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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Out of Hibernation.

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overbomber

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi, I posted this in the older single cam section but with no success, so here goes in this section.

I'm in the early stages of rebuilding and renovating my TE610e (in SM trim) - I dismantled it 11 years ago and due to work, life, wife, kids and other projects getting in the way etc it's remained in boxes for all this time. Any advice on the motor? It's been dry stored and gathering dust for 11 years too - it was running just prior to the big sleep and has only done about 1400 miles. What do you recommend I do to the motor? Top end strip, new rings, strip and rebuild clutch etc? Someone suggested replacing the water pump seal too.

Any advice gratefully received, cheers, Phil ;}
 
Do all seals, double check the manual and clean everything off thoroughly.

Don't lose patience either as it all came out one way so it's all going to go back in.
Lastly enjoy nothing like a good rebuild to focus the mind specially after that length hiatus.
 
mekanik said:
Store at my house for the next 11 years?
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It's already spent too much time in boxes and the attic - time to awaken the beast. Thanks for the offer to keep it at your house but it really should be braaping about with me holding on for dear life!

So, seals it is, and anything else that looks suspect.

Cheers for the advice.
 
I suppose buying, or downloading if it's available, the workshop manual wouldn't be a bad ideal to get the ball rolling either.
 
Halls are a sponcer on here used to have them on their site in PDF.
Not sure if they still do but worth a look
 
Sod rebuilding the whole thing, just turn it over by hand a few times, crank it on the starter a few times to get the oil flowing then fire it and let it idle for 5 minutes, check for leaks and ride.

Why waste time taking it apart? You are more likely to introduce faults by taking working things apart.
 
Flynn said:
Sod rebuilding the whole thing, just turn it over by hand a few times, crank it on the starter a few times to get the oil flowing then fire it and let it idle for 5 minutes, check for leaks and ride.

Why waste time taking it apart? You are more likely to introduce faults by taking working things apart.
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Wish you would read before posting.

He took it all apart 11 years ago.
It's in bits already dude.
You doc brown or something take us back 11 years dude tell him no thats a bad idea, whilst your there do me the lottery numbers too
 
Ah - the motor is complete, not dismantled - it's the whole unit less carb, as removed when the rest of the bike was dismantled. Sorry, maybe my initial post wasn't exactly clear. The whole motor is in one piece, or lots of smaller pieces all bolted together into one big lump - it's not been run in 11 years but it's not in bits (yet). I feel a top end and clutch strip down and inspection are the least I can do.
 
Well in that case, Flynn your correct.
Just check compression and cam chain wear on gears etc.
Look at bore 1400 miles is what 100 -300 hours. So top end check valves stem seals.
 
I'm not going to pull it apart for the sake of it - however as we all know, things can go wrong through lack of use as well as overuse so a bit of kindness and care won't go amiss. Top end for sure, just to be safe.
 
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