• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Water pump pitting

Q

Quimo

Husqvarna
B Class
Pulled the transmission cover to change gasket on my new to me 86 400 XC and decided to change coolant and O ring for the pump housing as there was a slight external leak. When I opened it up the magnesium (?) looked pitted and with a little white built up in some areas (see attached). I saw in a previous thread that some folks suggested using epoxy to seal it up and was wondering if a West Systems epoxy will do the job (have extra from various fiberglass projects) or if something else would be better. Do you just encase the pitting or does it need to be treated first.

Also, the oil came out looking like this (see attached) and while it’s not quite the milky coffee I would expect with significant coolant leakage, wondering if this sufficiently troubling to go through the trouble of replacing any seals that I can?
 

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pull the pumpshaft out and glass bead the surface then slick it over with JB weld or 2 part epoxy.
 
There is a drain hole somewhere under that pump assembly. Probably to get coolant out instead of going into the clutch/transmission oil.
 
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