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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Weird noise

Can't really tell what that is ... Best guess is chain slap ... Mine beats up against my frame just behind the FS ...
 
I thought I had some chain slap, turns out, it was pre-detonation, engine knock.

Get the bike in a clear area, street or clearing, with a smooth surface, accelerate thru the gears, and lug the engine a little, listen for your sound.
 
That's what I initially thought but I think it's coming from the front. It's more of a rubbing noise - maybe the front brake hose rubbing on the guide? I don't know. It's pretty loud though. Annoying.
 
OlderHuskyRider said:
I thought I had some chain slap, turns out, it was pre-detonation, engine knock.

Get the bike in a clear area, street or clearing, with a smooth surface, accelerate thru the gears, and lug the engine a little, listen for your sound.
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I did that today. All seemed fine on the road. Clearly it's when I'm in the bumps. Very strange though.
 
ray_ray said:
Maybe the fork protectors are rubbing the fork tubes ...?
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Mine are very loud and annoying, I thought it was the Honda fork guards I put on-they definitely rub bad, I use a couple of big zip ties around the fork leg so the plastic doesn't rub into the fork but it doesn't keep them quiet through the bumps.
 
sharpie1 said:
Mine are very loud and annoying, I thought it was the Honda fork guards I put on-they definitely rub bad, I use a couple of big zip ties around the fork leg so the plastic doesn't rub into the fork but it doesn't keep them quiet through the bumps.
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Interesting. This sound seemed to develop in the last ride or two. I can't believe how loud it is. Super annoying.
Thanks for the info.
 
Wow...that's loud, sounds pretty metallic.

- loose skid plate?
- internals of the silencer came apart inside?
- loose brake disc?
- ???

As you run the bike thru your mind a piece at a time...not sure.

Let us know what you find...before it breaks!
 
Yeah the chain isnt rubbing just behind the counter sprocket? Either on the LH frame or the swingarm pivot area?
 
East Longmeadow said:
I just ran through every nut and bolt. Everything was good. I'm at a loss.
Maybe the springs inside the fork tubes rubbing?
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It is a pretty odd sound ...Skid plate does sound like a good guess ... I get a small sound from the muffler guard on my header from time to time ....

For the springs, you might could start with just getting the front end off the ground and shaking the fork tubes by hand and see if you can get any slack or sounds and move on to removing a tube and seeing it it rattles or anything ...
 
Thats what the floating rear rotor sounds like on my husbands bike (2009 txc 450), but my xlite doesnt have a floater so I assume yours doesnt either. Seems brake or suspension related from the video.
 
Hey all,
Thanks for the thoughts and input. I'm about 95% sure that it's my new o-ring chain rubbing on my new BRP chain guide. Also, I went to a larger 52 tooth sprocket. It seems that with all of this I have some rubbing going on. I think when the chain is bouncing through the bumps it rubs a bit more on the guide making the noise. Maybe it will get better as everything wears in.
Thanks again!
 
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