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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Advice needed

Hennie

Hennie

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi all,
I need some advice, as I'm not tecnical at all.
Last year in October, I did our local Quads 4 Quads family adventure ride from Ballito to Jhb (in South Africa), which is a charity run on dirt. Towards the end of the ride (over 4 days), I dropped the bike in extremely muddy water, and the mud and water was sucked right into the air intake on the right hand side of the 610, which ultimitely led to the evaporation of the water and the mud grinding the piston into oblivion.

So I took the bike in for repairs at the local agents in Primrose in Jhb. They did a nical replating of the barrel, with new piston, rings and valve stem seals added. Over R15K later (ZAR currency), I got the bike back, and its still using lots of oil (500ml per 150km), and smoking worse than a two stroke. I seriously doubt the machanic knows what to do, as I will be taking it back for the 4th time.

What, technically, can and should be done from here? I'm at wits end.
Thanks,
Hennie
 
Did they hone the bore first? If not the plating won't do anything (it covers everything evenly), you will still have the scoring on the walls from the dirt. I would think your best bet is simply a new cylinder housing. If it is smoking oil is getting around the rings, so you don't have a good seal.
 
I'm not exactly clear if these barrels are sleaved but my guess is that it is. All modern alloy cylinders have a steel sleeve. It will need to be re-sleaved and line bored. I am also not clear if they are plated bores or not either. My hunch is that they are not.

So basically I'm dumb, but yeah, whatever they did didn't eliminate the scoring so the rings won't seal. I would be checking the valve guides carefully as well.

This is a huskqvarna authorized repair station?
 
@Travis: Should have gone for that option from the start I suppose, but was assured that the way they advised would be successful.
@CJ: Yes, they are the biggest Husky agents in RSA (not the best necessarily), as they are also the official importers of Husqvarna in RSA. Husky is not big in South Africa yet.

For the money I have and going to spend, I may just as well bought a new engine:mad:
 
Take the bike back to them a ~4-5th time and show them their work ... Not that I'd give them any more money but they should do something in your favor as they have fixed nothing ....
 
Since it is difficult to show them your oil usage ("I have to add oil every X hundred miles" and they are thinking 'yeah, right'), you should have them do a compression test and leak down test. If the rings don't seal worth a shit the leak down will easily show it.
 
If it's smoking like a 2 stroke, they must be blind. Who would return a repair like that. They would definately know that motor was f@#ked up!! Shame on them!! They probably put the old parts back in.
 
CJ has a point about the head as well - if there was enough dirt in there to score the cylinder walls I would be worried about the valve seats and guides as well.
 
FOKOP Boet! They must tear it down again and check everything - Demand a leak down test for starters. They must make right.
 
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