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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Stopping my oils leak!

Matt Crawley

Matt Crawley

Husqvarna
AA Class
I've had the Terra for a little over 4000 miles and it's leaked oil the entire time! :banghead: Drip, drip, drip off the bottom of the motor. My mission for today was change the oil and stop the drips.

Bottom of the skid plate after 800 miles of street riding.

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Top of the skid plate covered in oil from drain bolt and banjo fitting.

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The leakers.

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Matt
 
I had new copper washer for the oil drain but I did that last time and it still leaked. This time I added a very thin layer of Yamabond4 above and below the new washer. I also added the Yamabond to the two copper washers that sandwich the banjo fitting. I did not have new washers here.

The Yamabond forms a flexible seal similar in some ways to RTV. For sure you don't want this floating around in your oil so I think it is advisable to only apply to areas that are not in direct contact with engine oil, use it very sparingly, and clean it off all parts every time you disassemble. The last one is VERY important as the Yamabond seems to like to disintegrate if tightened down for a second time.

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After a 60 mile ride this morning everything is looking good.

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Matt
 
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