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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1973 Husqvarna 250WR

And the Chain Is Too Freakin' Close!!!
 

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HA I remember that now. I'm gonna try it!! And the shop is the company shop, but since I've been there 30 yrs they let me leave my junk around!!
 
DeathFromAbove said:
And the Chain Is Too Freakin' Close!!!
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Since these Ohlins aren't upside down like the Fox in my photo you only need a .065" wall steel sleeve, tubing, with the same ID as the shock body's OD and long enough to extend from the bottom pre-load clip-groove to the desired height, i.e. the bottom of the top spring. Use a narrow washer or thick shim with the same ID as the shock body. This will support the sleeve at the bottom clip-groove out of the way of the chain.
 
Anyone else run up on this problem? 2 sets of grey legs the ones i got polished are smaller at the seal well than the other. WTF!!
Polished leg well is 44.97mm
Other leg well is 46.94mm
Both came off early Husqvarna.
 

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WTF!!
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The early fork legs, about pre 71 had the smaller wells and the later gray tubes had larger wells. Many early model Husky owners machined the tubes to accommodate larger seals. The polished tubes was someones idea of jazzing up the there bike. :excuseme:
 
Waiting
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Fiddle!!:thumbsup:
So these were probably off one of my Enduro C or Sportsman, Interesting
I ordered a set of smaller seals and could not find the originals in my crap box.
I'm blinging out one of these it seems.:p As long as someone else does the polishing!!:D
 
I'm tooo old and beat for the track!!:rolleyes:
But I did get the forks built today with the 35-45-7 seals. Had to install a thread repair to one of the fork drains. And scrubbed the stanchions with 4O steel wool.
Also got the front wheel built and tried to pull the dent from the larger Wassel tank. Not too successfully!!:o
How do ya like my new final drive??:lol:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/URmYrV4Q6S9TWFzL9
 

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