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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Those Little Things

SilverBullet

SilverBullet

Husqvarna
AA Class
As the title states this thread is about those little things that set your TE630 apart. Either well thought out engineering/design or they missed the boat. Here is my list so far.

Pros:
  • Flash to pass high beam trigger switch.
  • Seat removes with just ignition key.
  • Side panels remove without any tools.
  • Easy access spark plug.
  • Steering lock integrated into ignition switch.
  • Headlights are not powered on until engine is running.
  • Ingenius valve rocker spacer clip system (no special tools or cam holder removal to adjust valves).
  • Quick/easy front & rear wheel removal (spacers stay on hubs, brake calipers/brackets stay in place, no odometer gear).
  • Extremely accurate speedometer. Usually with a couple tenths of mph.
  • Very bright LED tailight/stoplight. Nearly double the brightness of other lights.
  • Neutral light operation toggles on/off with kill switch.
Cons:
  • No helmet lock.
  • Ignition key hard to access/turn with winter gloves.
  • Recess around fuel cap filler plate traps water.
  • Turn signal and horn switch placement are reversed from typical postion.
  • Spark plug drain hole doesn’t completely drain if bike is on sidestand. If bike started without leaning to the right first you will boil water and display gets a steambath and fogs up.
  • Side stand is shaky on pavement and nearly unusable in the dirt.
  • Instant accuracy speedometer causes display to quickly jump around.
 
Helmet lock - I finally found a use for all those damn cable gun locks Kommifornia makes you buy with a pistol. If you don't have the grab rails it weaves perfectly through the hole for hideaway stowage.
 
kingmoochr said:
Helmet lock - I finally found a use for all those damn cable gun locks Kommifornia makes you buy with a pistol. If you don't have the grab rails it weaves perfectly through the hole for hideaway stowage.
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HILARIOUS! I thought i was the only Cali captive who used these silly things for anything but the gun!:D
 
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You can see it here where the right grab rail would be :banana: If you still have yours I'm sure another location could be found.
 
As for the depression around the tank filler cap, some 630 tanks (like mine) have a second drain tube that drains that area of water or spilled gas. It comes out the front of the tank to the left-center near the top. If you look on yours, you probably have a stainless button-head screw plugging that hole.
 
RDTCU said:
As for the depression around the tank filler cap, some 630 tanks (like mine) have a second drain tube that drains that area of water or spilled gas. It comes out the front of the tank to the left-center near the top. If you look on yours, you probably have a stainless button-head screw plugging that hole.
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Nope I have an open and functioning drain hole. But the drain hole is on top of the filler plate. Around the entire perimeter of the filler plate there is a gap that fills with water and can't reach the drain hole. Not that much but when that water is present and you put bike on sidestand to fill up with gas, all that water comes to the left side and if you're not careful can splash into the tank. When I would wash my bike I blew out the water with compressed air but if you're out riding in the rain or bike parked in the rain then usually an air compressor is not handy.

I had planned to take some pliable rubber line (like cut o-ring or window screen retaining spline) and press it into that area removing much of the possible holding area of the water. However I bought a Safari tank before I got around to doing that ghetto fix.

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kingmoochr said:
Helmet lock - I finally found a use for all those damn cable gun locks Kommifornia makes you buy with a pistol. If you don't have the grab rails it weaves perfectly through the hole for hideaway stowage.
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Good re-use, I like it! I bought one of these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Retractable...289?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43a8ef8ce1

Not super secure but prevents somebody from the quick grab and run when parked at a gas station and you're inside using the facilities. It extends out about a yard so long enough to go through my jacket sleeve, helmet, tailbag and loop around the frame. No extra key is also nice.

I also have in transit to me a 610 helmet lock. Was about $20 from Hall's, p/n 800038211
I haven't decided yet where to permanently mount, gonna wait to see it first. I'm hoping the mount hole spacing will match to the passenger peg u-bolt bracket. I'll still need to carry a small cable though if I want to secure my jacket and luggage with it. And will require an extra key on the key chain unless I can get a locksmith to rekey for me.

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DYNOBOB said:
So that's why I keep hitting the horn...


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+1

I seem to honk at people every time I want to turn, cancel the signal, try to switch to high beam, etc. Get a lot of looks.

No one is talking about the side-stand? or is that not "little"? :)
 
You (me) get used to the sidestand. But why was the battery on my 630 not fastened (the strap was in place but the top hook was missing)? Why weren´t the steering lock bolts tightened? And why is the gearshift lever tip trashier than on a Chinese scooter? `Tis nothing I can´t put right but .... why?
 
RDTCU said:
As for the depression around the tank filler cap, some 630 tanks (like mine) have a second drain tube that drains that area of water or spilled gas. It comes out the front of the tank to the left-center near the top. If you look on yours, you probably have a stainless button-head screw plugging that hole.
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I would not recommend trying to remove that button head screw unless you are willing to face the consequences of it spinning.. watched this happen to a friend.. and some do have the drain. My girlfriends SM does which prompted my friend to fix his.. but..
 
Guoseph said:
+1

I seem to honk at people every time I want to turn, cancel the signal, try to switch to high beam, etc. Get a lot of looks.
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I finally got used to the Husky switch positions as I ride my TE630 the most. Now I am screwed up only when I ride my other bikes.

Guoseph said:
No one is talking about the side-stand? or is that not "little"? :)
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By "little things" my intent was to concentrate on design execution nuances and exclude the big added features like 6 speed, EFI, hydro clutch, Brembo brakes, etc.

I missed the sidestand on my list, definitely qualifies as a less than well thought out design. Tolerable on the street but practically useless off road on any surface other than hard pack. If you pack bike heavily with luggage for a trip then sidestand is even very sketchy on the street.

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capt42104 said:
The rear Husky(tourtech) rack only holds 6lbs!
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More than that. From the instruction sheet that came with mine, I remember it to be 5 or 5.5 kgs. so 11-12 lbs. Actually that rack will hold quite a bit more, it is the subframe that is the limiting factor. Put 20lbs on that rack and go over a double jump, rack will hold up fine but the subframe will crack in two.

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On the Husky rack. The plate is removable, which leaves you a tubular rack if you have any accessories (Givi topbox comes to mind) that attach better that way.
 
A couple new additions, I will edit original list also.

Speedometer is scary accurate, better than any other bike or car I've owned. It matches my GPS's down to a couple tenth's of a mph. This also makes both lists as the instant accuracy makes it very jumpy IMO. I'm an old analog guy I guess.

LED tailight/brakelight is super bright. A recent group ride with over 20 bikes and I found the 630 almost double the brightness over any other bike Euro or Jap. Planned to retrofit one onto my KTM until I saw the price is over $100, ouch. Don't break that light guys.

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Another pro:

Neutral light is blacked out when kill switch is activated. So if you're out on the trail and bike is in neutral but neutral light is not illuminated then check your kill switch first.

Happened to me yesterday. I thought my neutral sending unit and/or clutch safety switch was bad. Then saw that I had accidentally bumped my kill switch. Now that I know this I have to say another well thought out design.

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