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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Help skewer inside head

J

Jish

Husqvarna
A Class
I'm seeking advice on how to remove a piece of bamboo skewer sitting on top of my piston.
I had a bamboo skewer (1mm thick) in my spark plug hole to see TDC and managed to snap it, leaving the broken bit (?5cmx1mm) sitting on top of the piston.

Short of buying a $140 camera scope, I was thinking of turning it over until the intake valves are open & attempting to suck it out with a vacuum cleaner. Alternatively, might there be a chance it will just burn up when it runs with minimal damage? Fingers crossed I don't have to pull the head off!

Thanks in advance.
2006 Husqvarna TE 450.
 
As usual I've solved the problem myself. Vacuum cleaner on the intake while turning it over got the skewer bits out.
 
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