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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE 450 clutch

D

Dirt

Husqvarna
AA Class
I put an Oberon slave on and bled twice. Clutch is dragging. What would be the next thing to look for?
 
So, when you pull the clutch in, the bike still wants to creep forward? If so, your clutch rod may be worn and too short to fully separate the clutch plates.

Are you running a thick oil? I might try some 0w40 Mobil 1 before anything else if you are running a 20w50 or thicker
 
Yes it creeps with the clutch lever pulled in. I looked at the rod and did not seem worn but did not measure it.
 
Does it creep when it's warm, or only when it's cold? Like OHR said, what kind of oil are you using? That makes a big difference. Is your master cylinder leaking at all?
 
It is an 05. It has 10/50 in it now that I need to change. I will put 0w40 and let it get to operating temp.
 
Try Shell Rotella T6 5w40 oil. It is rated properly for your ride, is low cost and no more clutch drag.

Paw Paw
 
Try tightening up your clutch springs a half turn each. maybe even take them out and clean them with brake cleaner, soak them over night in the correct oil and pop them back in.
Note" most of the 05/06's had a very slight push when the clutch was engaged.
 
I tried to download a service PDF with no success. Anybody know the clutch plate thickness specs?
 
Looks like new plate thickness is .118, wear limit is .114. Clutch springs are 1.61 in new, 1.53 max wear.
 
There was another guy on here that had the same problems with the Oberon slave and his bike responded to new springs. The Oberon unit mus be a slightly different spec than stock causing these problems.
 
Just to put a twistie tie on this, determined the push rod was 3.5 mm to short causing slave to max out causing snap ring shoulder to blow out on stock slave. Installed new push rod, Oberon slave cylinder, bled slave. Tested today on 22 miles of single track and 4 wheeler trail. Brilliant.

Thanks for the replies.
 
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