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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE410E valve problems

R

rabbitstu

Husqvarna
C Class
Bought a 1999 TE410E (6,600km on clock) last summer and come autumn thought I'd better do a full service. Adjusted valves to the factory 0.05 (they all needed closing up a little), but when it came to start up it turns over easily but never quite manages to spark into life.
I suspect I'm not getting compression as the starter has little trouble turning over the engine (previously the battery used to die from exhaustion after turning over a few times). I re-checked the clearances but seemed fine (this is a pain to do as I see no way of checking valves without dismantling the damn cooling system each time). Before you tell me I'm overtightning I am very careful with this. The valves should be sealing fine and I'm just wondering if the auto decompressor may be at fault here. I'm thinking of maybe just opening up the exhaust valve clearance a bit to see what happens (but reluctant as I'm fed up with draining the cooling system etc.). Anybody else have this problem? I must also mention that the bike has lain dormant for 4 months, sparking fine (carbs shouldn't be causing a prob should they?).
Any suggestions welcome.
 
Can you get a compression tester? Then you'll know if the valves are open a little. If it's 4 month old gas it could be a problem. Won't hurt to drain it and get new but i'd check the compression first. disconnect the auto compression release and try to kick it after easing past TDC.:thumbsup:
 
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