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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TC450 starting issues hot and cold

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badonkadonk72

Husqvarna
Hey guys, a mate is having some major starting issues with is 2004 tc 450 100 anniversary model. It is extremely difficult to start whether hot or cold, started off being a bit of a pain starting cold and not too bad when hot progressing to the only way to start her is towing it around for 10 mins before she fires... If your lucky. When she's going she goes hard, as hard as she always has. We've renewed the plug stripped and cleaned the carb, one of the jets was partially blocked which we cleared, but didn't help, any ideas or tests we can do to narrow down the problem? TIA
 
Norman Foley said:
Valves are shot, is my bet. Check the clearances and they are probably too tight with no space to shim them. Have the valves ever been replaced?
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I would agree. I recently bought the same year and model, and it was difficult to start from the get go. I knew from this forum ahead of time that it was likely valves. When I checked the valves the exhausts had about .004" clearance but one intake was being held open slightly, the other intake the shim was missing and was not closing also. Check out how sunk the valve is, and worn. It is about 3mm less in diameter. Never seen a valve that bad on any motor. How do bad valves make it through production in this day and age? Absolute junk. Hope the guys valves are not as bad as this.
 

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badonkadonk72 said:
ASlow idle jet, just blown out by mouth
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Idle jets are so small, varnish builds up very fast on the tiny opening and reduces the size tremendously,

Get a 2 foot piece of speaker wire, get to where you can get one of the tiny strands separated from the wire. Wrap that strand around you finger to make a rough spring shape. Pass that thru the jet , do it several times. If the crud is so affixed to the inside of the jet, you may have to get a brand new jet.
 
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