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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Exciting Oil Leak

D

Daveradventures

Husqvarna
Hey guys,

Had a fun turn of events on the last ride; came around a corner and had the rear wheel go all squirrley on me. Pull over to see what's going on, and the rear tire was covered in oil!

I think I've traced it back to the valve cover vent having vibrated loose from the air box, but it looks like a lot of oil has come out. Is this a symptom of overfilling, or have I broken something else?

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Boy, that's a lot of oil loss! Had you recently changed the oil? It's easy to overfill these bikes, they have to stand vertical for a couple minutes before the sight glass rises to the true level.

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Did you drop the bike at all-a right hand side put down will often be followed with an oil leak. Note oil leaks always look like a lot more oil has flowed out than what has actually happened. That said and supposing you did not lay it down I would not just assume an over filled oil situation.
 
I overfilled my DRZ400 and it blew oil out of the crankcase breather and into the airbox, which drains back by the swingarm. It was MESSY! looked iike someone hosed the back half of my bike with oil.
 
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