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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

09 te stripped oil drain bolt:(

RideLI631

RideLI631

Husqvarna
AA Class
So I haven't ridden my 510 in a while and I go to dust the cobwebs off yesterday and notice a little bit of oil under my bike. Further investigation showed that it was leaking from the drain bolt. So I go to tighten and it just spins in place won't loosen or tighten. I have a feeling this is going to be a major headache to solve the issue. Just wanted to see if anyone had a similar problem and what there solution was. I could always buy an upgraded drain bolt and screen cover kit but I still need to get this drain bolt out first. Ay help or opinions greatly appreciated!
 
Well that's well and truly stripped! I'm not sure whether the drain bolt on your bike is easily accessible or not? My 250 would require engine removal to repair this, if you can't get at it nice and easy with a drill then probably best to take the engine out. You should be able to wind the old bolt out with a bit of leverage behind the flange whilst turning, once out you'll have two options. Drill out and re-tap with a larger thread and buy a new, larger drain bolt or, they way I would go, buy a helicoil kit which will include the correct size drill and coil to re-thread back to the original size and reuse the correct drain plug, i've had plenty of good results with helicoils, not had one fail yet.
I know it sounds a PITA just to sort a drain plug but there is no other permanent way to resolve. You'll need to give the engine a good flush out once done as there will be swarf in the motor.
 
Like Freaky said, leverage it out. Put a pair of vise-grips on it and pull down as you twist it out, wen a thread catches, it should come out. Then shop for a first or second over-size metric drain plug, it self-taps in. I used one on my HD years ago with no problems.

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