• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Dealer labor cost?

alkrisma

alkrisma

Husqvarna
B Class
Do you think $250 is a fair price to pay the dealer to lower forks and shock 1" on a new TE310? I was told they would put in spacers and cut the spring(s) as needed. This will be completed prior to delivery.
 
I was told by a suspension specialist, that if you cut the springs, it increases the spring rate. I would think that if the springs are anything like the ones in my TE, they have spacers that could be shortened. If I were you, I would ask the dealer to write up a work order, explaining what the hourly rate is and what each part of the makeover runs, timewise. Any given work detail estimate should have a flagged amount of time on it. If they charge 100 dollars an hour and have the job detailed and flagged at 2.5 hours total, or 50 dollars an hour at 5 hours, that would make sense. I was just using those figures as an example.:excuseme:
 
That seems to be a fair price for the amount of work required to remove, dissassemble, modify, reassemble and reinstall the suspension on both ends of your bike.

Assuming that the person doing the work is qualified, you are also paying for his training, equipment, R&D, etc. An hourly rate is not really fair for this type of work.

At 210, you could probably benefit from the higher spring rate, but again, you are paying for an expert to do the work properly - they should be able to tell you whether the spring rate will be appropriate for you, or if you should consider new springs.
 
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