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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

re-Torque your bolts and screws

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I just wrote a long dissertation on this with my story from this week and my computer dumped,,,so this is the short version after riding and doing heat cycles re-torque all your engine case and cover screws and your motor mount bolts. mine were all loose some were very loose. R
 
Thanks for the reminder Robert. Not long after break in my 510 started leaking oil from the engine case. It looked like it was coming from under the starter. I was going to take it down to the dealer for a warranty issue. I started poking around and found that most of the bolts holding the case together were loose. Tightened them all up, and it hasn't leaked a drop since.:excuseme: Ken
 
As much as i love the 08 they sure have a lot of loose bolts the 04-07 models never seemed to have. Subframe and rear sprocket bolts should be checked regularly.
 
Might want to check the header bolts as well. I lost 3 out of 4 somewhere in remote Kingston Canyon in Nevada last Thankgsgiving.
At first I just thought it was getting louder due to the sound bouncing off the canyon walls, but no. I used a few spare bolts and a bolt from my airbox cover for the rest of the trip.


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WoodsChick
 
I just recently purchased a 2008 510te, what is the right lbs of torque to tighten the engine bolts, header bolts and sprocket bolts?
 
It seems pretty much necessary to give the bike a good once over every few rides.

I find keeping the bike clean and re-greasing regularly enforces this as you're visually inspecting almost everything. I tore down the swingarm/linkage a while back for maintenance and found a bolt had come loose and was cutting a groove into the wishbone on the linkage.
 
Something else that is often overlooked (well, I did anyway!) is the chain rollers.
Mine looked fine, with no grooves etc, but when I took the chain off for cleaning, I happened to spin one of them, or at least tried to.
They were both seized - not solid, but enough to stop them spinning properly.
Half an hour with penetrating fluid had them spinning freely again - obviously the seals aren't too good.
I do spend a fair amount of time in mud and water (not always upright either!), and the pressure washer can't be good for them, but it has made a big difference to my bike - I had an annoying rattle on it that I just couldn't pin down. After freeing the rollers, it was nice and quiet again

Mike
 
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