• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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drain plug threads

disonny

disonny

Husqvarna
AA Class
The threads are stripped for the drain plug on my 78 cr250. Whats a good fix? Heli coils? Any other ideas?
 
I installed a heli-coil in mine, but I did it when the cases where apart.
I don't think it should be done to an assembled motor. To hard to keep the
metal chips out.
 
I have the motor out and the top end off. How much of a pain is it to split the cases? I have some universal pullers but not husky specific. I've split jap bikes but never a husky.
 
Splitting the cases is not much different than other engine.
Some will disagree on needing a special tool for pulling the crank back into the cases. I don't know how they do it without a puller.
I have a special tool I made for pulling the crank back in the cases. Without the tool, I'm concerned about damaging the new bearings, trying to get the crank back in.



 
You will also have to break the insertion tang on the bottom of the heli-coil, inside the engine.
Don't let it drop into the engine, it's stainless steel.
 
I'm not so sure I would go to the trouble of Splitting the Cases. If You have the Engine out of the Bike that means You can put it in a Solvent Tank and wash anything out that may or may not be left in there.
 
I have put compressed air from a vacuum cleaner exhaust through an open valve to do spark plug heli coils or similar products. Surely an air compressor with a line to the transmission breather with the regulator set to something kind of low would blow out the chips, they are magnesium, not like throwing a tooth off a gear and the chips are heavier than oil. A pipe plug and tapping the hole with a pipe tap which is tapered has been done whether it is good make your own mind up, just drill a hole in the pipe plug for a magnet I installed a magnet in the plug that came in that bike in my current avatar.

Fran
 
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