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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'10 TE250 can I reuse the head gasket?

R

R_Little

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Taking the head off to check the valves and helicoil a cam cap bolt.

Can I reuse the head gasket?

The manual shows 3 thickness gaskets available to be used based on piston height.

Can I identify the one in there?
 
Do it right, or risk doing it over. Most head gaskets are designed to "squish" and seat at the specified torque but I haven't torn into an Xlite yet. That said, most head gaskets can handle a retorque or two, but you're taking a big chance on it leaking.

I for one would use a new head gasket, but in any case you should use the shop manual as a guide. The table specifies the proper gasket thickness, which you should be able to measure with a micrometer on your existing gasket.
 
MontyCarlo said:
Do it right, or risk doing it over. Most head gaskets are designed to "squish" and seat at the specified torque but I haven't torn into an Xlite yet. That said, most head gaskets can handle a retorque or two, but you're taking a big chance on it leaking.

I for one would use a new head gasket, but in any case you should use the shop manual as a guide. The table specifies the proper gasket thickness, which you should be able to measure with a micrometer on your existing gasket.
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I second that.
 
Use a tap handle to turn the drill bit and the tap. Use a vacuum cleaner to clean up the bits.

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MontyCarlo said:
Do it right, or risk doing it over. Most head gaskets are designed to "squish" and seat at the specified torque but I haven't torn into an Xlite yet. That said, most head gaskets can handle a retorque or two, but you're taking a big chance on it leaking.

I for one would use a new head gasket, but in any case you should use the shop manual as a guide. The table specifies the proper gasket thickness, which you should be able to measure with a micrometer on your existing gasket.
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I don't know if I can measure the gasket after it squishes.

I'll check the piston to head clearance as per the manual.

Thanks.
 
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