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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Water in the oil 2006 TE250

M

MarkC

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have a TE250 (300 Athena actually) with about 3000 trail and fire road miles. It hasnt been ridden at all in the past year and when i started it up this morning, it was blowing white smoke until a little warm. Did an oil change and discovered water in the oil...and radiator level was abnormally low. :(

it got pretty hot the last time i rode it (a year ago), so i figure its not just a fluke...I've got a problem.

Question is what will need to be fixed?

It still runs quite strong (ran it around the neighborhood before changing the oil) with no evidence of being down on power.

Thanks for any input. I was going to sell the bike (not being ridden) so am a little bummed at having to since a ton of money into the engine.

Thanks.

Mark.
 
Getting the motor real hot could have fried the water pump seal.

After cooling down, the head bolts may have gotten loose, that happened to me.

Could be a leaking head gasket, you should be able to pull the head with the motor in the frame, get the same thickness head gasket that is in it, you'll need to get a 300 Athena gasket I believe.there may be a possibility for 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2 mm, to make up for different deck heights.
 
So...I let the oil settle and discovered very little water actually there after all. I ran two more batches through the engine today, running around the neighborhood. Got it good and warm, then let it cool both times. By the final batch of oil, it came out clear. The radiator is now also operating at the normal level (in and out of the recovery tank) with no loss. So I am stumped.

Tomorrow I'll do a compression test and pull the water pump for inspection, but right now it almost seems the water somehow infiltrated via pressure wash or something. Unless a seal shrunk from all the time sitting. But for right now, it seems to have healed itself.

I feel better...kinda...still worried though.

Mark.
 
My 2010 TE250 did this. It was the water pump seal. It was sitting out a bit. I also noticed the shaft was a little 'rubbed'. I replaced the shaft, seal and bearing (and the gaskets). I had to flush out the oil about 6 times. Husky dont run a seperate oil and water seal, so when the water seal dies, water has nowhere to go but into your motor. I also noticed there was no nut on the impeller shaft! It had come off and went into the cooling system somewhere. the impeller had worn a bit rubbing on the outer housing. Once the shaft and seal were replaced it was all good. Parts were cheap and it was easy to do.
 
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