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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

450TE Clutch Re-fit help please :-(

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Husqvarna
C Class
I set out this morning to add a kickstart to my bike 2003 model elec start only, with the help of some used parts ive collected recently from a T.C model. I stripped the clutch/basket out and then discovered that the main engine case whilst looking similar must be slightly bigger around the kickstart housing to house the gear and it can't be done so I bolted the clutch back together tried the lever a couple of times didn't feel right so I stripped the clutch off again hoping to see a schoolboy error somewhere but it looked all o.k. Refitted the clutch tried the lever, felt stiff then lost all pressure. Noticed some fluid leaking down the clutch hose obviously split under force so I stripped the slave cylinder off to have a proper look and found a mangled O ring and the circlip busted out of the slave and sitting inside the engine case including bits of the metal lip from the slave cyl that was holding it in. So I'm now into a new clutch hose and slave cylinder but before I go and break the new ones I can't figure what ive done wrong with the clutch can anybody advise me please hopefully from the pictures?20131231_141522.jpg 20131231_141615.jpg
 

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Hi not that I recall certainly didn't operate it once the slave was off.. although I'm thinking I might have over tightened the clutch bolts as I pinched them back up by hand without paying any regard to the torque setting and then operated the clutch lever see if it was all operating o.k which it kind of was before breaking. If I'd overtightened them already then the resistance might have been too great and something had to give, I've realised since its only a low torque on the bolts which I didn't pay much attention to when I undid them. I'm trying to find the torque settings now but my Manual only gives the setting for the centre nut 75nm.

Searched on the subject and its been said its a job so simple that people have even let their kids do it... :doh:

Regards AL
 
Hi do you mean the ball in the centre of the slave piston? if so yeah that was in and I can see it in the picture of the damaged slave cylinder so Im o.k on that side BUT I think you guys are right thinking back I might have tried the lever once with only a few of the clutch bolts in quite loose to see if the rod was operating correctly and this unknown to me was probably enough free play to allow the piston to smash the snap ring out :( still struggling to find a torque setting for the clutch bolts each manual I've found on the net tells you to torque them but then only gives the centre bolt setting. I've ordered a new clutch hose and managed to peen over the end of the slave housing just enough to hold the snap ring with some of the Lip that was remaining, need a new O ring but it might just hold enough to test I haven't got a problem with the clutch plates etc once torqued correctly. I'm looking at an Oberon replacement slave cylinder about £100 in the U.K so I'll be careful not to blow that apart :cry: Thanks for the suggestions and Happy New Year!
 
Zip Ty makes a upgraded cylinder, 7602 makes a upgraded piston and Uptite has a better O (X) ring.
There should be a ball bearing on the clutch side of the pushrod.
 
cuvator said:
Zip Ty makes a upgraded cylinder, 7602 makes a upgraded piston and Uptite has a better O (X) ring.
There should be a ball bearing on the clutch side of the pushrod.
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Looks like I'm a ball short then didn't notice one when I took it apart but thats not to say it hasn't rolled out on the garage floor somewhere I'll go search. So I should have one between these 2 which figures
 

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