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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

stripped banjo bolt....almost??

ripnriding

ripnriding

Husqvarna
AA Class
So, I've had a couple of hours on the bike since the rebuild and was getting discouraged that the slight oil weep that I thought was Cylinder head gasket (replaced as part of top end) appeared to still leak...further inspection made me think...hmmm...lower banjo bolt may be loose? So....dummy me....take a 13 mm and give it a little tweak and yup....that sinking feeling of a stripped bolt hit hard..removed the assembly...confirmed...bits of metal taken out...so...here's the thing..I replaced brash crush washers with slightly thinner ones and voila...it GRABBED...RTV'd he hell outta it and hope that will meet the need. Anyone else strip the lower banjo bolt...I'm guessing a tap would be the next step if this doesn't hold...arrrrgh..lesson learned.
 
ripnriding said:
So, I've had a couple of hours on the bike since the rebuild and was getting discouraged that the slight oil weep that I thought was Cylinder head gasket (replaced as part of top end) appeared to still leak...further inspection made me think...hmmm...lower banjo bolt may be loose? So....dummy me....take a 13 mm and give it a little tweak and yup....that sinking feeling of a stripped bolt hit hard..removed the assembly...confirmed...bits of metal taken out...so...here's the thing..I replaced brash crush washers with slightly thinner ones and voila...it GRABBED...RTV'd he hell outta it and hope that will meet the need. Anyone else strip the lower banjo bolt...I'm guessing a tap would be the next step if this doesn't hold...arrrrgh..lesson learned.
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Make a steel replacement & wire tie it so you can be sure it won't come loose. Just my two-cents.
 
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