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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE449 Lower Ring with Spring Help

F1000

Husqvarna
A Class
2013 TE449, I'm trying to fit the cylinder back over the rings. The lower ring has a spring between it and the cylinder. Of course the spring fell out from behind the ring. Now the spring seems to big, it doesn't want to compress and allow the ring ends to come together. I have not forced it all. I have the ring off the piston, and I am just trying to fit it in the groove in the ring and see if it compresses, which it doesn't want to do. What am I missing?
 
OK I got it to go on the bike, with help of my wife. I rotated the engine with the counter shaft sprocket and it spins freeley, seems good. The shop manual shows the ring end gaps being 180 degress out of sync, which I did. It also shows the end gaps on the short side of the piston, which I did. I think I got it, now TDC, and install the head and cams.
 
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