• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Torque settings

glangston

glangston

Husqvarna
Pro Class
A guy busted the fastener on one of the oil filter screens torquing to factory 18 ft . lbs.

What likely happened? No o-ring, dirty, too big (innaccurate) a wrench?
 
Dunno, seems some of the hardware is not the quality it once was, 07/08 or was it an 06 and earlier?

I usually do not use a torque wrench and go be 'feel'.
 
I broke one of the screws on the oil filter screen also. I was using a properly calibrated torque wrench set @ 25 Nm (about 18 ft/lb). The o-ring was there and everything was clean. I think some of the fasteners are not the "top of the line" well at least on my '07. That has been my only complaint w/the bike! I have since replaced those screws w/Stainless steel hex heads and it has held up great.
 
wow is that what the book says?? from experience that is way hi for those types,,,,we usually go @ 6 lbs/ft at most on case/cover screws.
 
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