do that?
Tore one off - they sit rather unprotected..
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well, it's an incomplete job at the moment.... basically I'm going to plumb like a TC sorta, but vented to the airbox, not the atmosphere.

at the moment, I have plugged the inlet (oil drain bolt) but the hose is still clamped on.
 
Tip TY had nice plastic ones cheap a while back and they seem to work great even in "boulder land" NE PA.

I have the P3 carbon fiber one on my 250. It is the best but expensive.
 
Trenchcoat85 said:
well, it's an incomplete job at the moment.... basically I'm going to plumb like a TC sorta, but vented to the airbox, not the atmosphere.

at the moment, I have plugged the inlet (oil drain bolt) but the hose is still clamped on.
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Ok I have thought about putting a small piece of pipe there like the wrfs. So you can just plug the bottom inlet and use the upper one as a vent?
I’ve seen guys putting like a plastic spiral on that oil line just to give it some more protection.
 
the upper one is the vent; but the TC uses it as the liquid oil return also. To do this on a TE you would have to re-route the vent hose from the upper tank port (frame) to the lower.... which I plan to do. someday.
 
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