Found this while doing an oil change...

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slipdog 5/16/2021 5:01am
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nine1seven wrote:
That piece is the magnet from your drain plug. To confirm, look at your drain plug you’ll see where it’s broken off. Order a new drain...
That piece is the magnet from your drain plug. To confirm, look at your drain plug you’ll see where it’s broken off. Order a new drain plug and live happily ever after. Or use your old drain plug without the magnet.
I've been eyeing this thread thinking this the whole time. Would be great piece of mind for op if you are correct.
AnimalHungry 5/16/2021 5:17am
5/16/2021 5:17am
nine1seven wrote:
That piece is the magnet from your drain plug. To confirm, look at your drain plug you’ll see where it’s broken off. Order a new drain...
That piece is the magnet from your drain plug. To confirm, look at your drain plug you’ll see where it’s broken off. Order a new drain plug and live happily ever after. Or use your old drain plug without the magnet.
I thought that but went back and looked at the drain plug and it’s intact with magnet still attached. Here it is with the piece that came out...


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AnimalHungry 5/16/2021 5:19am
5/16/2021 5:19am
Thisusernameisavailable wrote:
I thought there were far more than 6?! Double that at least??
AnimalHungry wrote:
Yeah there are 12 in the OEM clutch but 6 in the Rekluse that I have installed.
Fog 25 wrote:
Check and see if you still have have six in the old clutch?
Yeah I have 6 clutch pins with the OEM clutch I took out, and the 6 pins are still in the Rekluse in the bike.
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slipdog 5/16/2021 5:39am
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Well, shit...
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DynoDan22 5/16/2021 7:03am
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Take a pic of the debris found and compare it to one of your clutch pins. I think that will confirm of the debris is in fact a clutch pin.
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Bradshaw Fan 5/16/2021 8:16am
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Bradshaw Fan wrote:
I had a 2017 KTM 350 XCF and had the same smaller pieces come out in the oil. Never could figure out what it was. I...
I had a 2017 KTM 350 XCF and had the same smaller pieces come out in the oil. Never could figure out what it was. I replaced the piston and rings and went through the top end. Rode it and went through the gears fine and never locked up. Change the oil three more times and the pieces kept showing up in the oil. Traded it in for a 2020. Hoping they fixed the problem with the newer generation. Still worry about it happening to my 2020.
AnimalHungry wrote:
Wow, that’s odd. So you never worked out what part the metal pieces were from? Cos you would think if metal parts this big fall out...
Wow, that’s odd. So you never worked out what part the metal pieces were from? Cos you would think if metal parts this big fall out of your engine that eventually something’s gotta give. If these metal pieces are not from an engine part then the only thing I could think of is it was introduced during the OEM build process and only now found freedom and revealed itself, getting crunched up in the process. Either way, I don’t want the rest of it destroying my engine and I need to find out if anything else in there is damaged.

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Has your timing chain tensioner failed at some point?
AnimalHungry 5/16/2021 8:41am
5/16/2021 8:41am
Bradshaw Fan wrote:
Has your timing chain tensioner failed at some point?
Not to my knowledge. Engine has run flawlessly for 60 hrs with the exception of the Rekluse EXP base plate failing, but it all held together and I replaced it.
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Robgvx 5/16/2021 11:57am
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Looks like you’re going to be taking it all apart Simon!
AnimalHungry 5/16/2021 2:00pm
5/16/2021 2:00pm
Robgvx wrote:
Looks like you’re going to be taking it all apart Simon!
Given the potential consequences of me norsing it up, I will not be going anywhere near it :-)
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williamsmotowerx 5/16/2021 3:33pm
5/16/2021 3:33pm
Does it shift through all the gears? It could be a shift fork shaft?
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rjg 5/16/2021 3:45pm
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Clutch pin guide. I don't know the technical name for it but it's the little round cylinder from your clutch assembly. The plates have a notch cut out for that pin.
Or a shift fork slider pin.
inthebadboycorner 5/16/2021 3:51pm
5/16/2021 3:51pm
Are the filters or screens on this bike, what else can you see in these?
AnimalHungry 5/16/2021 3:58pm
5/16/2021 3:58pm
williamsmotowerx wrote:
Does it shift through all the gears? It could be a shift fork shaft?
Gears are all good. I know this because I ran the bike on the stand thru all the gears to warm up the oil before doing the oil change.
AnimalHungry 5/16/2021 4:00pm
5/16/2021 4:00pm
rjg wrote:
Clutch pin guide. I don't know the technical name for it but it's the little round cylinder from your clutch assembly. The plates have a notch...
Clutch pin guide. I don't know the technical name for it but it's the little round cylinder from your clutch assembly. The plates have a notch cut out for that pin.
Or a shift fork slider pin.
Yeah it looks like a clutch pin, but unless they dropped in an extra one for me when the bike was assembled in the factory it isn’t one as I have accounted for them all.

