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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC 2016 TE250 4CS Home remedy?

strokemetwice

strokemetwice

Husqvarna
Ok, I know it has sort of been discussed, but here goes. I will be sending this 2016 TE250 fork off when I have the funds, I don't right now so looking for options to get through the summer. I am a 170lbs rider so the stock spring rate should be good. Correct?

1.Has anyone had luck with adding more oil to the fork to get better bottom out control?
2.Has anyone had luck with a heavier wt oil to help with harshness?
3.Any other home remedies?

Again, this is just to get me by for a bit. I have not found any answers to these questions online and have searched till my eyes bled! I'm not interested in opinions on who to send them to right now. Just home remedies if any exist. I'm tired of flatting my front tires because of square edged rocks!!
 
Well it appears that adding about 10cc oil per leg and adjusting comp adjuster has helped a lot. I am about 3 clicks from full closed. Seems like this might get me by for a bit.
 
I added about 13cc extra to each leg. 10wt fork oil. Increased compression to full. Backed off rebound by 11 clicks i think. Feels decent enough for now. It still bottoms hard on flat landings, but still much better. It will ride higher in the travel fyi.
 
I know you're not looking to do a full revalve or open bath conversion yet, but if you're handy you can add the ZipTy bottoming kit. It's a DIY project that stops the bottoming problem.
 
Are you doing the work or someone else?

is a few things you can do to help bottoming and feel.

- restrict the base valve using a 16.15 shim on top of the piston, will allow you to use a much softer base stack
- add a bleed hole to your mid piston (1mm in each)
- on your bottoming cup block the exits with metal putty and then drill a small 1.2mm hole near the base of it
- block the bottoming cone (red/silver things) block the centre hole with metal putty then drill a hole in the side of it for your clicker feed
- change the mid valve springs to a heavier spring
- add a small spacer to the ICS to take our any float but don't pre load it
- run 80mm of 5w oil
- use fresh purple cart seals

not much else you can do without using adjustable bases but the mods above will yield good results
 
Update: I just did a full oil change and used Motul Expert 10wt. I filled to 103mm. They seem to have much better comp damping and when bottoming out they feel smooth and progressive. Mid stroke deflection doesn't seem quite as bad either. I still need to play with clickers for a day with the new oil wt, but this could be a cheap livable fix. The forks also previously had a fair bit of stiction which I determined was the seals. With new oil they seem to work smoother as well.
 
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