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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky TE 450 2010

kevin holden

kevin holden

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just bought the above bike and before i take her out i need to change the oils and check the valve clearances etc as i've not this before has anyone got any tips....

Thanks Guys
 
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/how-to-check-valves-on-a-2006-4stroke-video.1159/

I think this is one of the best "how to's" on the net.

Removing the fuel hose from the fuel pump is the hardest part I think, of course yours is fuel injected and not carbed (the video shows the older carburetor based models). That and replacing the rocker arm retainer clip. Stuff a rag on the LH side of the valve chamber so your shim pads don't drop down into the crank case! A telescopic magnet tool is a must for removing the old shims.

As Coffee points out, make sure to measure between the rocker arm and the shim pad. Get the feeler gauge between the pad and rocker as flat as you can so the measurement is accurate.
 
Got it all done..... it's test ride time tomorrow i put castrol power 1 10W 50 oil in, replaced the coolant, check the valve clearance all ok, and just gave it a good clean. Thanks for the info
 
kevin holden said:
Got it all done..... it's test ride time tomorrow i put castrol power 1 10W 50 oil in, replaced the coolant, check the valve clearance all ok, and just gave it a good clean. Thanks for the info
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No worries, but you should really be thanking coffee.
Make sure to check the valve cover bolts after a quick ride. They seem to work loose from the standard torque.
 
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