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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Has anyone replaced their cylinder head cover and it looked like this?

O

Owen J

Husqvarna
AA Class
The pic is of the LHS of the engine ('06 610) looking at where the water pump impeller sits.........

Everything is tightened back down and I didn't disturb the bush behind the impeller. I only took the cover on and off to hopefully cure an oil leak but there is now an ominous looking gap between the bush and the cover :thinking:

I don't remember if it was like this before I took the cover off but it certainly doesn't look right!

Before I tear back into it I'm hoping somebody might say it's normal...........(wishful thinking I know :cry:)
 

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How much silicone did you use??? Not supposed to use anything but a special "thin" sealant, or no sealant at all. Looks like the blue stuff isn't letting the cover come all the way down.....
 
Thanks for replying - I used the scantest smear of silicone instant gasket so that's definitely not the problem. I ended up taking the cover off again and it turns out the arc of the cover isn't of a constant radius i.e. not cast or machined correctly in the first place! Bloody Varese quality control!!!

It held water/oil ok in the first time around so I've tentatively replaced it and will have my fingers firmly crossed when I fire it up! I'll be checking my oil and water pretty soon after too.........
 
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