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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE511 air filter report...

Motosportz

Motosportz

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So i have checked the filter once, about 200 miles ago, was nearly spotless. So last night at 497 miles I pulled it out again, about 85% clean still but decided to clean it anyway as i wanted to use my trusted filter oil. It does take a few more minutes to remove, pull the seat, 5 screws, side panel and 2 clips and it slides out cassette style. Not hard at all but not a no tool affair. The up side is how amazingly clean the air filter is after two quite dusty rides (one in the Dez silt where i followed close to get gopro vids) and lots of water crossings and washes. My other bikes the filter would be thrashed by now and soaked from washes and water crossings and covered in silt. In the winter in the PNW the filters in a standard air box gets hammered from water / mud as much as dust. Another up side is the dirty side of the air box comes out with the filter so you can completely and easily wash it. The large flat filter is super EZ to wash because of the flat shape (always liked this on the 610's as well) and quick to dry with a hair dryer. Over all the procedure was EZ, the air box stays VERY clean and out of the water, and the air filter seems to stay cleaner than most even after about 3 times as long intervals. Just as i had hoped.

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very clean for 500 miles...

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Pretty stoked about this as i hate cleaning filters, looks like i will be doing it about a 3rd less than I used to.

BTW it is not like i have babied this bike ether, first 3 rides were snow and mud, last rides have been mud snow and silt.

Bring it!

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up high and out of the dust, that thing was barely dusted.
One day of dry riding here with the crew and I can find a full heavy coating of dust on the 08 TXC filter, the kind that balls up when you slide a finger over the filter to check it. That is great design feature of your new tech machines (449/511 family).
 
Hello, I enjoyed all your posts on the 2011 te511. I just bought one (first dual sport and first Husky) and I'm looking to inexpensively liven the beast up to its real potential. Besides hollowing out the stock exhaust, I was wondering what else I can do. Thanks
 
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