• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 610 First service

jellyrug

jellyrug

Husqvarna
AA Class
I did the first service on my 08 at 530 miles, strictly according to the book. Linky: http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8221692#post8221692

Question to those who have serviced 610's for several thousand miles:

Do the valve clearances increase, or decrease as the miles run up?

The reason I'm asking is because I notice a lot of posts with valve clearances of 0.006 to 0.008, compared to the specified 0.002 and tearing down the bike to get to the valves is a lot of work.

The 0.002 almost seems too tight and if clearances wear tighter, really all this bike needed was an oil and filter change, throttle cable adjustment and chain and front sprocket clean and lube with adjustment. 3/4 hour at the most. If I knew, could have saved a shid load of time.

I doubt it if the dealers do all this stuff, for first service?
 
The valves seem to loosen on all 4 of the ones I've worked on. Set them at .002 like the factory says!!! Mine start getting noisey at .003. George says the swivel foot on the rocker will get damaged if they run loose for very long and we don't want that**************************************** Good you're on top of it now, keep up the good work. Take care of this bike and it will thank you every time you ride it......

Happy Trails.....
 
Saw your TT link.. Get an after market countershat sprocket ASAP****************************************! They fit a little tighter. Clean and grease the shaft like your doing and get some oil on the chain and you'll be back in first place.....


Ride on.....
 
jellyrug;36892 said:
I did the first service on my 08 at 530 miles, strictly according to the book. Linky: http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8221692#post8221692

Question to those who have serviced 610's for several thousand miles:

Do the valve clearances increase, or decrease as the miles run up?
What I have seen is that the exhaust tighten and the intakes loosen.The reason I'm asking is because I notice a lot of posts with valve clearances of 0.006 to 0.008, compared to the specified 0.002 and tearing down the bike to get to the valves is a lot of work. I have been using .005 in and .006 ex. For my 2000 model. There exist conflicting information for this year as to the valves. The service manual, the owners manual, and the spec. sticker under the seat all have different tolerances. And I was given yet another tolerance from a dealer here in this state. So I used what I thought best. .The 0.002 almost seems too tight and if clearances wear tighter, really all this bike needed was an oil and filter change, throttle cable adjustment and chain and front sprocket clean and lube with adjustment. 3/4 hour at the most. If I knew, could have saved a shid load of time.
I doubt it if the dealers do all this stuff, for first service?.002 is very hard to set, and thats one reason I went with .005/.006. That was some 4K ago and still running well but now ready for adjustment.
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After the first valve adjustment it is easy. Make a list of the tools used so you can knock it out next time
 
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