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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2011 TE449 valve questions

M

Marc Noel

Husqvarna
AA Class
Greetings:

I am coming up to my first valve clearance check. I have the workshop manual in PDF format, but I can't interpret the clearance info. It reads exactly as follows:

Intakes 0,71...15,65 in
(0,05...0,10 mm)

Exhausts 3,56...4,27 in
(0,25...0,30 mm)

I spoke with the BMW dealership here, and he said the metric values are
.05, .10, .25, and .30 mm. That MAY be, but I am puzzled as to the inch values, as they don't appear to convert correctly. How does the 0,71 value relate to the 0,05 value, for example? Also note the 15,65 figure is higher than the 4,27, but the corresponding metric values are in reverse magnitude order. I would appreciate help trying to decipher this information.

Also, are there telltale performance signs or sounds that indicate clearances are out? Another thread had a comment stating valves weren't being checked because they weren't noisy.

Marc
 
I'm about to check mine, but only because I'm adding the ZipTy breather mod. I'm at 1200 mi and I know that quite a few folks here have closer to 5000 without any adjustments needed. I do agree that the manual is a little confusing. I went ahead and bought a metric feeler gauge set. $3.00 at harbor freight. I understand that you almost need to ruin the feelers to get them in the right spot.
 
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