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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2004 tc 450 opinions

Yellowfin

Yellowfin

Husqvarna
A Class
Thinking of picking up a used 2004 tc 450, Any know issues I should look for? Also are the plastics compatible with any of the red years? 2007?
 
The plastics are not compatible with the newer bikes unless you change the seat and tank. The 2000-2004 2 strokes shared the same plastics. The valves on the 2004 models were poor but may have been changed by now. The mikuni carb made the bike slow starting unless it was addressed.
 
I used to have one a long time ago. Some had valves that moved a lot and some did not. Hopefully by this time all of that has been dealt with. Pretty easy to work on. My carb worked OK at 1500 ft elevation but was not as smooth as it could be however I used it as a trail bike. The e-start worked well.
 
Love my 2004! I did change the valves to stainless. I also have the red plastics which did require a tank change. The previous owner also switched the carb to a kiehn. Parts are easy to find and the bike does not need much. Really bomber, just wear items are needed.
 
vtskier said:
Love my 2004! I did change the valves to stainless. I also have the red plastics which did require a tank change. The previous owner also switched the carb to a kiehn. Parts are easy to find and the bike does not need much. Really bomber, just wear items are needed.
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I agree the changes that were made to your bike make it a great bike ! That is what I would do if I had a 2004 model.
 
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