• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    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!

Something in the oil filter?!

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husqw

Husqvarna
Hi!
Today i was changing oil to my new husky 450 te (which i bought as used one few days ago) and noticed that there was quite big pieces of unidentified material. Three bigger pieces founded at bigger metal filter but there was smaller pieces at the thinner metallic filter.

Now I am afraid that there's something serious damages inside of my husky's engine! Please help me to indetify those pieces!

PICTURES at #3 posts
 
Not sure how to show the pictures you are trying to show in a post, dropbox does not seem to lend itself to doing that. You could attach the pics directly to a post if you want.

For the record photobucket and many other sites work just fine for showing pics.
 
I'm sorry. I uploaded the pictures again and hope that you will see them :)
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EDIT: If this help, I can say that just before oil chande I noticed that the clutch fluid level was very low. So my clutch didn't work as great as it should. Now I'm thinking that those pieces might be from my clutch? What should I do next??
 
To me it looks like the red sealant they use from the factory between the case halves. Is the material rubbery? If so you have nothing to worry about, it's just excess silicone breaking free from the seams.
 
Looks like clutch material possibly that's decomposing off a plate and makes sense you are then low on fluid. Could be sealant too.
 
Thanks for replies! :) I examined the material more carefully and noticed:
- it's quite hard but you could break it with your fingernails
- when breaking the material, it will reveal as white (or little pinkish) at inside, so it's burned as on the pictures

I'm pretty sure that I just keep going as there isn't any strange sounds or malfunctions with my engine. Maybe I switch oils after few hundred kilometers and check if there are more scrap on my oil filters. No metal so far - so just keep riding!
 
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