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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC TE300 passes the test

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
We rode an event yesterday that is the toughest local 1 day fun/extreme ride checked in at 0900 signed out at 1650. The new bike got some new scratches and my new gear got some tears.... but we made it through all the AA stuff and finished, this was the toughest of these yet but the skill level of entries has increased we had 41 from 105 (way overbooked)finish this year. I would call this years event relentless. Every time you would hit a flowing trail you would come around a corner and be confronted with next gnarly steep climb or rock infested wash. The bike worked great with minor exceptions, rear sag is to low/deep as I mentioned...as far as the front spring ...for now I will only change the rear spring, the front was working great. My carburation or carbby needs some adjustment I got between 10-15 mpg... ran out of gas near the end of the second section, after the first section put about 2 gallons in and that was "only" a 35 mile section, the second after lunch section was about 40 miles, I will pull the carb and check float level, I all ready rejetted by the book setting for altitude and temp to the next leanest setting. One of the organizers of this event is mr 300 and has ISDE and many other years on KTM300s, he will send me his data, I fully trust him we ride the same stuff.
Important Also anyone know the proper index of the carb on these 300 motors, the manifold has a molded in mark but when you align the carb to this mark it looks suspiciously off level, the bowl points towards the chain.

There was a good amount of industry/pro rider/legend rider participation and swag as usual.
 
Sounds like an interesting time in many ways and you have something to build on for the next race :) ... 15 MPG sounds awfully low and scratches on my bike and rips in my gear, are SOP ...
 
I think shes leaking from the float bowl like Kelly and I mentioned as well I will pull the carbby. Tim do you know about the molded in mark on the manifold? It looks like a proper carb alignment mark, but if I align the carb to it it seems way tilted, I did not pay attention to the factory index position, if they Kato factory have the float set for that marked angle install and I rotated it more to level more gas will fill the float bowl and probably over flow. I dont have a shop manual
 
Tim do you know about the molded in mark on the manifold?
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I didnt , I just put mine where it looked right. I leaned my bike over until it dripped fuel and it was quite a ways over so I left my floats alone.
 
we can now get back to the ride itself when h cam and fotos come in I will try to post, I did not wear my h cam, on this ride there is just too much stuff going here for me to have had another thing to worry about. But i did see some h cammers as well as our regular foto takers
 
Mine also fouled a plug with the stock jetting. I pulled the plug and it had a NGK 7 in it , thought that was a little weird . All I had was a NGK 8 , replaced it with that and runs just fine.
 
My #1 worry was running stock tires with tubes!!! But i figured 99% of the guys are using tubes, so I would just join the conga line with tube changing gear in the trail pack...I will get my mousses installed this week. it was just a "little bit" rocky out there.

on a Beta note there were quite a few Beta 300RR and race versions and one 498(whoa) Betas really come up off idle very very clean...those guys were just chugging up stuff , we had 2 in our crew as well as our local dealer friend on his 300 for hardcore enduro/extremo stuff out of the box...that 300RR is badass, my TE300 will be tuned into that style. Thats my benchmark
 
TROFFER88 said:
Mine also fouled a plug with the stock jetting. I pulled the plug and it had a NGK 7 in it , thought that was a little weird . All I had was a NGK 8 , replaced it with that and runs just fine.
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what was the stock jetting? Must have been crazy rich? And a 7 is odd. is thats what is spec'ed for these?
 
Motosportz, this man needs a Lectron :)

Robertaccio, you've been spoiled by Efi for to long :).

So with the float level does it make a bike harder to start by flooding the motor? Or is it just that it dumps fuel?
 
Tim I have a mantra never to change factory heat range plug settings, but that's just me, ( 7 being hotter then 8)
 
robertaccio said:
Tim I have a mantra never to change factory heat range plug settings, but that's just me, ( 7 being hotter then 8)
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I agree but he went cooler so at the very least will not harm anything. Its odd they spec'ed a 7 when almost every other 250-300 class bike runs a 8.
 
LandofMotards said:
Motosportz, this man needs a Lectron :)
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Tim has several of them. Maybe one will find its way to this bike one day. I have sold piles of them to KTM owners. 454x says they work great on the Beta's too. All that said I'm sure the stock carb can be configured to work well and get good milage. I have been on and heard about many first rides on new KTM's where they get crazy bad milage like this and it is many times a float level issue where they pee fuel all day. Buddy Rollie (KTM 250) has a stock rejetting carb and it gets good mileage and runs really good.
 
LoM I am happy to have the simplicity of a carb again, it will just take some very minor personal settings for me.
I will most likely have 2 carbby sttings my "Altitude/heat lean setting (90% of my riding) and my Dez/Nat H&H setting (sea level fatter WOT setting, prob OEM manual sea level setting)

as for FI I liked my Mikuni FI much better than my state of the Keihin MX/offroad stuff, I always wanted an accelerator pump for the Keihin FI, I even thought seriously to install a FCR carb onto the TXC310R.....
 
Motosportz said:
Tim has several of them. Maybe one will find its way to this bike one day. I have sold piles of them to KTM owners. 454x says they work great on the Beta's too.
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Motosportz Im thinking it has to do with EU standards for the OEM homologated corked up street legal versions of the 2 stroke enduros, relating to the plug heat range thought.
 
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