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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Failed Needle bearing and Cam is worn

North

North

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have just over 11,000 km on my 08 TE 610.

I was riding in the bush and and I felt a change in the engine and more top end noise. I brought the Bike into the shop. After checking the cam chain tension and valve clearance, they found that one of the Needle Bearings had failed. It was sunken into the Rocker Arm and the Cam had a worn spot because of this.

The head was swapped but the worn Cam was put back in. The top end still makes noise, but not as bad. I was told that I can still ride the bike, and that I should get the Cam replaced or work done to it, but it will do no damage to ride the Bike. I was also told that I could have performance work done to the Cam and it would take out the worn spot.

I took the Bike home and parked it.

What I would like to know is, is it safe to ride the Bike. And can you just retool a Cam for higher performance without knowing the engine. I mean if the valves stay open too long, couldn't they hit the piston, etc??

Thanks

Rick
 
Without seeing the parts I would be hesitant to offer a recommendation as to weather or not it is advisable to ride. So far as the cam goes I would call Uptite to see what the progress is on there HP cam. These are a proven cam design that he used for years and he was going to reintroduce them but I think he needs to know if there is enough of a market to have a few ground. You can tell George that I'll buy one to.:D
 
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