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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

87 fork oil height

B

bronkorob

Husqvarna
AA Class
does anyone happen to know the fork oil level for 87 stock XC forks? or if anyone has played with different levels and had good results. just looking for a starting point.

according to the tech card that came original with the bike, it should be 420-460cc. i guess if i cant get an oil height i can eye ball the cc amount. the card also mentions running a max air pressure of 8 psi. now i have have a few vintage MX bikes and putting air in forks has always been a mixed issue. do you guys still run air in these or without?
 
The longer xc, as opposed to wr, ae and te, (A little bit earlier that the ones you have) ones needed just a bit more than a quart for both legs so get a brand that comes by the liter. I just let air out folks who suggest adding air, at least for this year and kind of fork got unfriendly looks from what I recall. What you really are tuning is the air pocket volume above the oil. I would say somewhere between 100 mm and five inches when compressed with the spring in, perhaps someone else has used that exact fork lately.

Fran
 
bronkorob said:
does anyone happen to know the fork oil level for 87 stock XC forks? or if anyone has played with different levels and had good results. just looking for a starting point.

according to the tech card that came original with the bike, it should be 420-460cc. i guess if i cant get an oil height i can eye ball the cc amount. the card also mentions running a max air pressure of 8 psi. now i have have a few vintage MX bikes and putting air in forks has always been a mixed issue. do you guys still run air in these or without?
Click to expand...

I always ran 430 ml per leg in my 87 250wr tranny fluid dextronII its 7.5 wt works great for the tight woods, big rocks, and logs. No air pressure and I bleed the air off a few times through out the day..
 
180 mm with the springs out and the forks collapsed is what i set the 400 wr 85 to seems ok. i used 10 wt but might mix a bottle of 10 and 5 to get a little more suppleness on the stutters.
 
15 oz for lighter riders and 16 oz for heavier.
5-10 wt for light and 10-15 for heavier.
These older forks had no valving oil wt was all you had.
Later George
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top