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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

79/80 fork help

T

Team WR

Husqvarna
AA Class
I am trying to find what type of bushing goes in the right lower fork leg which the front axle goes thru. This would be the type used with the front axle with the bar (used to help you pull it out by hand after loose up the bolts) and normal nut.
Its used on the WR/OR front ends. I saw one on some complete forks for sale on EBAY, not sure if its aluminun or steel, and it had a slit across the bottom like the fork leg. I guessing that the fork lowers are the same and this piece goes in the place of the aluminum bolt/nut on the CR's
Can anyone help? or provide info on the lower fork legs for a 1979/1980 250/390 WR/OR
 
The parts diagrams show a sleeve with a separate nut for the front axle on the 1980 OR and WR - part number 151623901. The CR's had a one piece front axle nut/sleeve - 151608401. Tou can look in the Vintage Tech Ref section for all kinds of 79-80 parts info.
 
Excellent!
Thank you Long Range, I have the axle and nut, just need the sleeve. My bike has the CR axle aasembly. I joined this site for this kind of information and help. I will check the tech section for additional info.

Best Regards.
Team WR (1979 250WR)
 
Glad I could help. I just checked the Halls-Cycles.com parts site, and they appear to have the sleeve available for about $14 plus s+h.
 
Thanks again Long Range,
I will check the site, I forgot to ask if anyone had one or for a source.
What a great group of people!

Team WR
 
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