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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

449/511 Important Urgent Flywheel Inspection

Big Timmy said:
David,
This has happened to the G450X BMWs as well but the bolt heads have broken off leaving the shank of the bolt itself still fully engaged all the way into the holes. That head of the cap screw rattling around in there will short out and destroy the internals of the Stator and flywheel. So it's a good idea to not over tighten these fasteners. Torque to spec and use Blue Loctite or equivalent.

I have also seen Forum website posts on the stator screws themselves doing the same thing and hashing the electrical internals on the G450X Riders Forum.

Thanks for the reminder to check this out and the heads up here on CH.
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Ouch....! So it isn't a Taiwanese thing then? :(
 
dartyppyt said:
You know, I don't know if there is room in there but I'd take all them bolts out, drill them, red loc tite and safety wire them. Looks too expensive to tear up stator and these bolts on 4 stroke seem to come loose a lot?
I am not familiar with model cause I have the 310. Just a thought?
Actually, hats off to you alerting people of the issue! Makes you good person!
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The allen head bolts are very shallow, I'm not sure you'd get a hole drilled through without weakening them further....
I didn't measure the clearance while I was in there but maybe a 6mm Nordlock washer would fit underneath the head?!?

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As for the alert, it was Helmut who posted his damage up & I remembered seeing another damged stator earlier.
Their bad luck is our saviour. Sorry you guys took the pain for the rest of us! :(

This is what a community like this does though, the sharing of info helps all of us. :cheers:
 
I wouldn't select a Loctite product just by the color only. I believe 290 "green" is for assemblies already put together and is a wicking compound. The color Green Loctite alone is available in
Numbers, 609,603,640,638 and 290. Each has a different application.
 
Use green 290 loctite. Yes, it's low viscosity. It won't come loose in the hot oil and it's made for small fasteners. Red may be difficult to remove for repair without heat and that's not a part you want to heat too hot..

Engines manufactured in Tiawan, assembled in Berlin. Great engine, rebuilt over a hundred.
 
We have had the local arm of GM,Holden, here forever building our home built cars.
The main one being the Commodore which will cease production soon.

The V6 engine option uses a block made in Mexico & assembled here.
In fact all the alloytech V6 enignes for GM are currently built this way & sent to the other markets.
I still fail to understand how it can be viable to do this, shipping patrs to one country, building a product from it & shipping again somewhere else.
 
For cleaning the threads, Tinken mentioned using spray solvent. Would carb cleaner be good? Brake cleaner? What's a good spray solvent? And I don't recall seeing the torque specs for the bolts.
 
Brake & parts cleaner would be fine.(There are specialist Loctite cleaners but they are crazy expensive)
Best not to get too much of it in the engine cavity though.
Post number 7 from Helmut, for torque, 25Nm :)
 
I wish I had seen this posting. My stator is shredded one of those little bolts came loose and just destroyed it. $400 dollars plus shipping to replace it. Husky is becoming not my favorite brand very quickly
 
Scott Jensen said:
I wish I had seen this posting. My stator is shredded one of those little bolts came loose and just destroyed it. $400 dollars plus shipping to replace it. Husky is becoming not my favorite brand very quickly
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Sad to hear mate but they really are a great bike.
Yes, like most European cars/bikes I've had anything to do with there's things to watch out for but over-all they are a great machine.
 
Dangermouse449 said:
Brake & parts cleaner would be fine.(There are specialist Loctite cleaners but they are crazy expensive)
Best not to get too much of it in the engine cavity though.
Post number 7 from Helmut, for torque, 25Nm :)
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I was reminded by Scott's post to go work on this this weekend. Couldn't find the Green 290 loctite anywhere. So I picked up some red, but in doing some googling, turns out we aren't the only ones with this problem. DRZs do too: http://www.thumpertalk.com/topic/548456-stator-and-starter-clutch-loctite-fix/
The first post in the above TT thread recommends medium loctite for the flywheel bolts.

Unfortunately I did not get to work on this because my buddy and I ended up welding modifications for our newly acquired harbor freight tire changer with motorcycle attachment all day.
 
Guys, I'm working on this right now. I pulled out the 8 bolts. When I lift up on the cover it comes about a quarter inch off and I start to feel some serious resistance. Is it attached to a spring, or is the alternator magnet pulling back on the cover?
 
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