• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Any Demand for 2004 TE parts?

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dirtrider0129

Husqvarna
AA Class
Like the title says, is there any demand for 2004 TE 250 parts? My TE took a dump on me today (something in the bottom end let go, but I haven't taken it apart to find out what) and I'm not sure I want to fork over the money for a for a full rebuild. I'm contemplating parting the bike out. Just looking to see if there is any interest, so my efforts in parting it out wont go in vein. Please let me know.
 
Usually forks, wheels and plastic / seat go quick, the rest is hard to get rid of unless there are some good motor parts.
 
I’ve cooled off over night (I was pretty pissed off at myself for not recognizing the sound of a bad bottom end earlier) and decided to do a partial teardown of the bike. if the head, piston, and cylinder are still ok, ill spend the money to do a full bottom end rebuild. Sounds to me its not really worth the time and effort to part out the bike.
 
dirtrider0129 said:
I’ve cooled off over night (I was pretty pissed off at myself for not recognizing the sound of a bad bottom end earlier) and decided to do a partial teardown of the bike. if the head, piston, and cylinder are still ok, ill spend the money to do a full bottom end rebuild. Sounds to me its not really worth the time and effort to part out the bike.
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I think you are on the right path. If you can pull the motor down yourself and get the crank out it is not the much $$$ to have the rod kit and installed.
 
In my admittedly non-expert opinion, these bikes are pretty simple to work on.

There's spare parts floating about, but you have to look for em.

Good luck and post pics (so when mine goes south, I have something to look at while *I'm* re-building my bottom end!)

M
 
Development! I pulled the valve cover off and found the rocker retainer on the intake side sitting in the space between the intake and exhaust valves, both rockers sitting on top of one another, one valve shim missing (found one by the retainer), one intake valve spring retainer popped out of place, a scuffed rocker, but the best part is that the engine still turn over freely and there was no metal shavings in the oil or in both filters! Here is what I think happened, the valve spring retainer popped out causing some weird load on the rocker, this caused the retainer to pop out letting the rockers move inward towards each other. one of the valve shims came out and worked its way to the lower cam gear, jamming it causing the engine to stop abruptly.

edit: I guess it would also be helpful to add that when I thought the bottom end let go, was the first time it was started since I had some head work done, specifically replace valve seals... This could get interesting...
 
What does a bottom end sound like that is about to let go? And what is the usual rebuild cost of a bottom end?
 
dirtrider0129 said:
Development! I pulled the valve cover off and found the rocker retainer on the intake side sitting in the space between the intake and exhaust valves, both rockers sitting on top of one another, one valve shim missing (found one by the retainer), one intake valve spring retainer popped out of place, a scuffed rocker, but the best part is that the engine still turn over freely and there was no metal shavings in the oil or in both filters! Here is what I think happened, the valve spring retainer popped out causing some weird load on the rocker, this caused the retainer to pop out letting the rockers move inward towards each other. one of the valve shims came out and worked its way to the lower cam gear, jamming it causing the engine to stop abruptly.

edit: I guess it would also be helpful to add that when I thought the bottom end let go, was the first time it was started since I had some head work done, specifically replace valve seals... This could get interesting...
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Good news, you might get away EZ on this one. :thumbsup:
 
GLantern said:
What does a bottom end sound like that is about to let go? And what is the usual rebuild cost of a bottom end?
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The way its been described to me by someone who's been unfortunate enough to have one go on him, its an audible knock that happens at twice the frequency of the exhaust pulse (as it knocks every rotation). The knock that I was hearing was the intake cam making contact with the valve spring caps and the other parts flying around the valve train area.
 
Thanks for the info i'm new to the high end dirtbike scene, picked up a 04 te450 like yours, so i'm trying to soak up all the knowledge I can. I'm glad your issue wasn't a new bottom end. Is there a certain amount of hours where one would be worried about that?
 
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