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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

WXC 350 Low Compression

roblit79

Husqvarna
My WXC 350 has low compression, about 90psi. It is very hard to start. When I can get it to start, one of the header pipes glows cherry red. I'm wondering if I have a burnt exhaust valve and if it could cause the my loss of compression? I'm going to start tearing down the top end and have a look.
 
I was wondering if compression release is not letting intake valve close completely? Is the cherry red pipe on the same side?
 
I checked the compression release and it is not holding the valve open. I also checked the valve clearances and they are within spec. The cherry red pipe is on the other side.
 
I did a leak down test and it is leaking pass one of the exhaust valves. I went and bought a better compression tester than the one I had. I rechecked the compression and can only get 110psi. Looks like it is time for a valve job.
 
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