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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Sump Plug

Z

zambo

Husqvarna
AA Class
Has anyone had a stripped thread for oil drain plug TE310. Changed oil today tightened plug and it did not feel good I think it will be stripped next time I change oil. Can a recoil fix it.
 
I've never stripped mine but I think you can damage the threads if you forget to put the washer/gasket back on.
 
Thats what happened to mine I dropped the washer into the oil drain pan. I had already screwed in and tightened sump plug before I realised when I went to put it back on the plug felt tight to screw in like the thread was damaged it might still be alright? I hope.
 
zambo said:
Thats what happened to mine I dropped the washer into the oil drain pan. I had already screwed in and tightened sump plug before I realised when I went to put it back on the plug felt tight to screw in like the thread was damaged it might still be alright? I hope.
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Might be OK.
When you remove the plug, visually check the internal and external threads then check them again before re-installing. If they're burred over you'll have to clean them up.

Cleaning up the plug thread is easy with a triangular file, but it's best to use a tap for the internal thread. Take it to a shop if you don't have the right size tap.

I might all be good anyway.
 
It can be an easy fix, whether it be a recoil or next size thread without taking anything apart. After draining the oil, drill the tapping drill at a slow speed with grease on the drill bit and dont push the drill bit too far beyond breaking through its full diameter, put grease on the tap as well when tapping and you can catch and remove all swarf without it entering the engine case. Refill and redrain the old oil just to ensure any swarf is flushed out. I have successfully achieved this on my sons bike.
 
Thanks for the replies I will do this on next oil change. I have fitted a recoil on my sons KTM on his oil level plug. It worked but was a bit tricky becauce it was not a very deep hole and recoil tap I used was a taper a plug tap would have been good on this job.
 
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