Tomcycles New 2011 and now 2013 Husqvarna TE 310

[ScottM604]

It came to be that I got to ride Tom's te310 on Sunday for the full day. The bike is amazing, I own a drz 400 and the husky is head and tails above it in all aspects. It does ride a little different in the slow tight stuff, just a bit more rpm and a little more clutching, but if I would ride a little faster I would not have to do that. And the bike is more than capable of going fast in the tight stuff . I see a te310 in my near future.

 

[tomcycle]

4500 KM Update October 2011

4500 KM Update October 2011

October 2011 4500km Update

Still riding the Husky almost every weekend sometimes all weekend, 98% off road and single track, little to report on other than the usual stuff like oil changes and new tires. The bike is running like a top and burning no oil between changes, transmission is shifting light and smooth. Had to buy a new saw as the first one has too many broken teeth. Unlike the chain, I am still runing the stock chain and front sproket with a 47 on the rear, going to istall the 50 for the winter trail riding.

Here is a picture of the Kick Starter (only used once to see if it worked)



The Husky has a clip to hold in the changeable exhaust insert this clip now rattles and is the loudest thing you hear at an idle




Sidestand, still working fine, but the bolt is showing some signs of stress



Licence Plate and holder
This is the longest time I have had one plate number, but it to is showing signs of possible failure


here you will notice that the radiator guard is missing, I hit a tree, pretty hard too my left arm still is a bit stiff.

 

[drbike]

Thanks for the ongoing report Tom!

 

[tomcycle]

October 22 2011

October 22 2011

Got some good new and some bad news

The good news

The tree I hit knocked a few pieces of plastic off, went back on the Nubee ride and found them there on the ground. Now they are back on the bike

The bad new

Something is going on with the electrical, I thought the bike was going to leave me stranded at Church (the mountain) but that was not to be.

I have been to the Cafe Husky http://www.cafehusky.com site and the talk there is that it could be a temprature sensor

The symtoms
After riding the bike and turning off with the key
Turn bike back on, press start button engine turns over, all lights turn on but no start
We noticed that the fuel pump did not prime nor did we here the relay for the fuel pump click, this is normaly happens
Seems if I wait 10-15 mins then turn on the bike relay clicks and pump primes and bike starts as usual.

Today while doing oil change I though its time to dig in a little further. Didnt find anything obviously wrong. Could not replicate the problem.

So What To Do

Go Riding Again

The sensor thing seems to make sense to me, I just need to find a wiring diagram and start trouble shooting, I know where the relay and sensor, so I expect it wont be long to find the problem.

I will be posting on Cafe Husky as well, and keep everyone informed to what I find

Tom

 

[old trials guy]

if you have access to the computer diagnostic you should be able to read the fault code and test all the sensors before you get stranded . check connector to temperature sensor on engine too.

otg

 

[franhoser]

did you check your float level?

 

[ghost]

This may be obvious but did you check the electrical connections to the fuel pump inside the gas tank. Make sure that are actually secure (hard to pull apart), there is a tab on the female end that I pushed in and when you connect the male to the female there will be a slight click noise. Alos, not sure if you did this mod already but make sure the fuel pump is secure to the fuel holder, I used a 1" steel hose clamp and got rid of the plastic zip ties.

 

[tomcycle]

Im not sure about the fuel pump fuel holder mod, I did try and remove the fuel pump but chickened out when it had a couple of line going deep into the black tank and it did not seem like it wanted to come apart, so I pushed it all back in.

I did check all connections from front to back and the all where secure, I opened and checked and reconnected.

Rode the bike all day yesterday October 23 and could not replicate the problem, so the bike is running good and I guess I will have to hope that the problem has fixed itself (like thats a good solution?)

Tom

 

[cactusreid]

well on the upside,i think you just may have made up your mind as to which bike your NOT taking to baja this winter. fuel injection on car's -good thing. fuel injection on dirtbikes-????????????????

 

[mekanik]

I'm loving my Husky TE630 fuel injection, well tuned with a JD tuner no carbs to adjust all the time!
And here I thought this thread was dead!

 

[volcon]

A total stab in the dark but. Have you checked for water or dirt in the fuel system? It could be messing with a sender/float/switch/valve.

 

[tomcycle]

The problem did not act like dirt

Two important symtoms that I noticed when the bike would not start

Turned key on all light came on
1 no click from fuel pump relay
2 fuel pump did not turn on

then of course the bike would not start
something I noticed later was the JD tuner flashes on start up when the key is turned on, this did not happen either so I am pretty sure im looking for a electrical problem.

After unpluging and checking all suspect electrical connections and finding nothing, the bike has run fine for the last two rides. I cant seem to replicate the problem.

So if it ant broke Im not going to fix it

TT

 

[cactusreid]

Probably just a loose nut-behind the bar's?

 

[tomcycle]

February 2013 Update

February 2013 Update

February 2013

I know its been a while since my last post. Was going to sell the 310 got it all cleaned up and even had a buyer, then the deal fell thru and the bike sat in the garage for a couple of months while I rode the TXC 450. Then the 450 needed an oil change and I thought I would take the TE 310 out for just one more ride before I sold it. That was September 2012 and I have been riding the 310 pretty steady since then.