Could be a shift fork slider pin, not that I know what that is. Tear down will tell me tho.
AnimalHungry 5/16/2021 4:01pm
5/16/2021 4:01pm
inthebadboycorner wrote:
Are the filters or screens on this bike, what else can you see in these?
Oil screen had some tiny, tiny metal particles, and I didn’t see any fragments in the oil filter.
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KMC440 5/16/2021 4:10pm
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Simon ... Tommy took one look and said clutch pin as he looked at the image in the thread. Get it torn down and get riding again soon.

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Richard Tease II 5/16/2021 4:13pm
5/16/2021 4:13pm
Tear it down asap or every time you approach a jump that will be in your mind.
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AnimalHungry 5/16/2021 4:27pm
5/16/2021 4:27pm
KMC440 wrote:
Simon ... Tommy took one look and said clutch pin as he looked at the image in the thread. Get it torn down and get riding...
Simon ... Tommy took one look and said clutch pin as he looked at the image in the thread. Get it torn down and get riding again soon.
Thanks Kevin. I agree, but I have zero idea how an extra clutch pin could have got in there unless it was dropped in during assembly at the factory and stayed put for almost 60 hrs and only then freed itself. Very odd.
AnimalHungry 5/16/2021 4:28pm
5/16/2021 4:28pm
Richard Tease II wrote:
Tear it down asap or every time you approach a jump that will be in your mind.
Absolutely!
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mikie44 5/16/2021 6:54pm
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IF it is a clutch pin you are missing almost half the pin still. Each pin has a wear mark from the 6 plates, inner basket and outer basket. At least 8 marks. On the piece pulled from the motor I see only 5 marks. So almost half an inch of that pin is missing.

Tear that it down.
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inthebadboycorner 5/16/2021 8:05pm
5/16/2021 8:05pm
KMC440 wrote:
Simon ... Tommy took one look and said clutch pin as he looked at the image in the thread. Get it torn down and get riding...
Simon ... Tommy took one look and said clutch pin as he looked at the image in the thread. Get it torn down and get riding again soon.
AnimalHungry wrote:
Thanks Kevin. I agree, but I have zero idea how an extra clutch pin could have got in there unless it was dropped in during assembly...
Thanks Kevin. I agree, but I have zero idea how an extra clutch pin could have got in there unless it was dropped in during assembly at the factory and stayed put for almost 60 hrs and only then freed itself. Very odd.
The pin could has sat across the drain hole all this time, every time you pulled the plug it just sat there, until this time.
Hopefully the fragments didn't make it up to the top dnd/ cam journal's.
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5318A26A-D1C8-4E9F-AE0F-43737C4D8330.jpeg?VersionId=9V2s0 gqKpWyaVZ0OY aRn.PmN4So I found the exact same issue on my 2021 Husky FC250. Bike is new to me and has 80 hours. I’m sure its had oil changes. Parts diagram calls for 6 clutch pins. All clutch pins are still in place. 

Bike runs and shifts perfectly. 
 

This photo is the pin I found next to a clutch pin. Look very similar other than length. 


 

 

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brocster 4/26/2023 5:28pm
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FIREfish148 wrote:
Looks like one of the dowel pins that go between the cases.
AnimalHungry wrote:
Thanks. I could see that. However, if it was one of the dowel pins then presumably that means that part of the case that holds the...
Thanks. I could see that. However, if it was one of the dowel pins then presumably that means that part of the case that holds the dowel pin in place is also broken. Smells expensive.
TheNewOriginal wrote:
Possibly (best scenario), a dowel pin dropped during assembly and has been in the case since new.

This was my thought as well. 

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dinger212 4/26/2023 8:58pm
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Just catching up on this thread. This is some interesting shit, I must say. Good luck lads!

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HarrowDrag 4/26/2023 9:40pm
4/26/2023 9:40pm

I'm on the edge of my fucking seat reading this!! 😳 🍿 ...

i neeed to know!! 
Release season 2 upon us Animal Man!🙌🏽

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Markee 4/27/2023 4:10am
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HarrowDrag wrote:

I'm on the edge of my fucking seat reading this!! 😳 🍿 ...

i neeed to know!! 
Release season 2 upon us Animal Man!🙌🏽

Well this was two years ago. I wouldn't hold your breath.

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TAUTOG 4/27/2023 5:44am
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HarrowDrag wrote:

I'm on the edge of my fucking seat reading this!! 😳 🍿 ...

i neeed to know!! 
Release season 2 upon us Animal Man!🙌🏽

We just binge watched a canceled show : (

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