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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Went to do first valve adjustment....

Poopy

Poopy

Husqvarna
AA Class
I bought a hot cams kit from my closest dealership about a year ago, the bike came from his shop as well. After a broken kneecap last year I havent ridden in about a year so the bike collected dust. Now im riding regularly again and thought, im going to do my first valve check/adjustment. So, Ive got a tight exhaust valve, grab my trusty expensive shim kit....and they are WAY too small. Goofball at the husky dealer sold me the 7.48mm kit. :banghead::banghead::banghead::thumbsdown:

I didnt even know there were two sizes, I just assumed being a husky dealer, he would have sold me the right kit. :confused:

Now its been over a year and I have no receipt.....off to the yamaha dealer to get the shims I need.
 
For the record Motosportz had the kits fairly inexpensively last I checked.

I'm changing the title of the thread
"valve job" -> "valve adjustment"
 
07 TC250, the folks at the honda dealership had some shims for me. :thumbsup: It was even easier to do than I thought, thank Coffee for his video. I had a tightish exhaust valve, it ran a LOT better today, didnt seem to fart and die as often.

Heres a shot from today!

VedderAugust.jpg
 
The hot cams kit (80$ from dennis kirk) has a bunch of shims you would never need for a husky, the motosportz has the ones you would use and cost less. I
think I may need be able to use the other ones in my HC kit on my suzuki DRZ400 and SV1000S. Maybe even my wife's Yamaha FZ6, but it may use a different diameter of shim.
 
To add insult to injury, I went to install a new front rotor last night from the same Husky "dealer" that I got the wrong valve shims from, and its from some other random bike, its about 1" smaller diameter, and the bolt pattern is completely different.

I like huskys, but man these guys could really turn off a LOT of customers with their poor service.
 
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