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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Te449 - Newbie With Dead Crankshaft And Possible Dead Flywheel

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beni911

Husqvarna
B Class
Hello everybody,

my name is Ben, I´m coming from Austria and now after almost 20 years asphalt under my wheels I am on the way to my first dirt bike... I had the thought already, until then this year by chance a cheap TE 449 (2012, 3500km) fell into the hands... which needs some “love”.

As said the price brings unfortunately some work with it: the bike did not start with the electric starter, but could be bump-started, then it and ran… and rattled a lot (gearbox is ok). First we thought that there is a problem with the head (no compression), but after disassembling the complete engine it look likes the engine was driven “hot” as we say in German – the piston is scratched, also the cylinder a bit (but looks like can be serviced), and the connecting rod is damaged on both ends… The rest seems to be ok, also the head.

To be done: crankshaft with bearing, cylinder honing, piston,….

So first of all a crankshaft is needed… as I have already read a lot (Café Husky/ FB 449 owners group) the crankshaft is the weak spot of this bike in terms of repair or even getting an replacement for it… L
So my first question is: has anybody ever repaired a crankshaft? The work could be done by some friends of mine, but where to get spar e rod, bearings for it and the connecting bolt for the crank? Would save a lot of money… If not available, is the complete crankshaft available now?

Second question: removal of the f***g flywheel… The flywheel had something against being removed from the crank, and as in Dangermouse´s video (thanks man, I don´t know how many people benefit from what you have done and documented on your 449, thumbs up!) I had to head it three times to get it down, so the heat damaged the plastic rings between flywheel and magnets. Can I use the flywheel in this condition (see photo)? Would save a lot of money also…

So among others these two questions make the difference a good deal and crying myself into sleep every night… :D

Thanks in advance
Ben

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So, crank is disassembled, looks like the conrod passed away... crank looks good. But thats no help, because no conrod is available as far as i know?+DSC_0668.JPG+DSC_0671.JPG
 
I am assuming that you tried the 449/511 facebook group too? I hate to say it, but they're more active.
Whoops- nvm. I re-read your post.

Keep us updated.
 
You can still get rods, just no crank. I'd check to see if you can source a local shop to rebuild the crank. We have a special mod we do to improve oil flow around the big end, but you'd have to ship it back and forth to the US.
 
Pro-X or Wossner should have the rod and piston too. Just put a Pro-x con-rod and Wossner piston in my ’06 510 SMR. They come with new bearings and con-rod pin.
 
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