• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 te 450.

2wheels

2wheels

Husqvarna
B Class
bought the bike blind. not really had this sort of bike before so got a few issues. namely oil leaks firm just about everywhere on the engine. not bad just slight weeps. I have just replaced the valve cover bolt gaskets but fear that inequality of them is stripped as it doesn't seem to want to tighten. is a helicoil ok to use here? if so what size? the Speedo doesn't work at all but apart from that she's sweet. does anyone have a wiring diagram/ owners manual fir these? would be handy fir torque settings etc. many thanks
 
congrats on your new husky. These engines are notorious for being weepy like you mentioned. mostly around the area where the two center cases are joined. Not a big deal, but yes it is annoying. The top valve cover bolts do strip out fairly easy, and it is ok helicoil them. I believe the size is M6 x 1.0
 
It sounds like the bike has at least fair use for age.
I would go over the swing arm, steering head and wheel bearings
Change the oil and filter replace or clean the air filter
flush the radiator and check for loose fasteners, bults, wires etc and give it a great wd 40 bath.
 
checked all bearings and I think the swingarm bearings have been done recently. certainly plenty of grease around there. it nice to hear the weepy engine is common. I was thinking of a full engine strip! I'm gonna change the oil and filter today give it 100 miles then do it again along with the gaskets. my only concern with the helicoil in the valve cover thread is getting swarf everywhere when drilling it out :-/.

many thanks for your help. what an excellent forum this is.
 
how often do you guys do your oil and filter when using quality oils. I think 300 mikes is a little excessive embarrassingly the majority of my riding will be on road. and I've just bought a bigger front sprocket to lower the revs a touch
 
The part the valve cover bolts goes into holds the cam bearing, take it out to drill it. Make sure you only use the stock shoulder bolts in the valve cover, if the threads are any longer you will crack a cam bearing.

Two oil weep areas are the bolts that hold the water pump cover on and the starter bolts, all these are threaded all the way into the case and oil will weep past the threads. If you remove one at a time and clean the threads and apply a small bit of hi temp RTV/silicone and put them back in it should slow the seepage. Oil weeping at the valve cover you'll just have to deal with, both of my Huskies have a slight weep there.
 
Helicoil kits are great and easy to use. I have used a hand drill and would probably do press next time since I had the engine out anyway. Hand drill worked fine, but struggled to get the hole deep enough. I think the bolts are more secure now after the procedure. My 2004 likes to weep on places too. No big deal though. Change oil every 15 hours over here. Happy trails.
 
cheers for the help. been out today to the motocross Track. bike is awesome! however it's leaking oil quite badly. I swapped out the oil and filter yesterday. I can't locate the oil leak at all. I'm gonna jet wash it tomorrow and see what is what. also thereaappears road be oil in the coolant?
 
dirty bike
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right chaps. she kept leaving her mark when she was parked up but because of the mud/ sump guard I couldn't locate the leak. just jet washed it and it's coming from here
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omitted hoping someone will tell me it's just a crush washer or something or worst case scenario the big gasket? what we saying?
 
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