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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE450 Hard to start, runs rough

B

Bobby Ginger

Husqvarna
A Class
It finally happend, after 7 months of ownership, I got stranded by my boutique race bike :(. I really have not had problems with this bike that were not self inflicted, and it is sooo much better than my first dirt scoot(drz).

So here are the details:
TE450
2008
3k miles
1/2 p/u kit, arrow exhaust, skeleton basket, O2 sensor still installed
always had a bit of hesitation but never bad enough to bother me
I have not done major manitnence to the bike
Recently my safari was leaking, I plugged the hole with some creative melting
Re-installed the tank
Fired up no problems....until

Trailed down to the forest this morning, on the road for about 20 miles.
Stated to get ready for dirt riding and when I chopped the throttle and then tried to roll on the bike died.

This happend once more riding some deep woops, scary almost had me crashed.

At the end of the 8 mile trail we took a break. I could not get the bike started, button, kicker, bump...nothing.

We let it cool down, and tried again...no dice.

At this point the battery was pretty low...last bump start before we went and got the trailer and it fired then died. So tried again, as soon as it fired i reved it high and it stay running. I could only keep it running with at least 30-40 percent throttle. 100% throttle and it would run fine. Once I shut it off, same thing no start.

After some quick reading I wanted to eliminate a spark issue. Plently of spart so that is fine. After doing some reading, I am starting to think it is an TPS issue.

Questions:

Does this make sense?

Should I persue the TPS route?

No close dealers, does anyone have an Ibeat exchange going on?

Please Help!
 
Check your intake boot, a leak of air will kill it at low RPM but it can overcome the additional air at higher RPMs.

Try starting it with the throttle fully open, that's how I discovered my intake leak, it cranked up and revved to the moon. Be ready on the kill button.
 
No sir. I was hopoing for somthing simple like this. I actually read where yours failed before I bought mine. I was concened with reliability and your thread was one I read. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
Also if it makes a difference, this is not a little finiky issue. It is night and day, I cannot ride the bike in its current condition.
 
My post from ADV

Man Jake knows what he is talking about. Must be all those miles on the red beast
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So here is how it went down.

After I checked the spark, I put the tank back on to check if I had done any good. No dice.

At Jake's suggestion I check the boot, no dice.

At Matt's suggestion I check the pump and hoses, after dousing my self in gas and spilled all over the garage floor, I check the assembly, nothing out of order.

I wanted to check the wires again and when I did, what did I see?

Hmm, maybe that spark plug wire would do a better job on the plug
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Yep replaced, put the tank on added a little gas and VAVOOOOOOM!

So happy i did not have to chase it any further.

Thanks for the help guys, I am sure I will be back
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So the problem was 99% the spark plug wire was loose, 1% I jostled somthing in the fuel pump assembly.
 
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