• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

84 front forks

It all started back in the early 70's when the magazines started testing bikes and playing with the forks. They all started with 6" from the top (As A Starting Point) then added or subtracted from there. I think over the years the "starting point" was left off when people were talking about forks.

Since 1978 I have rebuilt and tuned fourteen sets of Husky forks to suit me. I always go by volume rather then measurement in inches. Husky forks are simple to work on and tune but you have to start with the correct springs.
 
tommie d,

What springs would you recommend (for '84 era)? I am clueless on this. Mine are like something off a pogo-stick. Hence the 550ml of 15wt oil.
 
Depends on your weight. I started gaining weight in the early 90's, by 95 my springs were toast on my 84 250WR so I put a 87 front end on it for springs and the disc brake.
It's been thirteen years since I got a pair of 40mm springs. They were for my 83 250 CR I got them from my local dealer Letco (they bailed on Husky a few years back). I think they ordered them from White Bro's. I think you can still get springs from them or Race Tech. Maybe Progressive or Ikon might have them too.
 
Hi,
I would like to know if the fork are from my CR500 1984.
The fork leg measure 48.5 cm or 19.09", include the head screw on the bottom.
Thanks.
 
mr stainless;74719 said:
i have 3 pairs of forks for my husky ...now i'm trying to sort them out to work better but have just noticed i have 2 different sorts !!
2 pairs have the part number 1512393 which according to manual are used on the ae,which is what it started as.
the other pair have the part number 1512358,which according to manual are used on the cr/xc.
so the question is ...what are the differnce's between them !!! and should i use the ae sort or the cr/xc type !!!
seems to be a wealth of info on here so hoping somebody can help.
many thanks
graham
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Hi, where you find the part number on the fork?
thx
 
Hi, I just found it. It was very heavily powdercoated paint! and it is an cross84 fork. Thank you!
 
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