• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Water pump housing seepage- pic, opinions please

EricV

EricV

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi all. Did a search, but having to use my phone now so not having too much luck. Looks as though it may be a loctite fix thing...hope so...please let me know what you think. It's like a thin, black, film. 630, obviously, at 1700 miles. Thanks!

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Yeah, mine does it too, but not as bad. Search around this forum and there was a gent who replaced his seals up there. I am gonna replace the seals and gaskets at the 3k mile valve adjustment when i have the tank off.
 
Common issue. Like you say remove each of the three bolts and reinstall with Loctite. So far that has seemed to stop my seepage but I have yet to clean the area real good after loctiting so not 100% sure. Those three bolts thread through and into the engines oil path so the Loctite is being used as a sealer. New seals and gaskets won't stop this.

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Huge thanks for the input. Now at the risk of getting ahead of the cart here, but...

How long are these bolts and how much loctite (and where along the bolts, if being used to "seal")? If they pass through oil passages I don't want any of the stuff getting into the oil, but probably over thinking it also (as loctite is a "dab'll do ya" thing and I'm due to change the oil anyway.) Just glad to hear it's not likely to be a bigger issue.
 
From memory the bolts were approx 1-3/4" long and are threaded about half way up. I cleaned up the threads with solvent and then used Loctite blue in stick form to cover the last 1/2" of threads. Ample amount used completely filling thread grooves. I thought about some getting into the engine oil but quickly dismissed as such a minimal amount. That's what oil and filter changes are for anyway, which I'm doing one this week so if I see any blue crayon I'll post back.

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I would be tempted to use a silicone gasket cement selectively rather than loctite which is a thread lock rather than a sealer.
 
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