• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

When to rebuild my bike

109HUSKY

109HUSKY

Husqvarna
I own a TC 250 2010 and have been racing local rounds for about 2 years now, the bike has 80 hrs on it and is still running like a charm, starts 1st or 2nd kick all the time. I see lots of people getting rebuilds and engine work done to their bikes at around 35 - 50 hrs, does this mean i should be doing the same, and have i left it too late?
 
Agree with above. racing is much more demanding than trail riding so the engine will wear more quickly leak down is a great guide. For mine I would probably to a top end refresh for the coming season and put in new clutch plates
 
I'm taking my bike in tomorrow to get some minor things done i will let the guy know and see what he says but thanks heaps for your help
 
I pulled the cylinder off my 08 TC 450 at 120 hrs and was ready for a full rebuild. . Compression good. Valve clearance good. Zero cylinder scratches. Timing chain stretch acceptable. Don't fix what's in specs. I put it back together.
 
Yeah, took it in today for a few minor things and asked the guy about what he thinks, he said he would take a look and get back to me
 
troy deck said:
do a leak down test if its good run it.... factory service intervals are insane always lookin to sell parts
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I agree. Leak down test in a shop you can trust. I think too many shops are used to guys dropping off a bike and a blank check. I, unfortunately, live in the real world. I am lucky to have access to a quality motor guy that will check parts for spec and replace as needed - not as determined by some matrix that probably got translated wrong.
 
I gotta go by the shade tree method here :) . And I got 2 of those bikes ... One uses oil and the other one has not used a drop yet ... The oil user has ~210hrs ... 161 of those are mine .... The other bike is about ~130hrs ... The lower hr one feels better in overall engine performance. The other feels ok and plenty for trails ....

Mostly just a trail rider also and I'm pretty easy on my engines as compared to a real racer person ...

I have the rings and will swap them out shortly ... I hoping for instant HP gain :)
 
ray_ray said:
I have the rings and will swap them out shortly ... I hoping for instant HP gain :)
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Well that is the wrong approach. If you want instant HP gains - you need some Cafe Husky stickers - those suckers are dyno proven to like 7 hp!
 
bigmo said:
Well that is the wrong approach. If you want instant HP gains - you need some Cafe Husky stickers - those suckers are dyno proven to like 7 hp!
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I'm liking those words... I'll be needing a couple dozen Cafe Husky Stickers :banana:
 
109HUSKY said:
I own a TC 250 2010 and have been racing local rounds for about 2 years now, the bike has 80 hrs on it and is still running like a charm, starts 1st or 2nd kick all the time. I see lots of people getting rebuilds and engine work done to their bikes at around 35 - 50 hrs, does this mean i should be doing the same, and have i left it too late?
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Did that bike come with white or yellow lettered rims?
 
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