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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Uh oh, this can't be good

S

Suputin

Husqvarna
AA Class
Changed the oil in my SMR 511 today and discovered a big chunk of metal and a whole bunch of metal slivers on the magnetic drain plug. The front oil screen was clear but the rear screen also had a whole load of metal slivers. The previous several oil changes had been clear with no metal particles anywhere.

The piece of metal is dinged up as it had obviously been flying around inside the engine for a bit.

I can't figure out where it came from. It is shiny and smooth on both sides so it originally came from a flat but relatively thin (approx 1/8" thick) part. The only thing I can think of that would be roughly that shape would be a clutch plate tab.

The motor runs fine and doesn't and hasn't ever made any strange noises.

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It does look like part of a clutch plate? I would at least take the clutch casing off and see if you're right just to put your mind at rest. The mesh and the magnet are there for two reasons, to stop further damage by catching particles and to give you warning that things ain't quite right inside!
 
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