• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 seal replacement

Very impressed by design of new ( expensive ) fork seal. Bottom of area between lip and outside mounting rim seems to open up toward a lower extended lip. should help oil put pressure on sealing lip. Its the less friction material.

Will install soon to try them.
 
GaryM said:
Very impressed by design of new ( expensive ) fork seal. Bottom of area between lip and outside mounting rim seems to open up toward a lower extended lip. should help oil put pressure on sealing lip. Its the less friction material.

Will install soon to try them.
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Which seals are you fitting Gary?
 
Hi All, I was reviewing this thread because I had to replace my fork seals on my '84 WR250 with the 40mm forks and was interested in the homemade tools people made to hold the damper rod. After reading the full thread I wanted to offer another option in fork seals that should be readily available. I used part number 14-233 from Parts Unlimited which I ordered through Dennis Kirk here in the USA. Here is the link:

https://www.denniskirk.com/parts-unlimited/fork-seals-40mm-x-52mm-x8mm-fs021.p14233.prd/14233.sku

The seal size is 40 x 52 x 8/10.5 and the package shows Italy as the country of manufacture (hooray not China!). I use one seal per fork leg and I first installed these in 2009 when I acquired my WR. They held up well to a lot of use but then the bike sat unused for quite some time (year +) and was then used only very intermittently for a couple years. It was after the last use over a year ago they began to leak so its taken me quite some time to get to replacing them! Anyway, there are some other seal thicknesses available in the 40 x 52 size as well.
 
Do you see any issue with running 2x 40x52x7 per leg? They cost a fraction of 40x52x8 and are readily available.
 
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