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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1983 wr500 Ohlins ITC shock filler valve broke

Dwahl

Dwahl

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi all,

As seen in the picture, the nitrogen filler valve with the schrader inside broke. not sure how, I bought the bike like this intending to restore it. Does anyone know if this part can still be had? or if there is an equivalent part out there? It doesn't look like it has a standard NPT thread. Last choice is to get something machined, any help or advice is appreciated. The shock is currently at the shop getting re built so I dont have access to it.ITC filler valve.jpgHusky.jpg
Thanks!

Dan
 
Cheers guys, I cant believe I didn't think of mcmastercarr, I'm always on there for work! Thanks!
 
DeathFromAbove said:
At least your moving forward.:cheers:
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Exactly, I'm really excited to get some progress on this project. The poor bike looked like it was beat to hell again and again. Cant wait to ride it again. so if this happens to anyone, I got a filler valve from canadian tire, got the threaded end turned down to 10mm and then I tapped it, then had to go back and get the o-ring groove machined in because I had forgot.... all in all it was like 40 bucks so my wallet will live another day... filler valve.jpg
 
Best to bin the Schraeder valves and go with a modern style Ohlins end cap that is filled using a needle. We have 100 in stock!!!IMG_1781.jpeg
 
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