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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

04 Valve Shim Kit

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absolut_zero273

Husqvarna
C Class
I see you have a valve shim kit for the 05+ husky's, but to you also have a kit for the 04's with the smaller 7.48mm shims? My local (non-husky) dealer wants to charge outrageous prices for individual shims and I really don't want to spend $80 on the Hotcams kit with a bunch of shims I will never need. Thanks.
 
We do have the same kit 2.10 - 2.35 for the 7.48 shims, however the 2004 valves are prone to moving and the bigger kit might be a good idea. Do you know if the valves have been upgraded ? It would make a difference. We also have the next kit down 1.70 to 2.05 . Let us know what you would like. Mike.
 
Thanks for checking into it for me guys, your kit is actually cheaper than I can get 4 individual shims locally. The valves have not been upgraded, and this is the first time I have needed to adjust them. I checked them at 900 miles when I bought the bike last winter (they were just in) and now at 1500 when I noticed it getting tougher to start when hot (they are just out). I am aware of the valve issues on these and will be getting the stainless valves and springs when it comes to that. I am pretty sure I have a very early 04 (it has a 5 speed transmission) so I don't know if that helps with the valve issue or not. Let me check my shims width (my better half called me back into the house before I could pull them to measure) and I will get back to you. Thanks again.
 
Once the right intake starts to loose tolerance do yourself a favor and do the head / valves before something catastrophic happens. Once it goes it goes real quick as the outside hardened layer has been compromised. I had a 04 TE450, been there did that.
 
Thanks, I will keep an extra close eye on the right intake valve. I'm checking them with every oil change and if they change much from here I am definitely swapping in the stainless valves.
 
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