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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Anyone have an idea what a lower end preventive rebuild might cost?

Kam1

Kam1

Husqvarna
AA Class
Thinking of keeping my 04 tc 450 for another 7 or 8 years and feel like I am due for a bottom end rebuild due to mystery copper piece that showed up on only one oil change and hasnt resurfaced since-8 lofs since strained no metal. I rebuilt the head with stainless valves from halls 2 years ago and they havent moved, I think I will replace piston at same time of lower end- engine will be removed and top will be off when delivered to shop any rough idea would be great, thanks.
 
When I rebuilt my 08 TXC250, 2 options were available for the parts that moved the cost up or down ... OEM parts or 3rd party ... 3rd party were a little cheaper but I don't know if your bike will have these parts available ..

I'm thinking $250 for OEM piston and rings and $150 for PRO-x big-end rod kit ... My memory may be bad on the costs but should be close and you can probably do the case splitting with only a FW puller (20$) and maybe a small gear puller (?$) and help from the experts on CH ...OEM mains were about 65$ each but 3rd party ones are alot cheaper ...

Good luck and post pics if you do the work ...
 
Thanks ray-ray I also think oem is the way to go on bottom end- I havent posted any pics yet on anything but I also have never used pay pal either- time to learn, motosportz has some lowered pegs and risers with my name on them.
 
Kam1 said:
Thanks ray-ray I also think oem is the way to go on bottom end- I havent posted any pics yet on anything but I also have never used pay pal either- time to learn, motosportz has some lowered pegs and risers with my name on them.
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Good luck on the rebuild and I had never split any cases before my rebuild but all the guys and girls here have all the answers and actually was not too big a deal ...

Again, my numbers are just estimates and you might also need a good torque wrench and maybe a cheater bar as a few of the items inside my machine were scary tight ...
 
I understand just estimate, I also have great torque wrenches I am a master tech on autos- that said I dont do trannys on cars and am a little more than nervous on splitting the case- if I screw up I will never hear the end of it:) That said until youre post I was on the edge of paying someone else to do the bottom end, I will however pay someone to rebuild the crank-2 piece crank what the hell is that? I love working on bikes they are so simple-something tells me that comment will stop here:eek: What would you guys order to start, I am thinking main bearings, big end crank bearings,whatever trans shaft rides on for bearings, piston kit, timing chain,sprockets,guides,tensioner, and head gasket. Is there sealant between the cases? If so is it just RTV, If so I am thinking Hondabond, or toyota fibbage-I may have some fibbage that needs used up. Thanks again for the input.
 
Kam, here's a link to a site with a shop manual for you bike. I can't remember who orginally posted this but MattR put it with the other manual links over in the '2-stroke Thread Index' section. there are about 5 more links over there that may also lead to more help. It's pinned at the top of the page in 2 stroke about 6 down. and inside about 5 or 6 down you'll see the 'Bike Manuals' list...

The one below is 500 some pages and very specific, page 316 has an answer to the case sealant; Loctite 510 I believe it was. Although right off the bat, I've heard discussions from mechanics about better sealants...their view was the Loctite was too brittle and a more flexable one would be better, just the start of an interesting rebuild!

Hope this helps and good luck!

http://www.husqvarnafactory.nl/pdf/2012.htm,
 
Thanks pahusky, I looked up all the parts from halls site on saturday, emailed the list and got a response- if I ignore adding cb shaft, and refrain from replacing starter at this time parts for bottem end including high volume water pump-569.30 plus piston 250.00,plus lowered pegs and risers from motosportz 125ish, throw in another extra 200.00 for any suprise-1144.30- So my plan is going to be divide parts over 4 months which will put me mid april and then have one crazy weekend. I really thought was going to be much higher, thanks for all the input and once again my hats off to Halls parts deparment:)
 
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