• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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oldmx

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have one of these for sale in my local area and have a few questions for either current or past owners.

First how reliable is the motor on this bike? If it has somewhat regular oil changes does it stand up well. Next would it be an effective bike for woods and track? Finally is the $2000.00 to $2400.00 range a fair price for an average to above average bike.

Thanks for your replies.

Mike
 
From my understanding, the '04 TC 450's were a little finicky with the carb set up. You also need to inquire about the valves. Some of the bikes had problems with pre-mature valve wear. Take it out and ride it first if you can. Make sure it starts easily and there is no bog in the low end of the throttle. If the bike is clean the price sounds fair. Hopefully some TC owners will chime in. I have an '04 TE 510 that has been bullet proof from day one besides the valve replacement.
Good luck
 
I have a 2006 TC450 that I ride on the track and desert. It is geared for the track, it is a 5 speed with a tall first gear, but isn't that bad off road when you get used to it. I have read that some woods riders will gear down the front to 14 teeth. The TC 450 is a very non-MX, MX bike, if that makes any sense! It has moderate suspension out of the crate and a very useable power band (comment about tall first gear still applies). It is flickable but not too light for deep desert terrain and speed in the flats.

The one issue I have is hot starting after a wipeout. Your year has e-start, which is sweet for those akward to kick locations and to make it easy to start when flooded- so you will not have the same problem.

OTOH, many 4 strokes are hard to start when flooded, and TT posters have given me some good info that I will try out next time. Kicking over a flooded bike is a PITA!

I haven't owned it that long, but so far it is rock solid reliable.
 
I forgot to add a couple things that I found when I bought my used TC 450:
The aluminum brackets that hold the radiators on were cracked, as was the aluminum bracket that holds the exhaust can to the frame. I only found this after I pulled all the plastics off and did a once over. I had a buddy weld the brackets, and now they are better than before.

Since your TC was prob used as a track moto, check those areas out. I suspect that repeated crashing weakens these brackets, and if you are going all out on the track stuff like that happens :D
 
I have an 09 TC450. It was a motoctross bike at first but I have Enduro'd it. Lowered the seat, modded the suspension, added Bark busters, and custom fitted Tag bars with my own design mounting brackets for bars - works great (the TC bar bracket looked too light weight and I have seen them bent which makes fitting new handle bars tough). I am dropping my gearing to 12-50 for enduro/woods riding since it is way to explosive for the woods or navigating over heavy rocky terain. With the first gear being very tall this will work nice. My radiator brackets were also cracked and I fixed them. I also have a custom made exaust connector to fit a FMF pipe. The Husky's come loaded even for a 04, I would say spent some time redoing the carb and you should be set.​
 
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