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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Your opinion?

spud1968

spud1968

Husqvarna
AA Class
Guys, fuel injected bikes stall quite a lot. Suggestions like changing sprockets, turn up the idle, efi tuner etc i agree with. However, ive not read anything about adding a flywheel weight or come to think of it are they available for the 449/511 or even the 310/250? I ride a 449 and someone on this site must know something?
 
spud1968 said:
Guys, fuel injected bikes stall quite a lot. Suggestions like changing sprockets, turn up the idle, efi tuner etc i agree with. However, ive not read anything about adding a flywheel weight or come to think of it are they available for the 449/511 or even the 310/250? I ride a 449 and someone on this site must know something?
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From what I have read, adding a flywheel weight to a 310/250 will just make the situation worse. The motor likes to rev, so adding weight is just going to make it harder to get up to the sweet ranges. I called Steahly flywheel and he acted like I was a moron for asking why he doesn't ever plan to offer anything for those motors.

In an ideal world, an injected motor should always perform better than a carb motor--but of course not factoring in reliability. On te310 getting to that ideal world includes replacing the ECU, injector, getting the gearing right, and running non-ethanol gas.
 
The yz's are motor cross bikes and have less flywheel mass than an enduro, they need the top end and to spool up fast. In the case of a 449 I would suggest gearing and perhaps a more judicial use of the clutch to get the results you seek. Only bike I would put a flywheel weight on is a retired motorcrosser that is now a trail bike.
 
benwiggin2 said:
I'm reluctant to comment for fear I may jinx myself. Straight away as to your question I can be of no help. But my 2008 te 510 is the first injected dirt bike i've owned. Coming off a string of yamaha yzs. Where the carbed yammy would stall in the rocky technical stuff here in the ca desert, my husky does not. I added a jd tuner only because of the rave reviews and not for necessity. Maybe I am just fortunate for a bike that hasn't given me any major problems and I hope it stays that way.
Good luck with your situation.
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Shhhhh, Your post got me thinking and now I'm afraid I'll be jinxed. Hmmmm, I hope you didn't jinx me! I keep hearing about flame outs, stalling, temp sensors, hard starting, etc. Had I started reading this forum before I bought my Husky I'd probably be on some other (dare I say Orange?) brand. I'm happy I didn't because I love my red machine!
 
spud1968 said:
Guys, fuel injected bikes stall quite a lot. Suggestions like changing sprockets, turn up the idle, efi tuner etc i agree with. However, ive not read anything about adding a flywheel weight or come to think of it are they available for the 449/511 or even the 310/250? I ride a 449 and someone on this site must know something?
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From all the reading I have did on 4T engines, adding FWW is not the direction to go for any fix ... EFI is usually the fix for an EFI bike ...
 
Guys, could someone explain why you can buy a flywheel weight for the ktm 350 xcf/exc. Have a look on flee-bay its claimed it helps low rpm chugging? The ktm 350 also seems to be affected by flame out problems.
 
spud1968 said:
Guys, could someone explain why you can buy a flywheel weight for the ktm 350 xcf/exc. Have a look on flee-bay its claimed it helps low rpm chugging? The ktm 350 also seems to be affected by flame out problems.
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Thats interesting ... I'd guess it is because 350 pimkins suck and thay need a band-aid...
 
ray_ray said:
Thats interesting ... I'd guess it is because 350 pimkins suck and thay need a band-aid...
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Now THAT's an opinion! Hahaha...

ray_ray, I agree with you on the fix for EFI. In troubleshooting going to the root of the problem is always more beneficial than looking to modify another area that may bring new problems into the picture. The Power commander/auto tune has transformed my bike. It doesn't stall (except in cases of rider error) and pulls hard from low rpm to redline. I originally played around with the settings as per advice from this and other sites until I got it close. When I checked the settings after trying the autotune they were almost identical but the bike ran even better.
 
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