• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Found this in my mesh oil screen

pull the valve cover for inspection its worth a look dude, an 4 bucks could buy the bearing if it is that this is just speculation but its your moter.
i just know with my luck it would be junk if i rode on without checking...
 
On pulling the valve cover... what would you look at that these bits could come from? They are really thin metal I can't think of anything under there like this. Hey, I'm happy to pull off a cover, that's easy. But not sure what to look at that this could be from... (besiders, erk, maybe a bearing cage). Knock on wood, cause that's not easy to inspect.
C
 
Found this pic on the valve adj thread as I looked at pulling the head. (ignore the arrows as they are not relevant to this discussion)
exhaustcamhardware-jpg.7948


I see that bearing in the timing gear, but nothing looks like thin metal like I've got. Actually, that looks more like a solid machined metal cage (like a wheel bearing) as opposed to a thin pressed steel one. No way my bits came from that.
Is there something else to look at under this cover?
 
Follow up. Took the bike to the desert and put a hard 50 miles on it. Changed the oil, looks fine. Rode another 50 and still great. I've guessing the bits were some swarf that may have been in there since new. At any rate as it's going fine I'm just going to forget about it. ;-)
Carl
 
Nice! It's easy for us to say screw it go ride when it's not our bike...

Sounds like you may have gotten lucky. It's good to know that we've got a good place to bounce these kinds of questions off others before breaking out the tools or wallet!:cheers:
 
Nice! It's easy for us to say screw it go ride when it's not our bike...

Sounds like you may have gotten lucky. It's good to know that we've got a good place to bounce these kinds of questions off others before breaking out the tools or wallet!:cheers:
 
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