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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

How Screwed am I?

Just as a suggestion put a magnet on that piece just to find out if it's ferrous or not. Won't tell you necessarily where it came from but it should help narrow it down.
 
It was attached to the magnet on the plug, it's ferrous.

I took the cases off today, and all looks good. Seriously there looks like NO wear on the teeth, cam chain etc.

The Cam Chain deflects a bit, but I don't think it slaps, (and I'd hear that right?)
 
rajobigguy;74413 said:
I would listen to George and pull the flywheel. There have been a couple of reports about magnets loosing there bond.
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And even pieces of the magnets chipping off like shale, which would be less noticeable.
 
rajobigguy;74413 said:
I would listen to George and pull the flywheel. There have been a couple of reports about magnets loosing there bond.
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Oh, I ALWAYS listen to George.:ride: And yes, he did answer my prayer on this one.:notworthy:


glangston;74512 said:
And even pieces of the magnets chipping off like shale, which would be less noticeable.
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Yeah, could be...


Stroker Ace;74596 said:
I'm guessing no metal or foreign material got into the motor when the chain poked a hole in the case????
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That's kind of what I decided it was. Last weekend I picked out the JB weld and ground it out a bit. There was a tiny chunk of Aluminum that I lost in there. Thing is, this chunk wasn't Aluminium, So I dunno what it could be.

Today, I rode it like 10 miles, and it started dying on me:eek: But I quickly decided it was an electrical issue.

<RANT>

WTF was Husky thinking!!! EVERY single connector on the bike has a lock, EXCEPT the one to the kill switch. So the Mystery remains, despite my near heart failure today.

I'm gonna pull the oil again and have a look-see and if nothing there I'm gonna fergit it.
 
When I am trying to solve a mystery like yours, I send a oil sample to a testing lab for analysis. The last samples I sent were $28.00. The report that you receive from the test lab will have a list of everything in the oil and the levels.

I buy the sample bottle from a truck/equipment dealer or shop. It comes self addressed and postage paid. The most recent ones I sent in were to Cat and I had the results within a week.

Oil sample analysis is actually a good thing to do periodically, even if you don't think you have a problem, because they can warn you of trouble ahead. Things like slight antifreeze contamination or the appearance of bearing material ETC. FWIW
 
Xcuvator;74667 said:
When I am trying to solve a mystery like yours, I send a oil sample to a testing lab for analysis. The last samples I sent were $28.00. The report that you receive from the test lab will have a list of everything in the oil and the levels.

I buy the sample bottle from a truck/equipment dealer or shop. It comes self addressed and postage paid. The most recent ones I sent in were to Cat and I had the results within a week.

Oil sample analysis is actually a good thing to do periodically, even if you don't think you have a problem, because they can warn you of trouble ahead. Things like slight antifreeze contamination or the appearance of bearing material ETC. FWIW
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Jeeze I have sample bottles in my boat for my Diesel. It never occurred to me to start checking the bike. Good idea! Thank you
 
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