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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

air box bolts spinning

ghte

ghte

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Silver bullet once wrote that he spun them out with an air gun. I gather a high speed drill could do the same. The question is do you spin out anti clockwise? I know its a dumb question but I want to get it right.
Cheers guys.
 
I've got one that spins, near the bottom.
I can still squeeze the filter out from the top and wipe down the inside. For now...
 
Thanks guys. Unfortunately my spinners are evenly distributed so no sneaky sliding in or out for me unfortunately-dang.
 
ghte said:
Thanks guys. Unfortunately my spinners are evenly distributed so no sneaky sliding in or out for me unfortunately-dang.
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I've had similar situations where I drilled the head off the bolt to get the panel off, then locked a set of vice grips on the plastic surrounding the spinning nut to back out the rest of the bolt. Then drill/pin/epoxy/whatever it takes to lock that nut back in place and use a new bolt with a little anti-seize on it.
 
Hi Glen,
I'm the bloke on the 630 who had a chat with you a couple of years ago at Zig Zag. I just got my bike back from Northside Motorcycles today after a month of them trying to figure out how to solve the airbox spinning nuts problem, plus a few other issues.

They ended up drilling out all of the screws & putting in new bolts from the rear, welded/Devconned in somehow, so now I have nuts to undo instead of screws. I haven't checked what it looks like yet as I've been working all afternoon, but I'm very much looking forward to being able to perform this basic air filter maintenance for the first time in 3+ years!

Regards, Russell
 
Hi Glen,
I'm not sure what the cost of that component was as I had a fair bit done, including:
New chain & sprockets
New rear tyre
Fixing "spongy" clutch
Service
Fixing problem with metal oil strainer that perished leaving lots of metal in oil
But I believe the main time consuming part was trying to devise the air box fix. They had the bike for 5 weeks, which would have added to the cost.

The cost itself was just under $2200, $1500 of that labour, so not a cheap exercise.

I've attached page one of the invoice which describes what they did to the airbox.



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Lol i had same issue i tried a impact driver no luck high speed drill yep no luck again so thought bugger it got shot of the whole thing rollin wid a 45degree uni filter probly lost little on the low down power curve but nothing noticeable 20160726_165626.jpg
 
3 of mine came out as well. Put them back in using gorilla glue and, so far, they have not loosened up.
 
Retro said:
Try this. remove the complete plastic air box and put it in the freezer for a hour then quickly before it thaws try to remove the bolts. I red this somewhere else on another Cafe husky thread maybe it will work. I luckily only had one seized so I ground a drill to cut in the left hand direction
and it actually unscrewed as i was drilling it. To stop this happening again I made stainless steel sleeves that go over the plastic posts where the brass threads are located. I hope this can be of some help. Let us know how you go. I'l try and post some pictures later today of how they look now.
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