• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

DRAIN BOLT STUCK AND ROUNDED NEED HELP

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Owen Gilbert

Husqvarna
my friend has a 07 yz250 ( i know it's not husky but i need urgent help) and his drain bolt is rounded and stuck, we have tried vice grips, filing the sides flat but it wont move someone help!!!
 
Filing the sides flat should work.. Maybe add a bit of heat around the case. Give the bolt a few taps while putting pressure on the bolt with a wrench.
 
i use a pipe wrench the type that tightens up as you put pressure on it but make sure youve got another to replace it, heat gental tap with hammer, hang on it.

very last resort drill it bit by bit making hole larger keep as central as poss, pick all the plug thread out and with any luck you can put a new bolt in, or if you fancy a proper ball ache, split the cases helicoil and make sure of clearance wither way it would be easyer to tip bike upside down to drain an re fill with correct amount of oil... sell it quick
 
First thing I always do with a stuck bolt is squirt some Kroil on it and let it sit for an hour. For an overhead application like a drain bolt, Aero Kroil spray would work well.
 
If its too far gone weld a nut over the bolt and screw the bolt using the nut. The heat from the welding will loosen it up nicely. It worked a treat for me on my LANDCRUISER transfer case when it rounded off.
 
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