• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    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!

Going Bonkers About Boingers!

Skidmark

Skidmark

Husqvarna
B Class
Why cant I find ANYWHERE the simple capacity/weight information for my 82 430WR 40mm forks? :excuseme:

I'm rebuilding them and would LOVE to put them together tonight but I cant find any model specific "factory" charts.

Some guy said to use 20-50 motor oil between 15 & 16 oz. REALLY?
Another said 430cc (14.5oz?). :banghead::banghead:

Also.... where can I find a model specific workshop manual, official Husqvarna or otherwise that will contain all this information? This bike is old..but not THAT old.

I'm going nuts..... time for a beer and some pizza! :cheers:

Mahalo!
Skiddy
 
1982 430WR, from the Husqvarna Spec. Sheet.
Travel: 270mm
Trail: 152mm
Fork Angle (castor): 30 deg
Air Pressure/ leg 8 lbs maxium
Oil Capacity per leg: 430cc
Oil Recommendation: Fork Oil SAE 10-30
 
You da bes' brah! :notworthy:

OK, since I have your attention... I also have the forks from a 82 CR430...are they different? (damper rod hole sizes etc?).

Why are there no "top out" springs? The "Clunk" when I lift the front end is disturbing. :thumbsdown:

Do you actually run air in the forks or is there a better way? I have a motion pro fork gauge/pump.

And where do I find a manual that has all this cool info in it?

Mahalo Nui Loa!
Skiddy
 
Skid,

I dont remember if the cr had different dampner rods with differnt holes or not. but most likely they do.

Your top out clunk is most likely the plastic washers on the dampener rods. They get worn or mis-shapen and then the forks top out with a clunk. Put new ones in and the clunk goes away.

Years ago HP had some aluminum ones made with a o-ring, that we used to use instead. Dont know if any of them are still around.

Bob Bean

ISDE Italy 86
ISDE Poland 87
ISDE Germany 89
 
They are different as they have more travel then the WR forks by 30mm and hold 20cc more fork oil. I run mine at 2-3 psi but most people just use the valve to bleed the air out and run them at zero psi.
 
Anyone have the apparently elusive 82 WR430 owners manual or service manual they want to sell me? or know where to get them?

Mahalo,
Skiddy
 
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