• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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suprize

suprize

Husqvarna
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Ive stripped the lower bolt holding the clutch cover on and drip drip drip...

any suggestions for a semi safe fix? ive thought i might lash the gasket with goo (a loctite or silastic)

i could fill the offending thread with a supa metal and retap or i could helicoil..

Im thinking heli coil for a more permanant fix but i havent time to rip the thing apart and im not sure i can get a straight run at the thread with the motor in the frame.

so any temp solutions will be appreciated from the collective mr fixit's

any ideas???

Cheers
 
A 'Wire thread insert' (Helicoil) is the best way. Seek out an engineering business or buy a kit. M6x1.0 pitch x 2D is what you need to look for. The 2D is 2 x the thread diameter in length (of insert). You could ask for 3D, but they are more difficult to find. So 2D gives you 12m/m of new thread length.

Hope this helps!

Andy Elliott
 
hva-factory said:
A 'Wire thread insert' (Helicoil) is the best way. Seek out an engineering business or buy a kit. M6x1.0 pitch x 2D is what you need to look for. The 2D is 2 x the thread diameter in length (of insert). You could ask for 3D, but they are more difficult to find. So 2D gives you 12m/m of new thread length.

Hope this helps!

Andy Elliott
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Yes, do that
 
As Andy says .... Helicoil it. You will only regret it later if you bodge it now. If you have to remove the motor to do it, then that is what is required. Not a long job to pull it anyway.
 
Lay her on her side so she does not leak, clean with degreaser and add silicone. Allow it to cure and away you go. Why mend it properly when you can bodge!
 
yeah you can get a 3 pack at the hard ware store for ten bucks .
mate has one on the manifold flange on his land rover . think hes up to #4 now ...
 
Sh$t how many solutions to a problem can there be!. i will go the Helicoil i think purely on a do it once/right basis that i have never followed before!
 
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