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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Way in over my head...

huskydude59

huskydude59

Husqvarna
AA Class
Well I went out and got myself a TE511. only did 50klms on it, doing a couple of hundred this weekend, I hope. So, I decided took off the tank and take a little pick-a-boo on what l lay under and.. OMG...!!! What hell does anyone do with this if it decides to stop.. Being a carby person most of my life I fear I should maybe start taking nuclear physics 101 anda Electronics degree as well. In a dumb attempt to learn more I have read some stuff regarding oil levels, fuels pumps, AND something called a torque limiter doodad!!. Any one out there want to soften the emotional trauma I am going thru with all this.. Am I just over complicating all this. !!!
 
A LOT easier in the days when my first bikes had open drum brakes, a manual spark timer, a kick starter, a manual screw on the steering head, a carb with a button to flood the chamber, a hand lever to change gears (BMW), a rubber saddle with springs etc. All had to be inspected and tweeked after every ride and almost every house with a bike had a tin tray in the hall to catch the oil overnight. I´ve no idea what´s inside the ECU and a kind man at JD had to explain how to install the tuner but life´s definitely much easier now, just ride the bike and hope that nothing goes dramatically wrong.
 
I was in the same situation, completely intimidated by the technology. Just keep reading and it will get a lot easier.
 
organ donor said:
A LOT easier in the days when my first bikes had open drum brakes, a manual spark timer, a kick starter, a manual screw on the steering head, a carb with a button to flood the chamber, a hand lever to change gears (BMW), a rubber saddle with springs etc. All had to be inspected and tweeked after every ride and almost every house with a bike had a tin tray in the hall to catch the oil overnight. I´ve no idea what´s inside the ECU and a kind man at JD had to explain how to install the tuner but life´s definitely much easier now, just ride the bike and hope that nothing goes dramatically wrong.
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I dont think the guys that were brought up on these modern machines appreciate how complicated "simple" was.

I used to drain oil out of the old man's tractor via a drain petcock, mixed int he tank on my trusty yellow YZ and hit the trails all summer long. I NEVER thought about leaving home without a spare plug...sometimes two! I felt as if I was ALWAYS wrenching on that thing...

Flash forward 30 years and I can go to Colorado for a week with 8 buddies and we collectively will ride 5000+ miles of trail and we frequently leave the state without breaking out so much as a screwdriver!

THESE are the good ole' days!
 
Organ Donor and Bigmo are right, change the oil, check the filter, keep the battery healthy and just ride the thing and hope it doesn't break (or hope you don't break it)! Coming from carb bikes, keep in mind there is no bump starting if your battery is dead (as I understand it). No carb rebuilds, no jetting, no bogs, etc...set up FI right and you are done.
 
50Km is oil change time, next some at 160 and again at 480. Use synthetic 0W40 such as Mobil1 or equivalent, wash both prefilters and change the filter every oil change. Refill at least 946cc.
 
Having just gone through most of the mods; I'd say definitely do: 1) ECU reflash from ZipTy, 2) power up plug. Highly recommended: 1) Zip Ty breather mod (to run 1150+ cc of oil). After that depends on you and your style of riding (armor, suspension, gearing).
 
I am a new owner too. I kind of felt the same way coming from a very simple DRZ 400. The 511 seems like a space ship compared the that bike. I pulled off a side panel to check out the air filter and have a look. Was not too bad. I think there is a learning curve with this bike, but I feel I will settle in and be good to go. I have about 100 miles on mine so far. I guess I should follow Tinken's oil advice too.
 
Daveb511 said:
The 511 seems like a space ship compared the that bike.
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It is in a good way

Daveb511 said:
I think there is a learning curve with this bike, but I feel I will settle in and be good to go.
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I bought one of the first ones in the US in 2011. Been a great bike and not hard to maintain / work on. Some funky stuff some EZ stuff. The air filter stays clean 3x longer than most so figure you have to deal with it 3x less and all of a sudden the 2 extra minutes it takes to get to seems great. Oil changes are EZ with the side access drain etc. CS sprockets require pulling the swingarm which is actually amazingly EZ and lets you grease the swing arm bearings which I recomend you do right now and then check every 4-6 months as it is stupid EZ to do so unlike conventional swing arm bearings.

Daveb511 said:
I guess I should follow Tinken's oil advice too.
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:cheers:
 
2wheeler said:
LOL I feeeel the pain. Got a sweet little 70's 2 stroke dirt bike. And now a 310. :eek:
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Yes, but your 310R is pretty simple to power up. Just slide out the cat, trim the intake horn, remap to leo-vince and you're good to go. You can add power plug and slip on silencer too. Oil is Mobil1 0W40 and Stainless steel oil filter helps a ton to deliver more oil to the rod bearing and head on that engine. Pretty close to 40hp after that and a fun dependable ride.
 
40 hp! I just got back most of the 17.5 after new rings and gaskets on the 2 stroke. This 310 only outweighs it by about 30lbs. This thing is going to feel like a rocket ship!
 
My mechanical skill is not great. I do all the normal maintenance but stuff like valve clearance I'm sure I could do but I'm having it done by a
pro right now. I found this little shop in town and the guy has a Dyno machine and he does everything. It's just him and his wife.
I initially just wanted to find out about getting my 511 Dyno tested but after talking to him for a while I could tell he was pretty smart so I'm
getting a few things done. A full Dyno Tune , Valve check and the forks serviced. New oil , seals, dust seals, and cleans it all up inside.
My 511 has 4000 miles now exactly and I'd never done a valve check. Well it turns out the valve were completely in spec. Amazing. I should get it
back tomorrow or Fri. I'm curious to see how she performed on the dyno. I'll post the results when I get it back.
 
I don't know. Once I dialed the jetting in on my old 2 smoker 17 years ago, I don't think I've ever fouled a plug since. I can still ride her hard and put her away wet for months and she likes it, only to want to do it again;) That Italian Beech.....I've got to talk to her practically everyday or else she'll find an excuse not to ride:eek:
 
oregonsage said:
No wonder yer skeered...If you got the tank off then you are in way deep...
I hope you just took off the seat :thumbsup: or maybe the side covers.
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Ooops.. I really meant under the seat air box thingy where my air filter cartridge is. I had taken of the rear guard section to remove the number plate holder. I was gob smacked by the complexity of what lied under there, looked very similar to what lies under car bonnets today. Its all electronics, relays, sensor. I am not sure what it is like in the US but here in OZ I don't think we are hampered so much by the EPA gear
 
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