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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Kevin_TE250

Kevin_TE250

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Okay used Coffee's vid and everything is going pretty easy... Just gonna ask a stupid Q..


TE 250 specs
Intake 10 -15MM

My measure: 15 easy and I mean real easy just a little drag

Exhaust 15 - 20

My measure 15 easy, 17 if I force it, 20 no way...


Question1

Is it Ok for the intake to be a real easy 15 ? should I put a bigger shim to make it tighter ? I know this is stupid...


Question 2

for the exhaust.. am I shooting for 20 ? should I be happy that it is on the smaller end of the scale ? should I go for a smaller shim ?



Thanks for entertaining the Neighborhood idiot's questions......
 
I believe the shims only come in 0.05mm increments. So if it is easy 0.15mm and it is changed to the next size then it could be an easy 0.10mm i.e a 0.12 would be the gap in theory.

I go for closest to the middle but that is not always possible unless the shims are sanded.


Honestly I think you are close enough for the time being, these are overbuilt valve systems compared to other brands.
 
Coffee;6373 said:
Honestly I think you are close enough for the time being, these are overbuilt valve systems compared to other brands.
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I think your probably right.... I'm fixating on the exhaust though

Spec is .15-.20

and it's a real easy .15 and a tiiiiiiight .178 so you wouldn't worry about it though ?
 
Kevin_TE250;6374 said:
I think your probably right.... I'm fixating on the exhaust though

Spec is .15-.20

and it's a real easy .15 and a tiiiiiiight .178 so you wouldn't worry about it though ?
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It sounds like that is set correctly to me. If you changed to the next size you would be easy 0.20mm and tight 0.228 - right?

.178 - .15 = .028

.028 + .20 = .228... yeah, think that is how the math works out.
 
You are not being ridiculous and no question is silly.

There is probably a reason they specify a 0.05mm range, cause that is how far apart the shims are in the shim kits. That is my guess at least.
 
I appreciate it...

Thanks for helping me out... Still have the 250 and still loving it at 119 hours of riding (mostly dropping it in the idaho mtns..) went ahead and put a rekluse z-start on it , removed the clutch and am now running the Left hand rear break... It's like cheating I tell ya... I'm cleaning things I have no business doing...

but it's still a 250 so you better be in the right gear.. so I'm considering a 300 kit to remove that impediment.... along with any clutch dancing skills I ever had... :D

Was also wondering about your leg ? last time I spoke with you, you were still post op...
 
Kelly at Motorsportz described how he sanded his down using a tire gauge to hold it. The post is either here or the other place. Just leaving Mammoth or I'd look it up for you.

Snowed here. Took a ride on a dirt and paved road till I hit some ice. Luckily I found some dry spot to turn around....treacherous at idle speed even....
 
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