• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

TE510 fork oil question

J

Jetmech25

Husqvarna
AA Class
After replacing fork seals and purging as much oil as possible by stroking the damper rod until nothing else comes out, I'm confused on exactly how much more oil goes back in there. What i'm interpreting from the Marzocchi 50 manual is that the chamber needs to be full (no air) and the oil level in the slider is set at 320ml. Is this correct? I've been watching videos for hours and everyone does it different or "just sticks their tool in and sucks it out until it sets the oil level". No help if I don't have that tool, now is it? Some just pour the 320ml in there and close up the fork, leaving it full of air. So which is it? Air purged or not? If I fill the cartridge and purge all air, then put in 320ml, the fork is almost full and I need more than a quart of oil to do both forks. Doesn't seem right to me.
 
Open Cartridge forks- TE's 50mm
>you pump the damper rod- just to "bleed" the circuit-
>oil level- measure without spring, and with outer tube compressed so its flush with the inner/lower tube. Measure oil level. Tube is vertical and level while measuring- acceptable is 110-130mm (airspace) based on preference. I use 125 mm. (notice I measure height (mm) rather than volume (ml).
YOU definitely want air at the top of the leg when as described above (that's your air spring). If you filled it to the top- it wouldn't compress. (make sence?)

I use a farm animal feeding syringe (3 pack for 2$) with a length of vent hose- to measure and draw excess. (no special tool)
 
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