• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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TE511 TL Failure?

R

Riding Again

Husqvarna
AA Class
So I am about to purchase a TE511 and I have been doing a ton of research. Former Husqvarna TR650 Terra owner. So realize the research is key to owning these bikes. Alot of research I have come accross a common TL concern of failure. Not if it will happen but more when it will happen like the stater bolts. So it leads me to another product I recently stubled upon because I have been used to bigger bikes with cush drives.

Any one use a cush drive sproket? Do you think this may help down the road on these bikes because of the TL failure?

https://www.motomox.co.nz/shop/show_single_product.php?prod=499

http://www.cushdrive.com/
 
I had the TL go on my '11 SMR511 (feels like a slipping clutch), but that was during a track day (WOT the whole day), ambient temp 40C. I've not known anyone else personally who had one let go, but in saying that, an oil recirc kit and running a higher volume of oil will increase the longevity of the entire engine, not just the TL. I put a zipty kit (there's a few other kits out there) when I got the bike back from getting a new TL.

I never had any issues with my Stator in 15,000km, I guess the 2011 bikes were built better?? but I never checked it either :p A Cush drive hub, or sprocket will have zero effect on the Torque limiter, it fails due to overheating and the friction coating softening and wearing off I had a slipper clutch on my 511 for most of it's life. Cush drive will however help with gearbox longevity.
 
Caiman- That makes perfect sense actually was not thinking about it correctly. Realistically the cushsprocket only help gear impact wear, output shaft, sprockets and chain.

I guess an auxiliary oil cooler may help the TL a lot more then. I seen a member by fittings to make a oil cooler on advrider. Although he sold his bike before he installed the whole set up. I also have to remember this is not designed to last 100k miles like my last two bikes. I am looking for a dirt bike with maybe 20 miles ride to get to the location.

Although I wish we had the 900 nuda here in the US! Awesome Motorcycle!
 
Torque limiter failures are a direct result of load and heat.
Towing another bike, or full power in high grip situations (like motard riding) can induce slip in the torque limiter to save the gearbox, as it's designed to do. Continuing to create these slip events wears out the friction faces of the plates and makes them slip more, and the cycle repeats until it fails.
Not a common occurrence, but does happen.

The comment above about the stator bolts perhaps being better in the 2011 models isn't really true, my stator screws were loose at 120hrs, at which point I re-treated them with Loctite and they failed at 237hrs and destroyed the stator.
Definitely replace the screws with store bought standard M6 x 12 grade 10.9 cap screws.
Never use the Husqvana or BMW low profile ones.
 
Unfortunately, this is exactly what it feels on mine since this weekend ride... No, I'm not pushing the bike at all, I'm an amateur rider, however, it already has 7k miles on it. It feels like the clutch is slipping, especially on the 5-6 gears. I will have to investigate the clutch today (which I'm not sure how it supposed to look) and the next step will be to investigate the torque limiter, (which again, I'm not sure how it supposed to look/feel) :)
 
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