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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

dipstick hijacked

Rickyme

Rickyme

Husqvarna
AA Class
Well I think so anyway.
After picking the terra up from Canberra where I had the ECU sent off for re flash I spent a couple of days riding the Brindebella area which was just fantastic. After day 1 I thought id better check the oil even though it has never used any with 50k Km on it now. I had to use pliers to get it loose which I thought strange as I never tighten it that much and do regularly check the oil level.

I found the dipstick has broken at the max mark and no sign of the 65mm or so piece of plastic.After much thought I reckon somebody flogged mine and replaced with their broken one at some stage because how would it break just sitting in the oil tank.Im really careful screwing that thing in as Ive read they can cross thread easily

Now Im kinda ok with that Ill just get a new one but
what if it did break and that piece of plastic ends up limiting my oil flow somewhere in the plumbing?
The bike runs so much better after the reflash I want to keep it forever now Id really appreciate some thoughts as to how I could find the piece if it is in there somewhere
 
You could try disconnecting all the oil lines around the oil tank drain plug and see if it pops out at all. Remove also the nylon filter.
 
sounds like a good idea
Im happy there seems to be a filter there where is the nylon filter please?
 
there's a mesh filter in the frame at the bottom of the oil tank so if it broke off inside the tank, it cannot get into the engine. That filter should be taken out and cleaned every now and then (20k km i think) anyway so you may want to check next oil change.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top