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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

310 oil return

Oh, didn't look at your photo closely enough - never tried to remove that one.

Can't imaging them using permanent Loctite on such a part but who knows. Can you get a deep socket on it and then give your socket wrench a quick, firm whack with a dead blow hammer?

If that doesn't work you might try very carefully to apply some heat - preferably with heat gun rather than open flame.

Failing that my last-ditch approach to removing obstinate bolts generally involves vice grips, a ball ping hammer, and lots of swearing. Works every time (eventually). Of course the bolt is left mangled.

Good luck and sorry to have misunderstood your previous post.
 
Angus said:
I would try tapping hard on the nut portion in combination with some penetrating oil.

I recall mine felt like it was overly torqued on my first oil change but it did come off using an open end wrench and without rounding the shoulders.

You really must get it removed in order to clean the small, cylindrical screen filter. Unless you have a super-skinny pinky you can make a very effective (and cheap) filter remover "tool" by bending a small kink in the pointy end of a ty-wrap.

Second picture taken during my first oil change - performed after putting about 2 hours on the clock. Good luck.

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Angus -

Regarding the photo on your post. Do you have a separate oil drain plug with a magnet - different from the port with the screen? I don't have the magnet on our 2012 TE310 drain plug to take out the metals, but would really like the option.

Anyone know a way to use a drain plug with a magnet on the 2012's? or a way to add a magnet to the oil filter set up?
 
The previous owner on my 2012 changed out the drain back and was just venting it to the ground. I couldn't take the oil slick on my trailer at the end of a ride so I changed it back. He had also removed the oil drain plug along with the mesh filter and installed a plug with a magnet. You can't have both the metal filter and a magnet I think due to the space and the way it fits. After reading a bit on this site I decided to add back the metal filter, and reinstall the drain back system and went with the zipty 2nd gen they just came out with.I've had it on for a week, took it out yesterday for a good ride and happy to say. NO OIL ON THE TRAILER, :applause:

Zipty also makes a magnetic oil filter cover but I don't think it works with the 2010-13 models, you'd need to check with them on that. I've found some times they haven't gotten around to updating the year info on the products. If it does that would be the best spot.

Joe
 
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This is what's left of my oil drain barb when I drained my oil over the weekend! :banghead:
I`m deff gonna get the oil drain mod from Zip Ty Racing!
 
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