• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

motomanic

motomanic

Husqvarna
A Class
Today finally got the 511 back together after initially taking of the swingarm to fit new sprockets and chain, and plugging in the new JD tuner, I had to replace frame/swingarm bearings and lower shock bearings and rear wheel bearings, due to water ingress causing damage .
My question is, when the bike is running , is the far left green led and far right blue led light the two illuminated on the JD tuner, and no other led?
 
If memory serves, yes. It should move up and down like a tachometer with acceleration. In setup mode they serve a totally different purpose. The instructions
explain all that.
How long have you had the bike ? Has it been exposed to a lot of water? (Creek crossings or pressure washing) You've got me a little concerned about the
state of my bearings as I have yet to take that apart. I've greased the two nipples on the swingarm and linkage. My wheel bearings seem to be good.
So did you notice a significant power increase after installing the JD ?
 
Only put it together yesterday so only spun it up a 100yrds outside the house, so have yet to see how good the JD makes it, I've also changed gearing to 14-52, one smaller one tooth larger on the back, with a new chain. Bought a Supersprox rear and the rivets catch on the chain slider, and it appears to have tight spots which i'm not happy about.
Anway the bearings were looked at on the suspension where it has grease nipples, there was smelly water on the bolt, but bearings were fine, regreased and put back. As a note, when changing the bottom shock bearing, my parts catalogue showed it as one item , but dealer 'realtime online catalogue' showed it as two ( inner pin), beware, you will need both parts. Husky wanted £26 for bearing, I bought it from local Bearing Shop for £6, and am having a few of the inner pins machines as spairs. This had water marks, and both parts needed replacing, same for frame/swinging arm bearings, when I reassembled and put back on the frame protective covers, on the inside are rubber seals, I also smeared them with silicon, to help seal.
Its 21 months old, about 1200 miles, used in uk weather. Covering water crossings, caked in mud, dust, you name it, and a lot of pressure washing, as its the only way to get it clean, and all these areas hold mud and take a lot of clearing especially front sprocket.
So in fairness, its not done bad, but its not a bad jod to disassemble and re-grease/ inspect at more frequent times, they won't last forever.
I have posted about this when I was asking for advice about the bearings, but didn't get much response, I guess it hasn't been an issue, or an undiscovered problem for the majority go 449/511 owners.
 
Took it for a spin across town yesterday, and its certainly lively, lifting the front of tyne throttle, not sure how much is the the gearing, 14/53, I should set the JD to 2's (standard) and see the difference.
But its good, revs out quick and pulls from nothing.,BUT.... a problem I've never come across is the new Renthal 520 chain fitted has tight spot from new, about 40mm difference from slack to correct tension, its not the sprocket, so can only be the chain, anyone else experienced this with a new chain?
 
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