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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2010 TE450 Oil Leak?

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paulfryy

Husqvarna
B Class
Hi all,

First off - I'm a relatively new dirtbike owner, so on a scale of 1-10 on mechanic knowledge, I'm probably a 2 or 3.

I bought my first dirtbike in 10 years recently, and I love it.

But one thing that (I think) the previous owner hid from me is a slight oil leak. Now I don't even know what the spot where the oil is leaking from is called (some gasket/seal of sorts), but with the pictures I've provided, I was hoping someone could tell me some more info on it.

Firstly, is it anything to worry about? Should I get if fixed ASAP?
Or is it something I can do myself (with my limited knowledge (but I'm a quick learnerIMG_1600(copy).jpg IMG_1601(copy).jpg
P.S. Here's a picture of my bike
 
Water pump/impleller is behind the cover, the impeller is driven by the large gear that drives the 2 cams. There's an oring in the pic below that might be bad.


HuskyWPcamTimingPreserved.jpg
 
The cover on my 2007 TE 450 started to sweat and leak shortly after I bought it new in 2007. It hasn't gotten much worse over the years so I haven't done anything about it. Seems that it was fairly common on this generation of engines. The one pictured in the first post above is leaking a good bit more than mine does, so I would guess it needs a little attention if you don't want to be continually cleaning it up. Mine seems to sweat out only near the bottom though. The one pictured looks like maybe it is leaking at the top, so maybe check the valve cover gasket seal just above it too.
 
Looked to me too like potentially just the valve cover. I'd spray some contact cleaner in there and clean it then run again and check. Could be loose cover bolts too.
 
Thank you all for the input!
OlderHuskyRider said:
Water pump/impleller is behind the cover, the impeller is driven by the large gear that drives the 2 cams. There's an oring in the pic below that might be bad.


HuskyWPcamTimingPreserved.jpg
Click to expand...
I agree that it does seem like the o-ring in the bottom of that picture could be the issue. Like I said, I'm not very mechanically inclined, but replacing an o-ring should be no problem. To take off the water pump plate, do I need to drain anything? Like the engine of oil, the radiator of coolant or anything?
Thanks again for the help.
 
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