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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

simple valve job turned complicated

Husq-a-daygo

Husq-a-daygo

Husqvarna
AA Class
Went to pull my shims out from my intake valves. Thought process..."do I need to stuff a rag into the case at the timing belt? Naw, I got this."
DOH! I dropped it down in there of course.
Question: Am I an idiot?
Answer: Yes.
Spent the last hour fishing for it with a magnet to no avail. Thought process on next step options...
1. drain oil out of case, turn bike over an shake it over a white table cloth
2.get a stronger magnet
3. full top/ bottom end teardown @ 2400 miles. not cool.
 
Husq-a-daygo said:
Went to pull my shims out from my intake valves. Thought process..."do I need to stuff a rag into the case at the timing belt? Naw, I got this."
DOH! I dropped it down in there of course.
Question: Am I an idiot?
Answer: Yes.
Spent the last hour fishing for it with a magnet to no avail. Thought process on next step options...
1. drain oil out of case, turn bike over an shake it over a white table cloth
2.get a stronger magnet
3. full top/ bottom end teardown @ 2400 miles. not cool.
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NateDog! you can beat me later, but we only charge $150 to do that valve adjustment. ;) If you pull the RH engine cover (a PITA) but doable with engine in frame, you will probably see it sitting right there. Hope you find it. Hit me up and I can give you a few tricks to do it. We gotta go riding! :cheers: Ben
 
Make dam sure you dropped it down into the motor first. I've done valves before and had a shim drop into a little crevis behind a spring or in a puddle of oil on the top end I couldn't see. Long story short I pulled the side case and no shim down there because it was up in the head the whole time..... Don't be me lol
 
Since valve adjustments are few and far between, I just have mine done at the shop. Well worth the $150 IMO. Valve checks are easy though.
 
Got home from work and decided to try to get the shim from the side. Drained the coolant and oil took off the water pump cover, removed the clutch cover and basket. Lo and behold I found the little sucker!
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You can run but you cant hide.
What I tore down to get to it.
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About an hour and a half to tear down.
 
Winner, had a guy out front of our shop who looked for 3 hours for a bolt he dropped. I walked up and pulled on off his lower tree "is this it " said I. should have seen the look on his face worth a million bucks hahaa
 
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