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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Slow starting 450?

G

Gabe Pari

Husqvarna
A Class
I recently picked up a 2010 TE450 with 102 hours and 2100 miles. While the bike was obviously ridden like they are meant to be (dents, scratches, etc...) it seemed well cared for. After going through the bike and replacing most of the wear components and checking valve clearances and such, I started riding it. From the day I picked it up, it seemed like the starter was "weak". I ruled out the battery, wiring, relays, auto-decomp, etc... It continued to be very difficult to start on the button. Didn't bother me much since it would start on the first kick, whether cold or hot.

The last ride, the starter just up and quit completely, no biggie finished the ride with the kicker (why manufacturers don't put a kickstart on new bikes is beyond me). Now I had a reason to pull the starter, and I just happen to have a spare one in the box of parts that came with the bike. Pulled the old one out and opened it up. The brush springs were rusted, one of them was actually broke in two pieces. The brushes were also gummed up with what appeared to be very silty mud. The weak rusty springs weren't pushing the brushes against the armature strong enough for current to flow. I dropped the new starter in and the bike blipped to life immediately when I pressed the magic e-button. I plan to rebuild the old starter and keep it as a spare.

I guess the point of this post is a public service announcement of sorts :) The starter is not sealed against water/mud, and the steel springs are definitely vulnerable. Slow starting and/or hanging on the compression stroke, might not be a sign of bad battery or failing auto-decomp cam. Check the starter, it might be on it's way out...

Happy riding!
 
Well I finally got around to it, mine was hanging on the compression stroke as well but only when first starting cold. Pulled the starter motor apart, mostly in very good condition. Cleaned everything and polished up the contact points of the brushes and commutator. Hey presto, turns over quicker and starts easily. A trick I have learnt to use when holding the brushes back is to use a small lenght of tube from the inside of a biro or pen and wedge it between the brush wire and some other part of the brush assembly.
 
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