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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New guy with TE610 questions

took clutch side cover off last night, as I suspected... balance shaft locked up and spun the gear off, must have been some force... I did torque the nut and even replaced the tab washer because the old one was already reused twice

Trying to hot-link the photos from Google album, not sure if it will work, and if it doesn't I can't edit posts...

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I'm kinda busy at work and spending weekends with my girl making up for time I was away, also I got a trip to Florida coming up in less than 2 weeks so Husky getting no attention, barely had enough time to pull the clutch since I came back.
 
This is epic, got to leave for work at 7 tomorrow (on my husky) but stayed up until 11 reading this thread!

I'm planning to do a top end rebuild on my old 2001 610, gotta pull the motor from the frame to get the head off first!

I love a good build thread, well done!
 
Flynn said:
This is epic, got to leave for work at 7 tomorrow (on my husky) but stayed up until 11 reading this thread!

I'm planning to do a top end rebuild on my old 2001 610, gotta pull the motor from the frame to get the head off first!

I love a good build thread, well done!
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Thanks! Glad someone finds it entertaining :)

I removed the top end from mine with motor still in the frame, but I suppose it's easier to have it out on the bench, unless you have a lift. One disadvantage of having the motor out is that it moves around when you trying to torque the bolts, getting proper torque on head bolts was simply impossible so I used the lift, using the front wheel chuck as a vice on the rear part of the cases where swingarm bolt comes through.
 
Thanks for replying Matpoc.

I am wondering how to access some of the bolts with a torque wrench when the engine is in the frame. I can imagine the head of the torque wrench not clearing against the cylinder barrel.

I believe there are two small head bolts on the side of the cylinder head that go in upside down which look like they would pose a problem with a torque wrench. Perhaps an extra long 1/4" extension might be required.

Also, when I tried to pull the head on my bike the jug came up with it and came off the piston, now I can't get enough clearance to pull the head nor can I get the jug back on the piston, hence the idea of pulling the engine from the frame.

Gotta replace the cam chain on my new one first though!
 
Flynn said:
Also, when I tried to pull the head on my bike the jug came up with it and came off the piston, now I can't get enough clearance to pull the head nor can I get the jug back on the piston, hence the idea of pulling the engine from the frame.

Gotta replace the cam chain on my new one first though!
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Cam chain was easy :)

Did you remove all the small bolts? there are 4 head studs, 2 more upside down studs with nuts under the intake and exhaust (Used "crow's foot" to torque them) then 2 small allen screws on the chain side
 
Rode to FL by way of Deal's Gap, made it all the way to Key west before leaving my R1100S in Miami area and flying home with my 8 year old who was spending summer with my Dad.
less than 3 weeks later I went back to Deal's gap for the eclipse... that was some experience!!

needless to say TE is not getting any love... but I did pull the left side cover and starter support out, left side lock nut backed off as well and was jammed against the starter reduction gear, came off probably because when beading failed the balance shaft was bangng on the gear and just spun the nut off from contact friction. I'm gonna get to it soon, but for now trying to enjoy the weather


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Great thread... turns out we were really close to passing you through Newfoundland and Labrador, going the other direction in 2017... we did the gravel section from Goose Bay to Blanc Sablon overnight and we’d been going non stop since Manic 5... it was brutal.

there are some valuable tips in your thread that I will be mindful of while going through a 610 being picked up this Sunday. It’s high miles and there appears to be very little history on it. Should be fun. Cheers, Orion
 
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