Hello fellow Berggers,
I own a 2011 FE570. I have about 12 hours on the engine, it is still under warranty. I have a set of knobby and motar wheels. I've done 11 hours on the motar setup mostly on the freeway doing about 70mph(easy rides). I converted it to the knobby setup and ran it for an hour practising turns and getting the general feel of the bike in the mud(I was by myself so I was riding conservative at a local reservoir). The bike just quit. Like you hit the kill switch. It would turn over but would not start. I brought it back to the dealer(it's under warrenty). Here's what they found:
There is a plugged oil jet(one of three) in the head that sprays oil on the cam chain. The cam chain tensioner melted due to the heat from the friction of an un-lubed cam chain. The cam chain wore through the tensioner phenolic material into its aluminium backing causing a lot of fiber and metal debris. What caused the engine to quit was the intake valve rocker arm seizing open(the piston did not hit the valve, the engine passes leakdown testing). This debris may have caused the rocker to seize due to a clogged oil galley or low oil pressure. The rocker and shaft showed heat damage. The bike is repaired now but I have not picked it up yet. It took a month and many new parts(cam chain, cam chain tensioners, rocker arms and shafts, oil pump gears. I don't have the complete parts list yet. I don't know what caused the nozzle to plug (most likely something like a glob of locktight that is used extensively in assembly). I'm assuming it was defective from the factory and took 12hrs to fail. I was hoping that they'd swap in a new engine but that didn't happen. I'm really worried about this repair. I only have 2 months of warranty left. There was obviously a lot of fibrous(from the tensioner) and metal debris. They didn't completely disassemble the engine so it is unknown if there are other galleys(such as the piston nozzles) contaminated. If so what if they manifest themselves after the warranty has expired? The shop says that there are very few plain bearing in the engine that require oil to "float" the bearing surfaces. Most everything is roller or needle bearings. The assumption(I guess) is that these types of bearings are less susceptible to small metal debris(all the metal was aluminium, not hardened steel).
Anyway, due to the short time left on my warranty, I'm worried what the factory will do if problems related to all this contamination show up beyond the warranty period. I've only got 12hrs on it! The dealer said that Husaberg will not extend the warranty but I should not worry because in the past(this dealer has had several examples), any issues such as the one I'm having have been covered well beyond the warranty period. I asked if I could get this in writing, he said they will not. So I'd like to know what other's have experienced when it come to repairs beyond the warranty period due to a problem that surfaced during warranty.
Thanks
I own a 2011 FE570. I have about 12 hours on the engine, it is still under warranty. I have a set of knobby and motar wheels. I've done 11 hours on the motar setup mostly on the freeway doing about 70mph(easy rides). I converted it to the knobby setup and ran it for an hour practising turns and getting the general feel of the bike in the mud(I was by myself so I was riding conservative at a local reservoir). The bike just quit. Like you hit the kill switch. It would turn over but would not start. I brought it back to the dealer(it's under warrenty). Here's what they found:
There is a plugged oil jet(one of three) in the head that sprays oil on the cam chain. The cam chain tensioner melted due to the heat from the friction of an un-lubed cam chain. The cam chain wore through the tensioner phenolic material into its aluminium backing causing a lot of fiber and metal debris. What caused the engine to quit was the intake valve rocker arm seizing open(the piston did not hit the valve, the engine passes leakdown testing). This debris may have caused the rocker to seize due to a clogged oil galley or low oil pressure. The rocker and shaft showed heat damage. The bike is repaired now but I have not picked it up yet. It took a month and many new parts(cam chain, cam chain tensioners, rocker arms and shafts, oil pump gears. I don't have the complete parts list yet. I don't know what caused the nozzle to plug (most likely something like a glob of locktight that is used extensively in assembly). I'm assuming it was defective from the factory and took 12hrs to fail. I was hoping that they'd swap in a new engine but that didn't happen. I'm really worried about this repair. I only have 2 months of warranty left. There was obviously a lot of fibrous(from the tensioner) and metal debris. They didn't completely disassemble the engine so it is unknown if there are other galleys(such as the piston nozzles) contaminated. If so what if they manifest themselves after the warranty has expired? The shop says that there are very few plain bearing in the engine that require oil to "float" the bearing surfaces. Most everything is roller or needle bearings. The assumption(I guess) is that these types of bearings are less susceptible to small metal debris(all the metal was aluminium, not hardened steel).
Anyway, due to the short time left on my warranty, I'm worried what the factory will do if problems related to all this contamination show up beyond the warranty period. I've only got 12hrs on it! The dealer said that Husaberg will not extend the warranty but I should not worry because in the past(this dealer has had several examples), any issues such as the one I'm having have been covered well beyond the warranty period. I asked if I could get this in writing, he said they will not. So I'd like to know what other's have experienced when it come to repairs beyond the warranty period due to a problem that surfaced during warranty.
Thanks
