• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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Found this in my mesh oil screen

vintageveloce

vintageveloce

Husqvarna
AA Class
From my 2010 TE250 with about 25 hours. I had some trouble getting the mesh oil screen out of the bike... found it was hung up on some metal particles. Used a magnet to pull them out, so they are magnetic.
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Man, I hope this isn't a significant problem. But these are more than a shaving. Almost look like parts from a tiny ring or washer...
Any ideas?
Carl
 
Oh that's not good. I wouldn't even start it until you get it figured out. Ill do some picture looking to see if I can identify it
 
Ha. I'll definitely start it, and have. Its not like I just dropped this in the crankcase. I've been running the bike and just found it. The question is; is it something important, or something indicative of other things coming apart. Like if it was a lock washer and now there is a screw rattling around in there. What could it be? As shown in my pic.. I ride in the desert, and it would suck and possibley be dangerous to get stuck (alone) 25 miles out...
Carl
 
You probably have already dodged the first bullet and maybe a second ... I'd ride it and maybe look inside some of the side plates as something else might be an issue ... My bike had bend-over-type lock washer on the clutch basket that might could shave off a piece of metal that large ...

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My bike also chewed up and spit out the tab off the cam retainer thingy and never lost a beat ... I knew where the piece came from when it showed up on my drain plug though so it was not a surprise to see ...
 
Yikes! Good thing you caught it, did you drain your oil and inspect it?
(I meant the rest of the oil, looking for bigger chunks)
Probably starter debris... o_O
 
Those pieces look important . I would pull the valve cover for inspection and check your cam tensioner too. Could have somthińg to do with your oiling system. Looks bad
 
That does not look like a washer to me. I hope it's not the bearing stay or what ever you call the piece that keeps the balls in the bearing
 
What he said , possible ball bearing cage. Your bits look small so maybe the upper camchain gear bearing?? Pull the valve cover and have a look. I would not start her again until you find the source. Good Luck.
L.
 
I went by the local Husky shop and showed the pieces to the Husky expert mechanic. Like me and some of the other posters, he guesed maybe a part of a bearing cage. He did note he has found all sorts of parts in the bottom of husky engines!
Is advice was to keep the parts, ignore the issue, ride the bike hard and keep looking for more parts in subsequent oil changes. The idea being, if no more parts show up, good! And if more parts show up, bad, but maybe we can identify what is breaking up!

My original post was a curious one to see if anyone else posted; "oh yeah, that happened to me and here is what it was".

The idea of pulling the engine apart to search for the culprit (and it's possibly nothing critical) is just expensive and time consuming. If I was a racer, OK. But as I'm just a recreational plodder. Obviously something could go bang in an expensive and possibly inconvenient way... it's a risk.

So it's off to the desert...
Carl
 
Still curious to the oil you run. Some bikes just shed scrapnal and is a trademark, but is usually a warning sign for bigger things to come. I had to hike 5 miles down a mountain to the desert floor and caught a ride from a family cutting firewood once. They took me to my truck wich was another 10 miles down the road, I had to sit in there firewood trailer on top of a chord and a half. There trailer broke a axle on the final 500 yards to my truck. Point being breakdowns don't just effect you. I was riding a Husaberg 550 and the rocker arm bearings along with cam bearing caused the bike to throw the valves into the piston. Would have been much cheaper to replace bearings.
 
At least it's winter and a hike in the desert isn't so bad. But in the summer, people die out there. I think helicopter insurance is 100 dollars per year and my spot tracker was 99. No way I'm hiking 5 miles down the mountain, I'll mash on my spot tracker and hitch a ride.
 
@ Rearwheelin:
Running Castrol Power RS Racing 4T 10W-50 Full Synthetic.
Hey, I agree with your concerns about failures "out in the field". I go with a small survival kits, tools and a Inreach Satellite Communicator. And if something where to happen, I really hope my wife could rescue me without additional help. It sucks to inconvenience others with a breakdown.

That said, I don't think my shop would get through the investigation for less than alot of money. Without some other evidence of trouble , like some more parts coming out, bad sounds, etc. I just can't yet justify a teardown. For all I know, those bits have been in there since new and only now got tangled in the screen and caught my attention. Note that they where not "in the screen". One stuck in the outside of the screen and I couldn't pull the screen out. After a bunch of fiddling I got the screen out and found one bit hanging on the end (outside) and found the other bits with a magnet stuck in the drain hole. So these really could have been in there since "new"...
Carl
 
I wouldn't run Castrol in my bike if it was given to me ..... Have before in other bikes of the past, it breaks down fast. Doesn't mean is what's causing the problem here though :)
 
Maybe but it does not always break down fast in every bike... I run 1L of the stuff mentioned above and ~1\2L semi-synthetic blend... I think all this oil is dino stuff and not man-made drops..

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/950-hr-case-splittiing.23388/

Rearwheelin said:
I wouldn't run Castrol in my bike if it was given to me ..... Have before in other bikes
of the past, it breaks down fast. Doesn't mean is what's causing the problem here though :)
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If you actually think that is a bearing cage ... You better fit it now ... Pulling the valve cover or some of those side plates are a 10 minute job ....
 
Ride on brother. I say no more pieces, no more problems. It could be something as simple as a flake of metal coming off a poorly machined or cast part.
 
ten mins an piece of mind, perhaps
or ride on and junk the motor, perhaps... its a lottery and you've got the ticket!
personally i hate not knowing whats wrong or why its happend, if the bearing cage if it is brakes down you may have a ballbearing running about with all of your shiney toothed gears, an thats a major downer when 4 bucks could have prevented it!
your bike your choice but thats my two cents worth. :thumbsup:
 
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