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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE-449 or 511 for a "leatherman" tool of bikes.....why one over the other

jerbear610 said:
If you're in the middle of nowhere in the state of Washington state I'm sure there will be a hill near by, just bump start it. In all the electric
start bikes I've owned, TE511, TE610, KLX650, I've never had an issue with the electric start not working. 15 Yrs and never even replaced a starter.
I wouldn't worry about it.
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I killed the battery on my 610 by leaving my grip heaters on all night. Wouldn't bump start for love nor money, even though it's a carb'd model.
I was in the desert and there was one hill nearby. We towed it up the hill and I tried to bump it all the way down. No go. About a year later my started failed and I had to purchase another one. I now have 3 keys for my bike instead of an already-stupid 2.

I carry a tiny little set of jumper cables now.
 
WoodsChick said:
I killed the battery on my 610 by leaving my grip heaters on all night. Wouldn't bump start for love nor money, even though it's a carb'd model.
I was in the desert and there was one hill nearby. We towed it up the hill and I tried to bump it all the way down. No go. About a year later my started failed and I had to purchase another one. I now have 3 keys for my bike instead of an already-stupid 2.

I carry a tiny little set of jumper cables now.
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I bet you also wire your grip heaters switched not too :D
 
WoodsChick said:
I killed the battery on my 610 by leaving my grip heaters on all night. Wouldn't bump start for love nor money, even though it's a carb'd model.
I was in the desert and there was one hill nearby. We towed it up the hill and I tried to bump it all the way down. No go. About a year later my started failed and I had to purchase another one. I now have 3 keys for my bike instead of an already-stupid 2.

I carry a tiny little set of jumper cables now.
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I don't know how much they changed between the carb'ed and FI 610's but there is a way to get a FI 610 to run without a battery. Install a capacitor in it's place.

I was able to bump start my 610 without a battery, only a capacitor. After having 2 failed batteries I have the capacitor installed permanently so if the battery fails again I can disconnect it and run without it until I can find a replacement.

http://youtu.be/F1C14A2rVbc
 
NICE POST!

Thank you....:applause:

someone needs to see if this will work with the NEW FI systems....

Nice Info, thank you for posting and doing the vid!

HR

BrandonR said:
I don't know how much they changed between the carb'ed and FI 610's but there is a way to get a FI 610 to run without a battery. Install a capacitor in it's place.

I was able to bump start my 610 without a battery, only a capacitor. After having 2 failed batteries I have the capacitor installed permanently so if the battery fails again I can disconnect it and run without it until I can find a replacement.

http://youtu.be/F1C14A2rVbc
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BrandonR said:
I don't know how much they changed between the carb'ed and FI 610's but there is a way to get a FI 610 to run without a battery. Install a capacitor in it's place.

I was able to bump start my 610 without a battery, only a capacitor. After having 2 failed batteries I have the capacitor installed permanently so if the battery fails again I can disconnect it and run without it until I can find a replacement.

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I like that Brandon :thumbsup:
First time I see this, did I miss it on the 610 board or was it never on there?
You probably oughta put it on there if you haven't already did :cheers:
 
Have you considered an '06 - '10 TC, TE, or TXC 510? These things are beasts and the motors are over 500cc. I have an '06 TC510 with electric start and love the bike. They got better every year too.
 
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