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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Oil Pump Cover Leak - Replacing Parts Question

jtemple

jtemple

Husqvarna
Pro Class
As some of you know, my new TE630 has been leaking oil around the oil pump cover since I got it. I have replaced all of the seals twice, and even tried gasket sealer. The leak has slowed considerably, but is still seeping.

Anyway, Hall's shipped me a new clutch cover, oil pump cover and seals, free of charge. Here in an hour or so, I'm going to replace the whole works in hopes of finally stopping this leak once and for all.

Supposedly, you aren't required to use gasket sealer on the gasket. I pulled the clutch cover once already, in order to clean the internal oil screen (first service interval) and in doing so replaced the clutch cover gasket. No sealant was used, and there are no leaks.

I have a big trip coming up this coming weekend, and I'd like to get the leak stopped for good beforehand. I'd hate to button this thing up and have it leak again. At best, that would have me riding a leaky bike and waiting for yet another set of seals from Hall's.

The oil pump seals are pretty small. There's hardly any room on them to get a good amount of sealant on there, and there's the danger of it squishing into the oil pump internals and clogging something. But, with a toothpick or something, I can put a pretty fine bead around things.

Should I put gasket sealer on the oil pump gasket at all, or use it dry, as intended? What do you think?
 
Well, it's all put back together. I just made sure everything was clean & dry before re-assembling it. I have a new clutch cover, oil pump cover, and all oil pump seals. I took it out for a quick 45 min ride around town and it's still bone dry. I think I might be out of the woods!
 
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