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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Sm 610s newbe!

[quote="Durruti, post: 343295, member: 14830"]
do i have to "search" there for any broken parts from the old woodruff key?[/quote]

I’ve viewed the drawings in the parts catalog of your bike and the engine seems to be very similar to mine.
When I find debris in my engine (pieces of liquid gaskets, or of clutch cups or of broken keys) I find it mostly in the twin oil filter set on the left sump.
You could think that debris wandering in the oil could damage something. The last Winter I brought the engine to the mechanic because I needed to ship the crankshaft to get it repaired, because of this issue: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=255593. I had already removed the head, the cylinder, the clutch and other parts, but I hadn’t split it: he did. So, he checked the gears of the transmission: no one was chipped, even if I had already had the clutch cup issue and a broken woodruff key. I think that those pieces were too weak to chip the gears and that probably they were shattered by the gears and the opposite didn’t happen. So, this is another reason not to use tougher materials. Unfortunately, I don't know which is the material of the OEM keys. Anyway, I suggest that you use the OEM ones, if you can get them.
 
Thnx Theo!
After 2 changes of oils in 2 days, (one failed and one succesfull) i believe that most of the derbis are out of engine. :)
I think that an OEM key will take time to be found, and i need that bike working as soon as possible cause it gets me at work and back home.

I'm guessing they are made by aluminium, but i'm not sure how stable will that be at high temps/pressure.
 
Ι went to 5 or 6 hardware stores, most of them didn't even understand what i was looking for. Pro. :oldman:
Finally found the OEM part from a local dealer (ok, from another town - shipping will cost twice the key, but i will live with dat).
 
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