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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fork oil weight

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supermotodaz

Husqvarna
B Class
Just about to strip and rebuild the forks on my 73 450 wr and just wondered what weight oil
And quantity you guys have found works well, I,ve got a set of progressive springs I,m going
To use and some 10 weight oil what do you think ?
 
Supermoto
Have you tried the search bar when logged in. Click the advanced tab and select vintage left kickers and search on fork oil. Lots of good stuff out there to be read without making people type it again. Maybe you have tried this and not found comments on forks similar to those of your 73. Anyway, if you have not tried the search, I would say give it a try. Lots of good people here with a wealth of info. I have been reading about the same subject for multiple models. As you should expect, lots of variables, your weight, terrain, and your own preference, but a search should get you a good starting point. Scott
 
supermoto...might I suggest consolidating your posts to 1973 450 restoration?

In my 450 & my 400 rebuilds I used the folllowing:

I used "Coastal" (28 oz) 80-90 gear oil Petroleum based (NO synthetic) the kind of stuff you use in an old truck/car..
I am using (200 cc) Yamalume (yamaha) fork oil 15 wt (clymers recommends 20 wt)..
 
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