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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Valve Check/Clearance

M

mostpremium2003

Husqvarna
B Class
So as I was waiting for someone to respond on my last post, I decided to check my valves on my 08 smr'd te510.
Looks like i need some shimming.
Do most motos share shim "kits" (are the shim kits generic) or do I need a Is it cheaper to just grab a Hotcam shim kit, or do I need a Husqvarna specific kit?
It would be great if I could goto the honda dealership next door and just grab the shims I need.


Thanks
 
Pretty sure the the shims are common to most of the Japanese bikes, 7.48mm diameter and you'll likely need a few shims in the 2.25 - 2.35mm range. You've already checked the gaps so you should be able to do a bit of math and calculate what shims you need to get it back into spec. If you have a good shop close by, I wouldn't bother with a full shim kit, just buy the shims you need now and odds are that if this is your fist check, they won't budge for the next 100 hrs.
 
mostpremium2003;86913 said:
Sweet. Thanks

7.48mm fit the 450/510?
Or do I need the 9.xxmm dia shims?
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I thought it was the 9.48mm diameter shims. If it were me I'd order from Motosportz, or at least look at their page. Last I checked they were priced well.

I really mean that.
 
Yikes, I think I was wrong on the 7.48mm, pretty sure you all are correct with the 9.48mm! Hope my bad advice didn't mess you up!
 
The older 450/510 (like '04) was 7.48. Changed to 9.48 in '05 or '06.

I have a full Hot Cams set and it's nice to know I won't have to go hunting for shims, but these bikes don't need valve adjustments very often so the cheapest option is to just buy individual shims as needed. The shims are common to most (all?) Japanese MX bikes.
 
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