2006 Fe550e runs dry and still ticking

was desert riding 3 weeks ago, went down a bad ravine, had to slide my bike down a rock face, ripped open my left side lower radiator hose, did not know it, Just by chance It was the end of my day and I was near camp, so as I rode back about 2-3 miles to camp on mostly flat ground the bike ran dry of coolant for probably a mile or more unknowned to me, got to camp and I thought my valves were loose, bike making no power and a bunch of top end noise. I shut it off and since I was staying the night for a day 2 ride I was plnaning on looking at valve tappets, but soon I saw the ripped hose I realized what had happend. So I ran into town to a KTM/berg dealer in Reno, got coolant and oil. Surprized the oil came out looking good not burnt at all, but I changed it anyways, Refilled the coolant, bled the air and bingo the bike started easy! WOW

The next day it ran great. Just checked the valve tappets today and they seemed perfect, but I did the 1/6 turn adjust just to be sure.

1900 miles, 125 hours now on my bike, I dont ride as much as I used to. The Bike is bullet proof.

still got nervous fingers when I work on the bike, I dropped my mini screw driver into the top end while adjusting the tappets, thank god it had metal in it so I could retrive it with my magnet pole.

I just haven't been around here in a while. Husaberg.org is kinda of a mechanics site, not much reason to post unless I got issues, which I never do. I had Dicks racing do my suspension. The bike is awesome now. If I was single and didn't just buy a house last year, you know I would have me a new 2010 by now. Still the 2006 is a very very sweet ride. Keepin it long time now, finally paid it off a few months ago.


thanks for saying hi. ride on .