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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Who should do my head? (huh-huh...)

dfeckel

dfeckel

Husqvarna
AA Class
Well, my long-festering starting issues have finally been revealed to be caused by valves. My right-side intake was TIGHT! Couldn't get a feeler in, and the thinnest shim I had (a 2.00) still didn't get me in spec. So it's time for a valve job. The question is, where to send it? Where's a good, reputable, knowledgable Ti valve head shop (huh-huh)? Maybe a little mild porting at the same time, you know, since it's already in the right hands?

I just finished reading through a thread on TT about some unfortuante bloke in the UK who had his new Ti valves ruined by having them lapped on installation, and I TOTALLY want my valves to last more than 15 hours. So where should I send it?

Also, is it likely that all the valves will be done at the same time? If one goes, are the rest suspect? Is there a way to check the health of the other, in-spec valves? Should I just send the head with valves intact and trust the tech?

Anyone with experience on this topic, especially regarding Husky valves, please tell your stories, good or bad!
 
If you were on the right coast um I mean west coast.

And lived up here I'd say MonGoose cuz there ain't no better.:D

Sorry I know that doesn't help you.:cheers:
 
Thanks for the info. I guess I could consider sending it to The Great White North, but it just might be a little easier to keep it CONUS. I'm going to my favorite Husky shop today to pick up the new acquisition, so I'll ask them what they suggest. Anyone else have good experiences anywhere?
 
Honestly this might be the first time the topic has come up - "need valve job where to send".

I'd be temped to at least call Halls. I specifically asked eddie (TT mod) and Ron Hamp (MI) a while ago and they don't really do Huskies.

Maybe the east coast people have suggestions?
 
I spoke with Scott and Chris at Toytech Cycles in Grantville, PA when I went to pick up my CR, and I got a warm fuzzy from them about letting them redo the valves. Chris knows all about Ti valves and they have lots of experience with a very good machinist for resurfacing the seats. So, once I get tired of fooling around with putting enduro gear on my 125 and finally get around to pulling the head off the TE, then I'll probably just send it to them. But I'd still love to hear suggestions...
 
You might wanna PM Kelly (AKA Ride AKA Motorsportz) IIRC He highly recommends someone he knows. I can't recall the name though. :doh: :excuseme:
 
You could use Ferracci also. They do a lot of in-house motor work. You aren't far from there and can go in there and talk to Eraldo personally.
I agree, Toy Tech is a great shop. Scott and Chris know their Husky stuff, and super to deal with.
I don't think you can go wrong with either place for head work.
 
Thanks for the suggestion. The problem now is I'm having too much fun screwing around with my new 125 to actually pull the head off the TE...Maybe next weekend...
 
I went with Dave Hopkins. Good service, quick turnaround, and when he was done, every shim was a 2.10mm! Of course, I still haven't installed it, but it looks fantastic.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top