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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2011 TC449, bike cranks but won't start with starter, bump starts fine

I have no idea how many hours are on the bike. I bought the bike from the 3rd owner. He bought the bike in the same condition I got it in and only rode it twice, due to the motor and starting issue. Apparently the original owner didn't race it, but used it for trail riding.

There is no hour meter or odometer...

Overall, its in excellent condition. The brake rotors don't show any wear, but I guess they could have been replaced...

It has the stock bore size, showing no measurable wear, and the standard bore piston.
 
jmk015 said:
Yeah, after seeing how badly the exhaust valves leaked, I'm surprised that it ran at all and it bump started pretty easily. It actually ran pretty well, and didn't smoke.

I didn't take a picture of the head before I dropped it off at the machine shop. I carefully inspected it for cracks, and didn't find any. The shop is going to do a valve job on all 4 valves. The machinist said that the valves and seats looked OK, and that they can probably* just be re-ground. I'll know by the end of the week, once they get to it.

The cylinder still measures 98.00 mm, and my piston skirt is 97.94mm (0.06 mm piston to cylinder clearance). My ring end gap is .55mm. I can't find any specs for cylinder to bore clearance or ring gap in the Husky manual... but the BMW G450x manual says that the piston to cylinder clearance is 0.06-0.0-8mm and that new ring end gap should be 0.1-0.3mm. Maximum tolerance for worn ring end gap is 0.50mm, so my rings are worn and need to be replaced.


Can anyone verify that the g450x numbers are also correct for the husky 449? (its the same motor, right?)

Where can I buy a standard bore ring set? All I see the my Husky parts book is the complete piston and ring kit, and I don't need a piston. The Wossner and Pro-X websites also list the piston+ring kits, but I just want a set of STD bore rings!?
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Yes. Optimal cylinder-piston clearance is 0.06-0.08mm, ring gap no more than 0.5mm. If gap is 0,5+mm, then engine has gases blowing, but starts whitout problems and runs OK. You can't buy OEM rings separately, only piston kit. Prox rings don't fit on OEM piston properly.

P.S. I had standard original piston by ELKO
 
I found husky part number 8538998

I appears to be a 98mm STD bore ring kit for the TE449. My local husky dealer says its in stock and is only $38!! Since the Te449 and TC449 use basically the same motor, shouldn;t this fit my bike too? See more info on it here:
http://www.ktm-parts.com/AOMC/product/8538998

Its just weird that this part isn't in the Husky parts book...
 
jmk015 said:
I found husky part number 8538998

I appears to be a 98mm STD bore ring kit for the TE449. My local husky dealer says its in stock and is only $38!! Since the Te449 and TC449 use basically the same motor, shouldn;t this fit my bike too? See more info on it here:
http://www.ktm-parts.com/AOMC/product/8538998

Its just weird that this part isn't in the Husky parts book...
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They're in the 2014 TE449-511 parts manual drawing 8, pg 28, #8... I don't know why they're not in any other parts manual. weird.


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Where can I get valve guides for my TC449 head?

They aren't listed in the TC, TE, 511, or g450X parts book, and I called my two nearest Husky dealers and neither of them could help me. My local machine shop can't find them either.

If they aren't available from Husky, what aftermarket valve guides fit these heads!!?!?!?!

Thanks!
 
I answered my own question about valve guides: You CAN'T GET THEM ANYWHERE. Seriously, they do not exist.

Husky does not sell them and either can't or won't say who they source them from. There are NO aftermarket companies that sell valve guides for these motors.




There is only one, VERY EXPENSIVE, option:

You can mail your cylinder head to Halls Cycle (A big Husky Dealer in IL) and their machinist will take the old guides out of your head and custom make new guides for you. Yeah, he makes them from scratch from brass stock at their machine shop. They will NOT make you set and mail them to you, no matter how much extra you offer to pay. You have to send them your head and pay them to do a valve job and install the new custom made guides.



In conclusion, you're totally screwed if your 449 or 511 head ever needs valve guides.
 
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