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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Contaminated oil lube system

Nathen Roberts

Nathen Roberts

Husqvarna
Recently I had an oil filter throw the lube system into bypass. The filter was plugged by small white short straw or hair like items. Any clue where these would come from ? We use both Mesh ad paper filters. This image is magnified and the filter has been "cleaned" a little with some alcohol for clarity.
This has been driving me crazy for a bit now and would really like some answers. Tinken posted a pic of a filter of something very similar in a filter.
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I had a similar issue many months ago, it happened only once, and went away, no lasting damage, never did figure out what the heck that stuff was.... 2010 TE450

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We're currently discussing polymerization of the oils. But the oil grade we use is so high, Its just hard to see it. We've run the board thinking of different causes with no solid conclusions. We've even discussed other filters. As this system has at least 2 mesh and 2 paper in it. Thinking its going to have to go to chem analysis to figure it out. If anyone else has a solid answer, I'm all ears. If we figure it out, I'll post it.

And yes, this system is not a motorcycle, but this was the first time I've seen anything like it was on here. So i had to try. Before I lose my last couple marbles. :p
 
Thank you! I'm guessing that its just a part somewhere in a filter it let go a bit of it somewhere. So the filter may in fact "look" in tact but missing a little bit somewhere. I'd also assume it'd only get worse over time as well. Appreciate the time gentlemen, now to figure out what one it's coming from. Time to get elbow deep in it!
 
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