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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Where is TDC?

gixxer188

gixxer188

Husqvarna
A Class
On my 2008 SM450R when I align the two dots on the timing chain gear with the mark on the engine case the piston is at its lowest point in the stroke. When the piston is at the highest point in the stroke the two dots are not aligned with the mark on the case.

Do I need to rotate the timing chain gear so the two dots align with the mark on the engine case when the piston is at the top of the stroke, its highest point?

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Do I need to rotate the timing chain gear so the two dots align with the mark on the engine case when the piston is at the top of the stroke, its highest point?
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Yep
 
Hello gixxer- I noticed all your posts in EFI/Carb are not about EFI Carb but should be in the 4-stroke or common topics threads. If you have questions that are about the EFI systems or Carbs this is the place for it. But mechanical stuff should be in one of the other threads. You'll probably get more responses there as well. Good luck, sounds like you are getting good info.
 
HUSKYnXJnWI said:
Hello gixxer- I noticed all your posts in EFI/Carb are not about EFI Carb but should be in the 4-stroke or common topics threads. If you have questions that are about the EFI systems or Carbs this is the place for it. But mechanical stuff should be in one of the other threads. You'll probably get more responses there as well. Good luck, sounds like you are getting good info.
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Thanks for the info, the board is a bit confusing. My bike is both a 4-stroke and EFI, but the descriptions for either of those forums don't say anything about "mechanical" and the "technical" forum doesn't allow posting so it's a bit different from other forums I am on and have run/owned.
 
OlderHuskyRider said:
Are you putting the engine back together from being apart?
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Yes, I replaced the base and cylinder gaskets, set it to what I thought was TDC before I took it apart to replace the gaskets. Then when it wouldn't start and locked up due to being out of time I was directed to the "how to time your husky" thread.
 
HUSKYnXJnWI said:
Hello gixxer- I noticed all your posts in EFI/Carb are not about EFI Carb but should be in the 4-stroke or common topics threads. If you have questions that are about the EFI systems or Carbs this is the place for it. But mechanical stuff should be in one of the other threads. You'll probably get more responses there as well. Good luck, sounds like you are getting good info.
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Correct.
gixxer188 said:
Thanks for the info, the board is a bit confusing. My bike is both a 4-stroke and EFI, but the descriptions for either of those forums don't say anything about "mechanical" and the "technical" forum doesn't allow posting so it's a bit different from other forums I am on and have run/owned.
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I am open to suggestions for better titles/descriptions. This is what they are now:
"EFI/carb
ibeat, Power Commander, Carb jetting..."

"Technical Reference
"How to" Technical Articles".

The Technical forum is just a collection of good information with links to other areas where the actual thread exists. Like a large "locked sticky thread". (sadly, I don't get to update that often)
 
How about "Air/Fuel Tuning & Troubleshooting" or something of that nature.

Would be kind of nice to break up the motor types in the 4 Stroke area too, but I understand the need to keep the forum structure as clean as possible.

You do a great job here, Coffee!!
 
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