• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Shims '11 TE449

gillies

gillies

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm preparing to check and adjust the valves on my bike. First time on the TE, but have have done the job several times successfully on my old F650 and once on a friend's CRF250.

What I'd like to know is how common the TE shims are. Can I buy a generic shim kit that covers a variety of sizes? This was easy for the CRF, and the kit was about $80. The BMW didn't have such a kit, so I bought a few sizes either way after pulling the originals.

Really just trying to avoid a bunch of trips to the shop. Also, any other items you would suggest having on hand before I open her up?
 
Hey mate, have just completed a full rebuild, assembled myself. After finally getting to install the cams etc I completed a valve clearance check. Found all four clearances to be .05 under the minimum specified in my work shop manual. Either way the inlet shims are a half ball type which are brand specific I would say. The exhaust are a bucket/shim type like all the jap 450's but, are of a larger diameter, so once again you will have to buy original, bugger hey.
 
Bugger I mean't to measure them last night and I forgot ****************************************!
 
I measured the bucket shims last night, the genuine shims are 10mm. The 9.48 shims would definately fit but, I wouldn't wamt them rattling around in my bike... The 9.48 shims are what majority of 450 bikes use but not the 449/511 inspired engines. Also the inlet shims are a half moon type so completely different again. If anyone finds a shim kit to suite, let us know hey.
 
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