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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

WARNING Husky versus Da' MOUSE- oh! its on now meces!

HUSKYnXJnWI

HUSKYnXJnWI

Husqvarna
AA Class
So I have been repacking my exhaust- posted here

After installation of my repacked exhaust I went to start my bike- turns over turns over and then it wouldn't turn over with the starter- CLICK at remote starter relay... HMMMM? Kick starter won't mover by hand- event with decomp.... UH OHHHHH? WTF?

Dread overwhelms me but I start to think- it ran great GREAT! 2 weeks ago? what could be wrong-
1-starter is engaged and seized?
2-motor is seized? shouldn't have a reason?

SO I plan to start with the starter- to get to it I have to take off my exhaust again- along with the mid-pipe- Well I get that far and.........................?????????????????????

out of the corner of my eye I see this...
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what the????? my bike is doing what in its off time?

Closer
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MICE what the hell were you thinking?????? killing my husky? now ahh gost ta cutcha

OK so NOW I know why it did not start- BUT WHY IS IT NOT TURNING OVER? Hydroloc? piece of corn jamming piston,valve, now bent/broken valve....?

I took off the headpipe- I could feel chunks of birdseed and corn on top of the valve- I vacuumed and used compressed air to clear it- I rocked the bike back and forth in gear while the vacuum was connected directly to the head (perfect fit). Ok now its spinning- I took the valve cover off and verified that the valves are lifting and closing= not stuck. Spun the motor by had quite a few times- put everything back together- took a bit for initial start which was strange- but it finally ran fine-

So this is a WARNING- do not leave your exhaust open- have a spark arrestor or a exhaust plug in your exhaust- my exhaust was only open for a week- I guess it MICE HARVESTING AND GATHERING FOR WINTER-

I have something else for them to HARVEST.... DECON****************************************!! Stock up MECES- its good with ketchup!

I thought about buying a 5 lb block of cheese and putting it in the middle of my garage floor- sit up in my rafters with my 45 loaded. But I am calming down a little.

I'll make mincemeat outa that mouse, I hates them meces to pieces- now I know why them cartoon cats hated mice so much- they messed with their Husky!:censored:

anyone know where I can get DECON decals???
 
This same thing happened to one of my customers and his helpful wife thought that she could help out by washing out the airbox and back flushing the Te 450 exhaust,very expensive clean up.She was just trying to help.
 
You can find all kind of strange things gettin' into motors.Being in Florida we have a lot of lizards and for some reason they loved hanging around my shop.On one occasion before quitting time I had left the pipe off a engine that was just rebuilt...the next day after buttoning everything up and getting ready to fire it up..nothing.Now this motor was running but needed top end service. Ipulled the plug to double check the new plug gap and found bits and pieces of lizard guts jammed into the plug core! I guess the poor critter was lookin for a safe place to sleep for the night.Crazy stuff does happen!

Guscycle
 
:lol: Glad your bikes ok! Yes, decon is my friend. It just sucks when your heat vents start to stink like rotten mouse flesh in your wifes car!:banghead:
 
I have 1/2 dozen Victor glue traps in my garage, in quiet dark locations up against a wall.
http://www.victorpest.com/store/rodent-control/m180c
Mice, spiders & bugs all get sorted out.
I change 'em 3 or 4 times a year, as they tend to fill up with little beetles & spiders.
Tree-huggers will whine that these are inhumane to the mice, if that bothers ya (doesn't me)
Safe for kids & pets seems more important to me.
 
:eek:they also love the airbox. I've had them nest in everything from the top of the intake manifold on my truck which is a daily driver, to the air cleaner on the roto-tiller, battery and fuse boxes,electrical disconnects,circuit breaker boxes, they love to chew up the wires, it seems they will get into anyplace they can when the temps start dropping. I remember one of the funniest things I ever saw was a friend pull his bike out of the shed and start it to let it warm up and about 20 seconds later the whole family of mice started jumping off the idling bike and his dog started chasing and eating them.When we looked at the airfilter they had made a mouse condo out of it.Oh and squirrels are no better,they have a taste for the coil wires for some reason.I think it's best to plug the exhaust and try to make sure the air box air filter area is clear before you try to fire them up after sitting for "a while". Thanks for the reminder of what's likely to happen with the approach of colder weather here in the states.:D
 
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