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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TXC310R Fails

Knock on wood I haven't had a single problem with my 250 (other than bearing replacements in the linkage). I hate to hear about these bikes disassembling themselves and the stories of gremlins are endless (it seems). I have to agree with Mike-AK, Those whining guys in Italy are the same ones who don't torque the nuts and bolts properly and use one tin of grease for 10,000 bikes. I hope the build quality goes up on these bikes with the new owners without changing the handling buy putting crappy KTM suspension on them.
 
entire machine is getting "ZipTyd" its in the race shop. will have engine reassembled and installed back into chassis and the suspension revalved for "tecate hs" style trails, meaning sharp rock hits at speed fast/open valve oil flow at high speed in the initial travel.
new FMF pipe will be on it, it all ready has the open map in the ecu.
cant wait to pilot this machine. Nice visit with Ty and Danny, thanks ZipTy Racing
 
robertaccio said:
entire machine is getting "ZipTyd" its in the race shop. will have engine reassembled and installed back into chassis and the suspension revalved for "tecate hs" style trails, meaning sharp rock hits at speed fast/open valve oil flow at high speed in the initial travel.
new FMF pipe will be on it, it all ready has the open map in the ecu.
cant wait to pilot this machine. Nice visit with Ty and Danny, thanks ZipTy Racing
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Looked over your bike today, two words for you.. pressure washer :D Saw your petite little red battery, that thing starts your bike, man, you're braver than I thought.. :eek: We took a poll today here at ZipTy over the fate your bike and it was unanimously decided that your bike was too slow. So, when you pick up your scooter, you will find quite a few extra ponies under the hood. ;)
 
Tinken said:
Looked over your bike today, two words for you.. pressure washer :D Saw your petite little red battery, that thing starts your bike, man, you're braver than I thought.. :eek: We took a poll today here at ZipTy over the fate your bike and it was unanimously decided that your bike was too slow. So, when you pick up your scooter, you will find quite a few extra ponies under the hood. ;)
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I do use the pressure washer, when I can........alot of the parts were quickly swapped back onto the TXC-R from my TE uncleaned (just wiped off at best)
The 8 cell ballistic....may go back into my 2011 TE310, I know EarthX is the ZTR choice (and I must admit I like the Made In USA part of that equation).....
To all of you at ZipTy Racing take notice it's ME thats slow not the bike!!! More HP...IDK that scares me, my word is TORQUE no need to rev the piss out of her, need climb ugly rocky loose Tecate/(and your zone)Johnson Valley H&H stuff up a gear and smoothly without all that revving and bouncing around and of course minimal physical exertion for this old bastage!!,, shes set at 13/52 thats dialed to low and slow!!
 
Those ZipTy boys know their stuff. My 511 ECU remap and suspension service was top notch and took the bike to the next level. It is making taking the 165 out every time for woods work not as EZ choice as it used to be. Like you I trust these guys and just let them do their thing. Seems like a great shop. :thumbsup:
 
oregonsage said:
About 5 years ago I had 2 new Fords fail within weeks of buying. Ive owned lots of cars and many of them Fords....but one of those failures was the CVT tranny blowing on the one I had given to my Dad (he ONLY drives Fords)...with his wife in the car, on a 100 degree day on a shadeless stretch of road north of Winnemucca...... I was more that a little pissed off. Sure they fixed it, but that does nothing for my worries about an 85 year old couple baking in the sun. The other one was my wifes Focus which died on the freeway. I managed to roll it off a ramp and establish that no fuel was flowing....and then traced that to the emergency shutoff switch which was improperly installed.

First situation was caused by specifying an inadequate transmission. Lets say engineers and managers own that one.
Second was clearly the fault of whoever did assembly.

I expressed my displeasure to everyone available, from the dealer on up ( I dont know the email address of the assembly person ;) )

I have bought other Fords since, of various vintage and design. None have failed. Ive also bought a Mercedes which had some annoying flaws, which were correctable at a price $$. A BMW Z3 that required me to spend some forum time correcting. GMC, Chevy..

Aint none of them perfect. I do some level of hassle vs value analysis regularly...some things are worth dealing with, some are not.
So far everything Ive done to both my 449/511s and 250/310s has fallen into the 'worth dealing with' category.

Your accounting my vary depending on actual pain and perception of value.
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I'm sure Management nixed engineering' s recommendation in the name of cost as frequently happens.
 
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