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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

sooty running

D

dirty_harry

Husqvarna
hey. i have a 2005 250 te and its running a bit sooty. its sorta developed in the last few weeks and is completely blackening my indicator as well as making my nice yellow tail plastic rather black. i took my rocker cover off not long after it started getting really sooty. I found what i think was a baffle to stop oil getting down the breather pipe that should be bolted to the end of the cam shaft was no longer bolted to the cam shaft. so i took that out (the hole was over sized so i couldn't bolt it back on). i also checked the air box and found a bit of engine oil floating round in there so i thought that the broken baffle was letting oil into the airbox. so i re routed the breather hose so that it went up and over the motor to a catch can on the other side (so oil couldnt escape as it would have to go upwards). however it is still running sooty. on a positive though there is no oil in the catch can so routing up and over the engine mustve worked.

my only thought now is maybe its in need of rings. its done about 5500 kms so i dunno. do you guys have any suggestions, is worn rings a reasonable thing to think of?

cheers for your help
harry
 
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