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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Trail Tech Vapor 449/511

There is a wire you can splice into at the harness for the spark plug. I watched my dynotuner tap into it for the tach. I will double check wire color when I get home and let you know unless you figure it out in the meantime.
 
So does this mystery Brown wire ultimately go into the "thing" that functions as a coil surrounding the spark plug? I am so old school......
 
I think so. When my bike starts revving high my ears send a signal to my foot to shift, pretty old school too lol
 
Yeh, yeh, yeh....I wanted a speedo and an odo and temp gauge I could actually see. I figured might as well hook up the tach as it is included on the Vapor and I paid for it.

The Trail Tech display is SO MUCH easier to see the odometer and distance options versus the stock computer - we use these bikes more as dual sports / trail bikes and need the use of the odometer and trip odometer to navigate. I am happy with them. I called Trail Tech today and they say it is entirely possible to set up the 449/511 to send a signal for the tach.
 
I decided to use the vapor also, I just haven't had time to pick one up from Motosportz yet. I remember just seeing a post on this less than two weeks ago and they figured out the settings.. Once I finish up with my breather bottle, I will have more time.
 
You don't have to tap into any wire, just pull your coil out of the top of the head and wrap the tach wire around it like this. Easy :)

Option_4_Coil_Over_Plug_Stick_Wrap.jpg
 
Tinken said:
You don't have to tap into any wire, just pull your coil out of the top of the head and wrap the tach wire around it like this. Easy :)

Option_4_Coil_Over_Plug_Stick_Wrap.jpg
Click to expand...
doesn't look like the red head cover I have on my TE449 to me? Maybe I am confused here -- the above picture seems to be a different bike?
 
Oh okay; gotcha :). Btw - ran my bike in stock form 600+ miles without problems while in Colorado at altitudes of 10k-13k. I did notice a significant power loss but she never died or failed to climb lots of challenging mountains.
ColoradoTrip248.jpg
 
I noticed that too. Before I got the PCV and was having the flame outs whenever I rode it up at our cabin it ran perfectly, flame out free.
 
River-Runner said:
Yeh, yeh, yeh....I wanted a speedo and an odo and temp gauge I could actually see. I figured might as well hook up the tach as it is included on the Vapor and I paid for it.

The Trail Tech display is SO MUCH easier to see the odometer and distance options versus the stock computer - we use these bikes more as dual sports / trail bikes and need the use of the odometer and trip odometer to navigate. I am happy with them. I called Trail Tech today and they say it is entirely possible to set up the 449/511 to send a signal for the tach.
Click to expand...

Hey, did the brown wire work?
 
So, does any have the Vapor tach working on a TE449/511? I tried the coil direct connection to the blk/red wire, tried wrapping around the coil, tried a few other things and nothing has worked. The best result I got was with a direct connection to the coil lead, but the tachometer goes haywire for extended periods. I contacted Trail Tech and they're out of ideas. If anyone has a Vapor hooked up and working, please post how you did it. Thanks!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top