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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Total noob question, '13 tc250

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duck851

Husqvarna
I did search so please don't flame me.....oil change question on an 2013 tc250.
the bike has an Allen head drain plug at the bottom of the engines sump as well as a hex head bolt at the back of the engine. The workshop manual makes no mention of the Allen head drain plug when doing an oil change. It only mentions removing the hex bolt and screen at the back of the engine.
Why is the Allen head plug there? Do I need to be concerned about removing that plug on any regular basis?

The bike literally has 4-5 hours and I noticed the previous owner has almost stripped it. Damn thing looks like a Torx head now, so I'd prefer to never remove it if there is no need.....

Thanks for any insight!

Jake
 
I had the same questions for my '13 te310. People set me straight here. You can drain from the allen, but initially and probably once or twice a year you should drain from the hex to clean that screen as well (kinda like the wr yamahas). The '12 and earlier models did not have this additional allen drain point.
 
Thanks for the reply. I was able to remove the Allen head plug and replaced it with a magnetic hex plug. I did notice some "larger than comfortable" chunks of metal on the magnetic plug when first removed. Not your typical shavings unfortunately. Also, one of the bolts for the oil filter cover was stripped, couldn't back it out, just turning. I guess I am going to have to re-tap that, but not sure what to do about the metal I found.
 
Above is the only picture I took. Those three pieces were stuck to the magnetic plug. As well as a good amount of metal filings stuck to it as well. I wasn't concerned about those as I assume they are from break in. But with that said the filings were more numerous than any other new bike I have ever broke in. Another strange thing the oil screen was perfectly clean. I would think I would have had some filings in it.
 
I would guess Oil Pump Drive Gear Teeth ??? Had this on my 310.
Remove Clutch side Casing and inspect small Double Gear between Crank and Oil Pump ?
 
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