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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2005 Smr 450 No Start

Z

Zakpelliott

Husqvarna
Hey guys, sorry in advance for the long post. I've owned an SMR 450 for probably 3 years and have never rode it. Just began working on it last year. Turns out valves were tight. Brought the engine to a local shop and they disassembled, replaced, and reassembled the engine. Put a new starter and tuned carb on it from halls and it started hard but I got it going eventually, for about 10 minutes. The starter broke in an unusual way. It stopped the engine from turning? Generally if starter breaks, in my experience, you don't know until you try to start the thing again. Just got the new starter on and it's stopping at every compression cycle. If I hold the compression release it turns and turns. I just checked the valves and they're pretty consistently .05mm over spec. Ordering new shim's Monday. My questions are what would cause a starter to break in that way and could my timing be off? Will attach a picture of the engine at tdc. It looks like the timing marks on the cam line up with the single dimple mark on the timing gear and not the double. Is that correct? Again I apologize for the long post but I'm getting frustrated nearly to a point of selling a nonrunning bike and moving on. -Zak
 

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If the cam chain is not completely destroyed, you have the right timing. I have never even seen a 450 live but engines are engines. If it turns smooth without comp you have at least not a mecanical failure. Sounds like the starter motor doesnt have enough power? If it turns easy unloaded, I cant see another issue. BUT Im not 100% sure.
Ola
 
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