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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Maintenance to be done

G

Gibsail

Husqvarna
Hi all this is my first post and I am sure there is a link out there so if someone could send it to me or let's start something new. I just got a 2013 husky te449 with 3100 miles on it. It is in awesome shape has the zip Ty cooler and a few other parts. All but a few miles were on road. Now that it's mine I want to bring it up to date on all the needed maintenance. Here is want I am planning to do and my questions. Anything else I should be doing please let me know.

Oil change. What oil should I use? The guy was using mobile 1 0w40. Is this car oil or Moto specific? Reason I ask is all my Bmw motorcycles take motto specific oil. Just want to confirm.

New chain and sprockets. Any recommendations out there? Will be a mix of street and dirt. I have dirt wheels and supermoto wheels.

Clean air filter

Flush coolant. I have a bunch of bmw coolant. Can I use that?

What else? Any other mods I should make? My objective is to make this bike run forever. I will take it back and forth to work 10 miles as much as I can and do some dirt here and there. I plan to run canyon roads for fun maybe weekly. I don't mind changing oil but how often should I to keep her running for a long time? I have put on 200 miles so far and will say this bike is a blast. But now that the edge is off I want to get all the maintenance up to snuff.
 
Not car oil make sure its wet clutch compatible.
Regina chain and supersprox sprockets for me, coolents sorta universal.
Oil changes humm on 4 pop your supposed to do them more frequently and the oil filter too these are the #1 wear preventative measure on engine components. I would do it more often than not.
Check valve clearances and keep ontop of them as if outta spec damage can occur like major rebuild damage.
But im just scaring ya. Should be a good bike enjoy it.

Sure a 4pop guru will be along to slate everything ive just said lol
 
Lots of US guys here run the Mobil 1 0w40 oil. It is a car oil, but they report no issues.
My own preference is moto specific oil (A Castrol synthetic) for wet clutches.
Whatever brand you use, be sure to keep the SAE numbers low, 0w40 or 5w40 to assist flow around the engine. Run the full 1150ml of oil listed in the manual & change often.

Pull the lower shock bolt out periodically & inspect/grease the bearing, especially after wet off-road riding.
Like all bikes the wheel bearings wear quickly after exposure to water, but easy & cheap to do.

The BMW coolant will be fine for use when serviced as directed on the pack.

When changing/cleaning the air filter take the time to pull the LH side cover off to check you have seated the air cleaner housing correctly on re-assembly.
The filter takes ages to get dirty as the location keeps it from sucking in large amounts of dust :thumbsup:

The rest is pretty standard dirt-bike stuff/maintenance.

They seem pretty bullet-proof. Mine has 185hrs/5000km+ all dirt action & never been apart.

They're a great bike.
 
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