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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Starter staying engaged after bike warms up

Tessier

Tessier

Husqvarna
AA Class
For those of you following the X lites and there starting issues you may know that I finally got my bike back from the dealer after just over a month.:banghead: I have had my bike for 7 month's and the battery is already dead (POS****************************************!!). I was so excited to finally get my bike back I figured I would give it a try and head out for a short prerace break in to ensure everything was good to go before loading up and driving 7 hours to an enduro in NY. Well the bike started up fine and after a few hours of starting stoping and goofing around. The battery was completely dead already so no big deal I'll just pull out the kick started and get back to riding. First kick and I can feel the starter is staying engaged. Now I am pissed! So Second kick lets document this with a video see the video below. Third kick I am really pissed and drive the kick started as hard as I can and it fires up. I am sure someone has had this happen. I remember reading about it somewhere on here but couldn't find it by searching. Anyone have any suggestions because I certainly don't feel like bringing it back 1.5 hours to the dealer :mad: and waiting another month for them to resolve it!


Also anyone know if any damage would have been done to the starter from it being engaged while kicking and riding? For the rest of the ride it was intermittent and happened a few more times but also was not engaged a couple times when it stalled. Either way I am getting to the point where I really wish I hadn't sold my trusty Yamaha. BTW Didn't bother with the Enduro:censored:
 
I had a similar, problem. My problem was probably originally the starter clutch, and that sounds like your problem too. Once the problem started, it got worse over the course of one ride until I couldn't start the bike at all. The dealer fixed it under warranty.

Either take it to the dealer, or pull the flywheel and check out the starter clutch yourself.
 
yup, the sprag clutch is stuck. Time to pull the flywheel and check the key for shearing.

check flywheel fit with Prussian Blue and lap flywheel to crank with valve lapping compound and use Loctite retaining compound (609?) if you want...torque to spec.
 
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