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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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lesrsz28

lesrsz28

Husqvarna
AA Class
OK I am going to check my valves for the first time. Only have 3-4 hr on it. (TXC 450) I Thought I would also change the oil so I could look at the filters before I get too far from my warrenty. The shop where I got it sold me some Maxima synblend 4 20-50W oil. Is this ok or what do you use? also is this too soon to change the oil mabey just check the filter and screens.
Thanks Les
 
It is a great time to change that oil. Pull the screens and also the filter. Check for and alum slivers or pieces that are out of the ordinary. Probably just gonna find the usual stuff, but since its the first change it doesn't hurt to check.

Maxima is fine, but you might think of going to 10-50 or something a little lighter when its cold. Most important thing is to change it regularly. I have been running Shell rotella T for about a year now and have no problems.
 
It's never to soon to dump that initial oil and assembly lube that resides within. I'd say it's to soon to check the valves. 3-4 hours isn't enough time to let them settle in.
 
I was just wondering the manual said to check them at 3 hr so how long have some of you gone and what results did you have

Les
 
lesrsz28;19386 said:
I was just wondering the manual said to check them at 3 hr so how long have some of you gone and what results did you have

Les
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My 2006 TE250 was off a bit from the factory so checking them might be a good idea. I adjusted mine and they have not moved at all since then.
 
My TE450 has not needed adjustment in over 3500 miles so far. Just another reason I picked a Husky over a KTM.:thumbsup:
 
Change oil/filter and clean the screens now,,,check valves around 5-10 hours,I usually check them around 8 hrs for the first time. Both of my 08 450's where fine from the factory,but thats not saying yours are. If you do check them now,check them again around 15 hours to be sure they haven't tightened up.
 
I changed the oil and found just small amount of metal on the mag plug prety fine no big pieces also some alunimun in the screens. I will ride it some more and see how it looks next time. Checked the valves and they were fine. Do you see that they loosesn up or get tigthter as they wear and which is worse?
 
Do you see that they loosesn up or get tigthter as they wear and which is worse?
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They will get tighter. Good to hear you are getting familiar with the inside of your husky. :thumbsup:
 
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