180 hours 6200 kms and its time to get the bike ready for Moab 2013, after I get back from Moab I will think again about selling the bike.

The electrical problem has not shown up again, so I guess its OK

Did another check on the valves, still in spec

Everything seems to be working well

I do have to do some more regular stuff like

• New Front tire Mitas C17 www.MX1canada.com
• New Rear tire Mitas EF-07 Majestic Enduro www.MX1canada.com
• New Fatty Tubes www.MX1canada.com
• New Front wheel bearing kit http://www.motosportz.com/
• New Rear wheel bearing kit http://www.motosportz.com/
• New SDG Hand-grips (too much of the death grip)
• Another Oil Change with Maxima ultra synthetic
• Repack the rear suspension
• Clean Air Filter No-Toil

 

[tomcycle]

Sad news to report

July 2014 the Husky 310 had to be towed back to camp. For no apparent reason it just stopped running. Was riding up on the top of the Windy Knob Loop along the trail and it just stopped running, no noise or bang or anything. Hit the starter and knew right away something had come apart in the engine.

Have talked to some Husky owners and seems that the woodruff key on the crank has been a weak point, so I will check that first.

 

[kenf]

Hey Tom did you ever get your 310 running again? I talked to you briefly at the loose screw and it sounded like it was still sitting. About a day after that I started to have starter problems on mine. Ran fine on Friday when we did the C+, then Saturday morning it barely started when we headed out on the A and the estart hasn't worked well ever since. 15 minutes in I stalled wrestling it over a log and it only kinda half turned over but didn't fire. Kickstart worked fine, sounded like a weak battery. I spent the rest of the day kicking it over (which fortunately is very easy even when really hot -- must have kicked it over 50 times that day). A couple of times I forgot and hit the start button, same thing every time, weak half-hearted attempt to turn the engine but not enough to fire it. I thought that was odd, as it should have been charging while riding, but whatever. Checked it when I got home and it looked like just a battery gone bad that wasn't holding a charge. New battery yesterday, same symptoms. Bike will kick or bump start with no effort, whether stone cold or smoking hot. But the estart just doesn't turn the engine over very fast, even when being jumped from a wall-powered charger/booster pack.

I did some checking on the forums, and in addition to the woodruff key, it seems like the starter gear tends to wear badly and start to bind which puts too much load on the starter motor. I think they were referring to the bevel gear on the end of the worm gear shaft but don't really have time to pull it apart myself and start looking. As long as it runs easily on the kickstart, I will just have to give up on the estart for a while.

Anyhow, and advice (other than "trade it for orange") would be welcome!

 

[tomcycle]

NOPE

Been riding the TXC and no time to open the cover. will probably get on this second week of sept.

Sounds more like a bad electrical connection, would check those and the starter-motor before opening up the engine, use a cable direct from battery to starter motor and see if it turns over easy, if not pull the starter and check to make sure the brushes and wiring is all good and the gear has not warn unusually.

T

 

[kenf]

Thanks Tom. Good tip on bypassing all wiring and relays and going directly to the starter, will try that tonight.

Do you know how easy/hard it is to get the starter motor off on these bikes? I have the shop manual, but to date I've found that almost everything it harder to get at than it looks like in the pictures...

 

[tomcycle]

here we are into October, just did not have time to check out why the engine stopped running, I thought it was time and checked the woodruff key, all that was ok

So it was time to dig in a little further, did a valve check and found one of the clearances was about 1/4 Inch.......mmmmmmm thats not a good sign of things to come.

Removed the cam caps and shaft and found the shim bucket stuck in the head? I am sure this must be an engineering foopah on Huskys part, surely can't have anything to do with keeping my rev limiter maintenance?

Anyhow its of to Bill at 5th Gear, I break it he fixes it...............repeat

Here you can see the exhaust shim bucket that will not come out, valve moves but sticks in the open position

here you can see the valve stuck in the open position

does not appear to be any damage to the cam or piston

 

[tomcycle]

When things just work as they were intended!

When things just work as they were intended!

Feb 2016

Its been a while, October 2014 to be exact. While the bike found its way to 5th Gear, Bill found that pretty much everything in the engine was warn beyond simple repair. In fact Bill said of all the engine rebuilds he has done, this engine virtually had no salvageable parts, everything was warn out. So a complete rebuild was in order. Now the crappy part, Husky gets sold to KTM and the parts availability is zero. Lucky for me I have the other TXC Husky so I am getting lots of riding in.

Now I get really lucky, International Motosports gives me a call while I am riding at Tamihi, (I generally dont even have my phone with me when riding) Anyhow they have a couple of new 2013 TE 310s and they wanted to know if I was interested, the price was too good to pass up so I bought another 310.

So for the past months I have been riding my new 310 while 5th Gear is waiting for parts.

In the meantime KTM sorts out the parts flow and gets the ol 310 assembled and back in my hands. I take the bike out for a couple of rides but the new 310 sure is nice. No time to diddle with the old 310 so it goes into the garage to wait for me to have some time.

The old 310 has a list of to do's, general maintenance stuff and some new tires will be needed but I do have one big problem,

I keep getting a big FAIL on the digital dash