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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

08 te450 valve check

Wellsy

Wellsy

Husqvarna
B Class
Just did my first valve check since I sent my suspension off to be set up. The bike is just sitting there every day so I'm doing what I can on it. The bike only has 38 miles on it (08 te450) and the intake was fine at .005 but the exhaust was very tight, I couldn't even get my .0015 to go in there. :eek: Have I checked it too soon or does this thing need to be fixed?
By the way this is a great site and a lot of fun to be on.
 
Sounds like my 2006 TE250, could not get a feeler gauge in on a couple. The valves on mine do not move at all and I've adjusted them to proper spec.
 
So, I'll just need to put a smaller shim in there then, right? Watched the video a ton of times, that's what gave me the inspiration to do it. Sure makes it look easy. Just ordered the shim kit tonight from motosportz.
 
Yep, need thinner shim to get some clearance in there. Make sure you're checking between shim and rocker, not rocker and cam. Good that you've checked this soon.
 
ioneater;23803 said:
Yep, need thinner shim to get some clearance in there. Make sure you're checking between shim and rocker, not rocker and cam. Good that you've checked this soon.
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Thanks!

You are correct - the video is wrong as to where to check.
 
Yep, I checked between the shim and the rocker. Hey Coffee, I bet you'll never make that mistake again! Seems like you have heard a little about that mishap...
 
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