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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

99% lucky (so far)

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The pic below shows the rocker arm retainer off my 08 TXC250. To its right is what was stuck to my oil plug when I changed oil today ... I nearly dropped to the floor at first glance of the plug ...

In most cases I would probably not have been able to identify where or what the metal scraps were stuck to my drain plug ... But in this case, I had been looking for the piece of metal and I was pretty sure what I was looking at ..

This bike was purchased as a demo model and I discovered that tab broken off the intake side retainer the 1st time I checked the valves but the place that sold me the bike no longer existed at this time so I had no clue if it broke after I purchased the bike or was broken at the dealer and he failed to tell me about it ...

In any case, at the time, I searched the top of the head the best I could and just hoped it was not gonna chew up the engine ... At ~550 hrs, it showed up today on the plug ... The bike ran OK today and I'm hoping no issues tomorrow from this ...
 

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I'd say you are lucky- it could have gotten chewed up a long time ago rather than recently. Otherwise it looks fairly intact. Whatever damage it could have did is done...

I'd get a new retainer if you havent- just to make adjustments easier- other than there's not much you can do but keep riding it.
 
Yep, I need a new retainer ... I had actually given up on it coming to the light of day and forgot about it because it had been so long since I saw it broken off ...

Just finished the check on the valve clearance and all 4 seem to be in tolerance ...
 
HOLY CRAP!!

You've been running that machine for that many HRS with that hunk of metal in their somewhere??

Thats lucky. Heck, 550 hrs is lucky.
 
Yep on the metal tab ... I might be 100% lucky as no issues to date due to it as far as I know...

And the 550 hrs might or might not be lucky ...I've never been one to believe the low numbers written out here on piston, rings, cranks, etc lives for these machines ... Husky as any other company will write the lowest numbers possible in their manuals for legal reasons I'd guess ... And if you wanna do maintenance overhaul at a couple hundred hrs, fine, but I purchased a Husky to not do these type of repairs ... And I do not abuse my engine to a high degree I'm sure many might do to their engines ... I'm sure this helps engine life ;)

The rings and gaskets were purchased back at 300hrs or so and just have never put them in ... The bike acts and sounds like it did at ~100 hrs so I keep putting the ring swap off as this is all I'm gonna do the first time ... The vapor shows ~10,000 miles ... that sounds like a lot to me and I'm getting a little worried about over extending the life here of the engine topend ...

I'm just curious as to where that metal tab has been for all these hrs ... I only saw one hole in the head where oil drains back down but there could be others ... If it passed through from top to bottom in this hole, next I wonder what the route of that hole is ...
 
It could have easily went down the cam chain gallery during a left side tip over. It also looks like it went thru at least one set of gears.... Ah well, it probably didn't hurt anything & you can rest easy now.
Re the 550 hrs. These bikes do last a long time. I would hazard a guess that the end gap on the compression ring may be getting close to the outer spec at this point. That would likely be the only issue. You you may want to take that into consideration. It also depends on how you ride it; if you're mostly trail plonking & the engine is spending most of its time between 4000 & 8000 rpm, it should last longer than mx-ing with a lot of hard acceleration.
Might be worth doing a leakdown just for fun?
 
Yep, I'm about 4-10Gs ... the 14t FS helps with speed and keep the RPMs down ...Unless I go to the track < 9g most of the time , just 4-stroking it around the mountains roads...

How is a leakdown test conducted? Currently, I have a bridge with a small bump on it ... I hit it in 3rd gear, ~7G, and pull the front wheel off the ground as power-on test ... So far, the wheel comes up as easy as last year so I feel the power is still there ...

I'm wanting to swap out the mains also with some of the FAGs bearing mentioned out here ,,. I just hate to tear inside there ... maybe I'll ahead and do the rings in the near future ...
 
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