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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Sooo, I walked in to the shop today...

RDTCU

RDTCU

Husqvarna
Pro Class
And found a puddle of oil under the 630. Looks like the shifter seal....

So who all here has replaced theirs, and do I need to do the bushing/bearing while I'm at it?
 
RDTCU said:
And found a puddle of oil under the 630. Looks like the shifter seal....

So who all here has replaced theirs, and do I need to do the bushing/bearing while I'm at it?
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FYI, Uptite sells a custom machined bushing ~$10 that fits over the shifter shaft between the lever and case. According to George it supports the shaft and keeps it from get sloppy with use/wear. Sloppy shaft would be sloppy seal interface and quicker to start leaking.

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jtemple said:
If you go the Uptite route, let us know how that goes. Subscribed!
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Uptite bushing is for prevention. Once you have a leak already then a new seal will be the only fix. However you might try the old fork seal cleaning trick. Wash the area real good and get a very small/thin piece of plastic or 35mm film and work it around the seal shaft. Might push out a grain of sand or dirt which is allowing it to leak.

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I had mine replaced under warranty by the dealer. So, no personal experience. However, I spoke the tech who did the work, he said it was easier than on KTMs, I think because the whole cover does not need to be removed to replace the seal.

Might try the warranty route if you can?
 
Gave George a call, he described the bushing he uses and said since I have a lathe I should be able to crank one out myself after I check or replace the seal. The slop isn't all that bad, but it's apparently enough to let grit in and/or oil out...
 
Film trick didn't solve it, getting Upstate Cycle to send me a seal. What's the easiest way to get the seal out without splitting the case and removing the shaft?
 
Replaced a few shifter seals (not Husky) over the years by hooking the seals out with a small screwdriver. Sometimes you have to bend the tip to get it under the seal. All of them have popped right out with very little effort! Take care not to gouge the shaft when hooking the seal out.
 
Seal should be in here in the next day or two, anybody have a picture of Uptite's shifter bushing? My seal is pretty close to the outer face of the case, so I don't see that much room for it to ride... Does that mean my seal has backed out of the case some?
 
There is also a little seal puller tool that you can get at the auto parts store that works like a charm, if you dont want to modify a screwdriver
 
Upstate didn't have any seals in stock, took a week to get them. They dropped one in an envelope Monday so I should have it today.
Pulled the old seal out last night, that was a lot less of a press fit than I had imagined... I'm used to steel-bodied seals with a sealant on the OD of a steel ring, but this thing is more like a steel-inserted rubber bushing. I'll get the new one in and crank out a solid bushing and see what happens...
BTW, drained oil for my second oil change, >2500 miles on the bike. The oil was darker from clutch material, but clean. The only thing in any of the screens was a tiny bit of the usual metal shavings and some strings of case sealant.
 
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