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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2000 SM610 Head gasket failure

J

J8food

Husqvarna
So, I have been having trouble starting my Husky basically since I got it. It's an E start only. I put a new plug in it, checked the flywheel weights, cleaned the carb, checked for spark, and checked the valves. While I was pulling the radiators to check the valves there was no coolant in either despite the overflow being full. I filled it with water and tried to start. It was pumping water from the radiator cap, overflow bottle cap, and a head stud while cranking the motor, but wouldn't start. I tightened the head stud and it fired up for a minute or two and died.

The oil is not milky at all. Am I correct in thinking it's the head gasket?
 
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I have a 2008 model, but, watching the picture you posted, my engine seems to be very similar to yours.
J8food said:
Am I correct in thinking it's the head gasket?
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I'm afraid that you're right.
There are also these two points in which oil and coolant can be mixed:

In the water pump area:
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Around this little tube (which is reversed, in this pic):
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But you wrote
It was pumping water from the radiator cap, overflow bottle cap, and a head stud while cranking the motor
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, so IMO the head gasket is damaged.

EDIT: It's weird that the oil was not milky at all. I guess that it looks milky if it's mixed with coolant, while water evaporates and goes with the oil vapour in the air filter, without leaving residues in the oil.
When you wrote that it pumped water from the radiator cap, did you mean that the radiator was not closed or that it was closed and the cap leaked?
 
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