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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE450 Bike Rebuild (orignally "Lots of metal last oil change!")

I wouldn't be surprised if the bottom end bearing life is directly affected by whether or not a balancer is installed on these bikes(450's & 510's).
 
What is the red strap for on the rear of the seat? To lift the bike onto stands or??

Thanks and very well put thread, Lots of good updates/pics
 
BCVisin;75012 said:
Here is a photo of my last oil change, and how much metal was on the drain plug magnet. I am following George's (Up-Tite) advice and going to pull apart the oil filter. I pulled apart the oil filter on my last change, and there was a lot of metal in it. I kept it and am going to shoot some photos of the filter.

I went on a ride this last weekend from Tecate to San Felipe and back. 435 miles. I am going to pull the plug and filter on my bike and shoot some photos and post those later tonight.

Has anyone seen metal like this before? What was it? What do you all think it is? I really hate to have to break the case (something I haven't done before)! I will likely just have George fix it, but I don't really have that kind of spare $$ right now.

-Blake
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Normal... pay atention only if you find "Copper" parts in oil or big steel parts in magnetic plug/strainer...
 
Ghostman;100101 said:
Normal... pay atention only if you find "Copper" parts in oil or big steel parts in magnetic plug/strainer...
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Ghostman...did you read the entire thread. It ended up being my lower rod bearing. The amount of metal I was pulling out was NOT normal.

J.R.;99741 said:
What is the red strap for on the rear of the seat? To lift the bike onto stands or??

Thanks and very well put thread, Lots of good updates/pics
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The red strap is just a "tugger" strap to assist in moving the bike, picking it up, lifting it over rocks/out of ruts. I made it myself out of nylon webbing, but you can buy them here: http://www.thetugger.com/

-Blake
 
BCVisin;100181 said:
Ghostman...did you read the entire thread. It ended up being my lower rod bearing. The amount of metal I was pulling out was NOT normal.



The red strap is just a "tugger" strap to assist in moving the bike, picking it up, lifting it over rocks/out of ruts. I made it myself out of nylon webbing, but you can buy them here: http://www.thetugger.com/

-Blake
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Sorry i only see the photos, if the crankshaft bearings are damage with clearance check if he magneto rotor is damage or the crankshaft seal in ib cluct cover is damage, is usual when these bearings have clearance. The best way is you conctat a oficial dealer
 
Ghostman said:
Sorry i only see the photos, if the crankshaft bearings are damage with clearance check if he magneto rotor is damage or the crankshaft seal in ib cluct cover is damage, is usual when these bearings have clearance. The best way is you conctat a oficial dealer
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Ghost read the whole thread motor was removed and all worn parts replaced. he already put 90 miles on the bike.......
 
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