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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE630 dying...bad fuel pump?

DYNOBOB

DYNOBOB

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Looks like I may be joining the dying bike club. Went camping/riding in a state forest 2hrs from home over the weekend (trailered there). My bike is 9 months old w/ 2000 miles and has run perfectly until now. On Sat it was hard to start and flashed the FI light once. On Sun I felt it stutter while riding a few times and it started and died several times several times in a row. At least once the fuel pump did not cycle on when I turned the key on. I debated abandoning the ride (was way back in on gravel roads) and heading for the trailer but decided to chance it and continue riding (hunters were everywhere, I could have got a ride to truck). It seemed to clear up as the day went on and it starts fine now. Needless to say it has shaken my faith in the bike and taking it on a longer trip.

Since you can't troubleshoot when its working, I took the bike apart today and permanently installed a fuel pressure gauge up by the speedo and a small LED light hooked to the fuel pump wires. The next time it does it I can look down and verify that the pump has 12v to it and see whether it is making fuel pressure. BTW, fuel pressure is 45psi when primed and running.

T'd into the fuel line. The line has a hard plastic tube inside the rubber line. I modified the T that came w/ my Harbor Freight fuel pres check kit to fit tight into the fuel line and cut out a piece of line equal to the length of the T fitting. Didn't take pic of gauge yet.

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LED on top of speedo.

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I also drained muddy brown coolant out of the bike today. What's up w/ that?

It did test -25 on the coolant checker though.


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Sorry to hear it fella- I sure know what it's like to feel that diminished confidence in the bike.

I don't have solid input specific to the fuel system/pump, but last weekend when my harness/connector (to the voltage regulator) frayed to the point of shorting/frying I was riding along and the bike started hiccuping as though I was out of fuel. My pump was also not cycling properly. I guess my point, as I'm sure you've thought of, is that it's possible you have a short somewhere that could be causing the symptoms.

My coolant (a couple weekends ago when I replaced a radiator) looked pretty clean overall, though I did get some brownish drippage out of the lower hoses. I've read that it's not uncommon w/ a fairly new Husq.

I like the idea/work you did- good job and good luck.
 
DYNOBOB said:
...On Sat it was hard to start and flashed the FI light once.
...Since you can't troubleshoot when its working, ...
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Sure you can. The flashing neutral light is our "check engine" light equivalent. Hook it up to iBeat and the error code with fault reason will be stored.

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Unfortunately I don't have access to iBeat (nearest dealer is 3hr drive). Good chance I'm going to purchase it though.


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