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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE 350/610 newb questions

F

Flying Aga

Husqvarna
Hi there everyone.

I've also posted in Thumper Talk but found this forum too so thought I'd give it a try... I am used to posting in BMW airhead forums where replys or almost instantaneous. Guess these Husky forums aren't as popular?

Anyway... Got a few newb questions you may be able to help out with. Many years ago I bought a TE350 and rode it about until one day it decided to spit the crank out the bottom of the engine. At the time I didn't have money, time or inclination to fix it and so put it at the back of my garage with the rest of the "projects" I vowed to one day complete. Fast forward nearly ten years and I have now decided it is time to bring it back to life. (been told I can't buy anymore bikes until I fix the ones I have)

A few e bay searches later and I bagged myself a '99 engine, exhaust and carburettor for a TE610. I have been told they should all slot straight in and off I go.

Before I start the engine up though I want to give it a quick service as I have been told the engine was sat for a while. My questions are as follows:

1. What oil should I put in (20/50?)...
2. What are the valve clearance settings?
3. What are the service intervals?
4. What is the best manual I can buy? Done a search and can't seem to find a Clymer or Haynes..

If there is anything else you think I should know or do, your suggestions are welcomed.

Also: I have a complete (but shot) 350 engine carb and exhaust that I will be breaking. If anybody wants any parts send me a PM.

Thanks everyone and I look forward to your responses!

Byron
 
Flying Aga said:
Hi there everyone.

I've also posted in Thumper Talk but found this forum too so thought I'd give it a try... I am used to posting in BMW airhead forums where replys or almost instantaneous. Guess these Husky forums aren't as popular?
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The people that come looking for help on the Airhead Forums have been asking the same questions for decades and many of the members that respond have never personally experienced many of the things they comment on but have read about it so many times are poised to answer questions as if they have.
My point is that the pool of people to answer is much larger and it is a race to sound like an expert, so the response is much quicker.
 
Hi Blair 7 thanks for the link. Will have a look at that now. Had also found a manual I can download here: http://husqvarnaoutlet.com/repair_manuals will get printing off later on today. Good luck with getting the 610 up and running.

Hi Xcuvator: you are not wrong, there are certainly a lot of shade tree experts in those airhead forums! Unfortunately a few trolls too. On the whole, good bunch of people though.

Thanks,

Byron
 
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