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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE630 Tank Cover Screw Spinning

E

Eoin

Husqvarna
AA Class
One of the tank cover captive nuts (rear / top / right) spins when I try and undo the screw. I did try when the weather was really cold and there was no improvement. what is the best way to deal with this? If I just grind the head off the screw, I'm still going to be left with the stub in the captive nut.
 
There’s lots on this...try a search. Here’s one thread:

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/air-box-bolts-spinning.83708/#post-574424

The good news is that yours is an easy to get to spot. I had one of these happen last week, on tank. As it spun I could feel a “tight spot” and simply queued up to that and then gave the wrench a sudden/snap twist. Tried that several times and the threads broke loose and the bolt came out. Whew.

Given where it’s at I may try drilling a tiny/shallow hole so that half of the hole is on the edge of the insert and the other half the plastic, then fill with epoxy (or use a tiny/short piece of rod that fits that hole and forms a key to hold it from spinning.)
 
Might also try your drill w/ socket on end and spin the sucker fast until the insert is free enough to come out w/ bolt, then re-affix w/ epoxy or something.
 
I've done the air box already. It's a good idea to get at the nut by removing part of the screw head, I'll try and cut off part of the head and see if I can get some epoxy in the spinning nut.
 
Eoin said:
I've done the air box already. It's a good idea to get at the nut by removing part of the screw head, I'll try and cut off part of the head and see if I can get some epoxy in the spinning nut.
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Yes, it’s the same issue/configuration on the tank and airbox. If it were me I’d try the drill idea: put a socket in the chuck then spin it out fast. It’ll either break loose or spin the insert free and out (and then you can epoxy it in, or affix as to your preference.)
 
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