• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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04 TC450 Piston Kits

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huskykansan

Husqvarna
Hello all, need some more advice for the experts here. I'm hunting down a piston kit for an 04 Tc450 but wanted to ask you folks where you buy your piston kits from. I will be ordering a kit this week so if anybody has a favorite person or knows of a sponsor that sells them please let me know. Happy Thanksgiving!
 
well, bit if a long story really! I bought an 05 te250 that needed a new cylinder head and after doing some digging I couldn't find a decent cylinder head setup unless I wanted to buy one for a grand out of Australia. I have no interest in dealing with the shipping and the headache involved with that so I began looking into other options. I found a gentleman on here (good dude, he really hooked me up!) that had a 450 lower for sale with the cylinder and piston. I figured what the heck I might as well swap it out to a 450 as I planned on running a 310 big bore kit anyways. I'm a bigger fella at 6'3 230 and I was a little concerned about the 250 power doing uphill's and on the roads. Long story short, the piston had a couple deep scratches on the skirt I was not to excited with so I just decided to replace it. It probably would have ran fine but since I had it apart I figured I might as well.
 
huskykansan said:
well, bit if a long story really! I bought an 05 te250 that needed a new cylinder head and after doing some digging I couldn't find a decent cylinder head setup unless I wanted to buy one for a grand out of Australia. I have no interest in dealing with the shipping and the headache involved with that so I began looking into other options. I found a gentleman on here (good dude, he really hooked me up!) that had a 450 lower for sale with the cylinder and piston. I figured what the heck I might as well swap it out to a 450 as I planned on running a 310 big bore kit anyways. I'm a bigger fella at 6'3 230 and I was a little concerned about the 250 power doing uphill's and on the roads. Long story short, the piston had a couple deep scratches on the skirt I was not to excited with so I just decided to replace it. It probably would have ran fine but since I had it apart I figured I might as well.
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Gotcha! Good luck with the build and most importantly; have fun!
 
You can run a te or smr piston you will loose compression
but you will pick up another ring check your jug if it is scratched
send it out with a new piston to get re done to specks.
 
Thanks for the advice, who are we all sending cylinders off too to get them redone? The cylinder does have a few very light scratches at the bottom. Luckily the piston too all the abuse. I was going to run a hone down it, which I think will clean up those light scratches. Then I will measure it and see if it is within specifications to the piston, unless anybody can think of why that's a bad idea. I definitely want to make sure its done correctly. Thanks again everybody for your help!
 
I would not hone it
when you get a piston you will have to send it out with the jug
to be re nickasil and honed to the husqvarna specs
while the head is off take the valves out and check them
measure your timing chain and make sure it is in spec
start ordering your parts now so you might get them some day
look at your old head gasket note the size you will need a base gasket
check the water pump seal you might need one of those it is also a good time to check the timming chain sliders
as far as getting the jug like back to new there are a lot of places around the US to pick from
you will have a blast doing this project
 
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