• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

oil drain plug removal 2010 TE250

jbunceiii

jbunceiii

Husqvarna
B Class
Well I've rounded off my drain plug......

no matter what swivel or extension I use I just cant get a good bite on it. The wrench just rounds off the plug.

So...is it ok to heat the plug with a torch? its next to oil so I'm concerned its going to explode or flame up....

Any other ideas to get it off? I bought some removal tools but just cant get the angle.

I REALLY dont want to remove the engine to get it out.

h...e...l...p......
 
It's no problem at all.

but you actually wanna heat the area around the drain plug (and if you can: cool the plug off. "Dust Off" works great; "Right Guard" isn't bad).

lay the bike on the ground so you can get at it easier. heat evenly to about 200°F and maybe try one of those sockets for rounded heads or studs... and the Vise Grips as a last resort (before a chisel that is)

Have a new drain plug ready to go before you remove the old one; not too much torque (<25lbs?) when you go to tighten.

good luck
 
PITA!

The 2010's don't have the little cut out in the frame to help access the drain plug the newer bikes do. It's a tight fit in there.

Worse case if you pull the swingarm for lube you can pop off the pipe and lever up the motor pretty easy with one of the front motor mount bolts out.

Good luck
 
I rounded one off on my Beta. Decided to visit George @Uptite to get his opinion. He got is square enough to gripagain and voila.
 
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