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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE449 Acting Finicky? A quick list of things to check.

Huskynoobee

Huskynoobee

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Yep, you've probably read this stuff on quite a few threads, but I thought I'd compile a few key common things to look at on your new or recent issue TE449. It took quite a bit of searching for these as these issues came up for me, so why not get them together and add links to associated threads here on Cafe Husky.

I'm no guru, so please add what I've missed. Perhaps it can become a sticky?

Here goes...

1. Tighten all the nuts, bolts, and screws. Not just the first day, but every day. Blue Locktite is your friend, don't ignore your friend!

2. Don't overfill the crankcase on oil changes. It will just dump into the airbox and make a mess of the valve cover, frame, and the wire harness under the seat.

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/best-explanation-for-oil-in-the-airbox-te-449-511.25484/

3. If it won't run consistently, do a TPS (throttle posistion sensor) re-set. This cures many problems that suddenly come up on a bike that has been running well.

http://www.cafehusky.com/posts/237375/

4. The fuel map that comes stock is okay, but a bit on the lean side. Adding the jumper to the wire harness that is located either in front of, or just below the ECM under the seat will enable Race Map II. It will show up on the speedo display after the engine has been started. You will enjoy more power that is also more usable. While many remove the O2 sensor, it's not necessary and you'll need it if you decide to go back to Map I for any reason.

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/race-map-ii-when-powered-up.17673/page-2#post-187864

5. The smog canister is a main cause of unhappiness in the middle of a hot ride. Not to mention it's UGLY and just waiting to get smashed, snagged, or otherwise cause more problems that it's worth. If your mount is out of warranty, or you just can't stand how lousy a hot re-start can be, get rid of that thing. It just takes a few minutes and is worth every ounce of effort.

http://www.cafehusky.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2265&highlight=canister
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/08-emissions-canister.2017/

Pictorial near bottom of page. Shows 310, but identical procedure.

6. Depending on how well your FI works, where you live, if you replace the stock exhaust, and your style of riding, consider a JD Tuner. There are many who sing it's praises here on Cafe Husky. Motosportz seems a good resource (I'm not a shill, heck I haven't even bought anything there...yet)

http://www.motosportz.com/HVA-SS/HVA-SS-Home.htm

7. If you still have the Karoo tires, start shopping around now for replacements. Besides feeling like ice skates unless you run low pressures, the rear is good for 500-600 miles.

8. Get the factory shop manual. The book it comes with is all but worthless, and the thumb drive is only a little bit better in that it covers only the most basic of maintenance items.

http://www.husqvarnafactory.nl/pdf/2011.htm

9. Take the time to dial in the suspension. It responds quite well to basic adjustments and you could find that expensive re-vavle job you were thinking of won't be needed. There are different springs available if needed as well. Motosportz seems a good resource (I'm not a shill, heck I haven't even bought anything there...yet)

http://www.motosportz.com/HVA-SS/HVA-SS-Home.htm
 
Sweet thread, thanks! Now if only someone would chime in how to do a TPS reset on 2012 TEs that don't come with an ignition key.
 
erktastic said:
Sweet thread, thanks! Now if only someone would chime in how to do a TPS reset on 2012 TEs that don't come with an ignition key.
Click to expand...

Unplug the battery for about 5 minutes and hook it back up, should reset it to factory defaults on most models.
 
Do you still need to rotate the throttle? I was wondering myself what the procedure is on the '12 models with no key. Whooda thunk they'd ditch the key anyway.:excuseme:
 
I guess the one thing I didn't mention was that lots of this stuff applies to the TE 511 as well.
 
Great idea. Thanks for taking the time to do this. Makes sense to lump everything into one thread and whatever other issue may
arise hopefully they will be added to this thread. Maybe pin it to the top for easy access. :cheers:
 
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