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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

610 oil pressure/flow to head

B

Bahr

Husqvarna
A Class
I decided to check my oil pressure after rebuilding the head and although using the starter, eventually oil started to dribble out of the fitting (not exactly rapid); when I hook up a gauge and start it, I don't get movement on the dial. Are you supposed to get oil pressure at idle (I'm not revving it up until I know it's oiling correctly)?PXL_20260314_030835629.jpg
 
If the fitting was leaking then I would think there should be some sort of pressure reading on your 15lb gauge. I'm not familiar with 610 anatomy so I'm afraid I can't be much help beyond my 2 bit comment. Did you bleed the air from the line the gauge is connected too? An air pocket will not compress and provide a reading the same as oil will.
 
The fitting was not leaking, but it's a pass through fitting that I made that allows oil to go on its normal journey to the head, it's just a tee.
I did not bleed the air; air pressure should register on the gauge the same as oil?

I mean do these bikes even have residual oil pressure at idle, or is it basically just trickling through the engine? There's no pressurised rod oiling I guess.
 
So I pulled my oil pump apart, checked clearances and then decided it was all ok so put it back together and just sent it with some revs and I got 2.5psi on the gauge with moderate revs. So it does generate some pressure, just not very much.
 
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