• 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

449/511 Water drain thread f'ed - how do I best repair it?

I would remove the water pump cover, and re-tap it, or helicoil it. Like McKay said, post some pics so we can see exactly what your talkin 'bout
 
Please save the 'repair in a tube' stuff for our pumpkin flavored friends, let's fix this right. This is a husky after all!:thumbsup:
 
It's simply the thread that has striped in the cover. Was thinking coil but not sure it will not leak! If I get it welded then I need to paint it as well!!

I don't have the cover (bike) at the moment but when I get it back ill post some pix
 
Thread inserts either helicoil or timeserts work great, have to get the depth correct on the sealing surface and use a gasket that extends past the insert and maybe a bolt with a wider flange. Lots of times covers don't have a large enough cast "lug" to properly accept a repair coil.......pictures pls!
 
You could either Helicoil it (if there is enough meat in the casting) or you could braze it and then re-tap it. The problem is that the threads are not in the clutch covers, but in one of the center cases. You have to remove the clutch cover, remove your clutch and remove your second clutch cover/water pump assembly to get to the inner case threads. It's not a super huge job, but it's not going to be a simple Helicoil install.
 
Got it sorted.

Just drilled/tapped it to a 6mm bolt instead. The copper washer fits the 6mm as well so and easy fix.
 
Yes, you're correct. For some reason I was thinking it was in the arrow location below. This bolt actually sits in the water stream.

water_drain.jpg
 
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