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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE610 Maintenance

B

Baritone

Husqvarna
AA Class
Yesterday while doing maintenance and tire changes on my 06 I was sucking on a beer and looking thru the owners manual since I hadn't done that in some while. I found two things...one of which was a major surprise that I had not noticed before.

In the "periodic maintenance" table it notes that the timing chain as well as the connecting rod should be replace at 6200 miles or 24 months and the same interval thereafter. I'm not really surprised(I guess) by the chain but the connecting rod :eek:

Since I'm pretty close to 6200 miles now I'm wondering what y'all do. Any words of wisdom?

Doug
 
Hi Doug,

I'd need to hunt through my archives but I'm pretty sure the rod replacement was an error in the manual for the 06 610. I think we had an updated table issued by the factory after we queried this.

If I can find it, I'll post a copy.

Dave
 
My 09 610 manual only said to check cam chain and nothing about con rod. I have seen the one that said that too.
 
It's a long story... Has to do with the 2yr. warranties in the other countries.... No need to worry about it. Just do your normal service and hit the trail!!! I'm at 11,000mi. and doing fine, my cct. is only at 6 clicks, I'm still on the og. clutch cable and battery. I know of 610's that have up to 20,000mi. and haven't been torn down yet. Make sure to have the beer AFTER you ride.

Happy Trails.......
 
The 610 eats timing chains because the design does not let it stretch as much as other bikes because it starts destroying the oil system reed valve in short order when it stretches.

The new 630 should fix that problem with a gear driven top end.
 
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