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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cheaper Oil fill plug alternative

dmw_az

dmw_az

Husqvarna
AA Class
The threads on my crappy OEM oil fill plug finally got messed up enough that I couldn't get it on properly. It was bad enough that I came up to a stoplight and noticed smoke coming up from the engine. It was leaking oil out of the fill hole bad enough that it was dripping onto the header and leaving a puddle on the ground.

I did a few internet searches and I found that there was a fancy red anodized alternative for $20 + shipping, but I wanted to find something a little more economical. It turns out most late model BMW vehicles use this same 22mm x 1.5 plug size plug on the differential. I went to my local BMW dealer and asked for a plug for a 2011 BMW X3.

$6.99 later, I had this in my hand.

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It fits perfectly and even has a little o-ring already built in.

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Good budget find! But now, how do you check the oil level? Carry the old cap/dipstick around or just not check the oil level at all?
 
dmw_az said:
It turns out most late model BMW vehicles use this same 22mm x 1.5 plug size plug on the differential. I went to my local BMW dealer and asked for a plug for a 2011 BMW X3.

$6.99 later, I had this in my hand.

It fits perfectly and even has a little o-ring already built in.

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Do you happen to have the BMW part number for that plug? I'd like to put it in the OEM/Interchangeable Parts list. Thanks in advance.
 
Well I got that $20 oil fill plug, CH discount, a nice chat with Ty and Tinken, a tour of the shop and all the products they make, got to watch the Ty master modify a rear shock, a jug of XF-2, I didn't have to pay shipping and Huskynoobee bought me a burger on the way home!

We made a great day of it!!

 
Very nice Gibster. Does it screw in easily, or does it bottom out on the frame like the oem dipstick?
 
isldtime said:
Well I got that $20 oil fill plug, CH discount, a nice chat with Ty and Tinken, a tour of the shop and all the products they make, got to watch the Ty master modify a rear shock, a jug of XF-2, I didn't have to pay shipping and Huskynoobee bought me a burger on the way home!

We made a great day of it!!

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It sounds like it was a very productive visit. Often it's nice to visit the shops if you can.

I am ordering a second jug of XF2 coolant for my DRZ.
 
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