• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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1993wxc Frontend on a 1987 wr

From what I have read, just about all tripple clamps will fit, I have seen CR500 (honda), late KTM, mid 90's KTM, kawasaki KXF tripples all fit, most dont even need a bearing change, the late KTM onlt need a spacer under the bearing, so simple.

I have a set of 50mm white power forks, triple clamps, wheel, axle, brakes inc master cyl coming over from USA for my 1988 WR250 off a 2004-5 KTM 450 , should be good.
 
Staying with Husky the stuff will fit directly until they started with cr versions using an alumimum steering stem which was larger in diameter and then I think after a while the others got that as well. Just because I have the parts book for 2004 that is in the era of wr works cr is different. Even then it might just be switching out the bearing and race. I would be doubtful much Japanese stuff will fit The husky uses inch series bearings. I have helped a bunch of people put dirt bike front ends on large street bikes to enter hillclimb events so I don't speak from minimal experimentation. One might be concerned with the steering stops, the offset of the triple clamp,and if you don't switch the wheel brake and axle the dimention between the forks.

As to jimspac mention of going back to 1979. You can see my current avatar with a 420 auto frame perhaps 1981 or so and 2002 to 1998 stuff, clamps,forks wheel axle brake parts. Can't say about 79 but pretty much (just from my collection certianly not every model and year) with the mono shock the rubber mounted handlebars were stopped and the rigid mount ones hae a different offset. That set up I have the trail is virtually the same as the 40 mm rubber mounted handlebars. Add the offset of the triple clamp to the offset of the axle to fork center. I never measured the 35 mm fork offsets.

Edited/added later
My apologies I don't know how this inch series/metric series works in the era of looking things up on the internet. The bikes this thread is discussing so far have a cone L44643 with a bore of one inch, the cup is L44610 with an outer diameter of 1.980 inches or 50.292 milimeters according to the timken engeneering section of their website and within 5 thousands of an inch of my measurements. Now if you go to a cone L45449 and cup L45410 you have the same dimention on the outer diameter of the outer cup but exactly 29 mm for the inner bore. That is the set up (is the stock ktm size but the seal appears to be a dedicated part, a bit of a spacer perhaps just a bit too much thick for the ideal conversion as is) to go to ktm 2004 exc two stroke that I did and it is still the same all balls part for a 2011 250 xc two stroke. I made some attempt to figure out the 2004 cr 250/2009 cr 125 which might be like stuff on the showroom floor. I can see the husky parts sheet calls it out as 29 by 48 mm for the bearing/cup set so maybe the second combination I mention here would do that conversion. I am pretty sure if you get the cone with a seal the number on the box is different but the number on the cone itself is what I posted. The old way of walking into a beaing distributor with cone and cup I seem to recall getting the cone and seal as one little box and then having to choose from a few cups in the catalog. I think I saw another cone/cup for another mm size for the bore betwen one inch and 29mm with those same outer cup dimentions in the on line info at timken. The only jap one have hanging around and it is era ha ha measured 1.020 for the stem and the rollers were longer
 
What I have found with my own experimentation is any front end that will bolt onto 82 and 86
frames will bolt onto as far back as the first 1978 ML frames(w/tapered bearings) as I have confirmed the bearings and stem neck height are identical between 1978, 1982.1983,1984,1985,and 1986 which covers all the frames in my collection.

Common era japanese front ends can use the Husqvarna 25mm top bearing but need a custom bearing from an All Ballz kit to make the 30mm bottom stem diameter to work in the lower Husqvarna race(found an exact match). Most Japanese have common bearings and stem heights. Yamaha has shorter stems but Suzuki and Kawasaki have stem lenghths that work with the common Husqvarna neck
 
Put the front end on my bike last week.
Just to make sure eveything would bolt up and it did.

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Does anyone know what the oil should be?
I believe its 100mm from the top, with the fork totally comressed with or without the spring istalled?
 
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