• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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 performance on a stock 87 430 WR...

everfree

everfree

Husqvarna
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Is there a thread discussing fork rebuilding and maybe suggested improvements of the stock forks of an 87 430 WR?

Just rebuilt my forks and the previous owner had installed progressive springs and pvc spacers. Looking for guidance on why and what mods racers back in the day were making... I know I've seen bit and pieces of info around this topic, just wondering if any of that old wisdom is out there?

Thanks.
Dave
 
The forks work pretty well stock, you just need to get the right springs for your weight.
 
WayneL said:
The forks work pretty well stock, you just need to get the right springs for your weight.
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Thanks, Wayne. Yes, I heard they work good as stock. I have stiffer stock springs in now and I'm just paying with the right fork oil wt for dampening. 470cc of 10 or 15wt should do it.
Dave
 
Site sponsor HVA-Factory has some tricks I believe.
Backin '87, US Factory Enduro guys ran CR WP's and support guys ran Showas.
 
Norman Foley said:
Site sponsor HVA-Factory has some tricks I believe.
Backin '87, US Factory Enduro guys ran CR WP's and support guys ran Showas.
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Thanks, Norm. I'll give HVA a look. Thought about some WP's... we'll see how the stock Husky forks do first.
Dave
 
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