• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Spring Data 1982 - 1988 40mm Forks

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Can anyone help with data regarding spring rates and what the color codes mean on the springs(yellow / Green - which is stiffer?? etc..) and with the lengths of springs for specific years?

I need some stiffer springs for my bikes and don't want to start re-inventing the wheel - (or spring in this instance****************************************).

Thanks

Andy.
 
have you considered cutting the spring shorter and using a longer spacer on it ?
as a coil spring functions the same as a torsion spring so shorter = firmer
 
Andy,

I've put Race Spec springs in the front of my 82 430....look on their website gives you all the info regarding weights etc.

Cheers,

Steve
 
Andy,
New update for you on forks. I have been running and playing with race tech springs and gold valves. I love my Race tech forks. I did take a while to find the set up and playing with springs.

After riding all the new 2013 KTMs all day at special ride day - I swear that my Husky forks felt almost just as good - read below.

I am running 50KG springs ( I am heavy) with race tech gold valve 3 turns out on medium gold valve adjustment spring with 15wt 6 inches from top. I am using 86/ 87 Forks which have larger damping holes
already drilled out by husky. Take the Std internal small spring and small damping piston out of bottom of damping rod. I even drilled out the small hole all the way through the rod located above
other damping holes. Matt from race tech wants that oil to flow.

Rode Thursday most of day at Rio Bravo on my 430 on practice day Rode Friday all the KTMs at the event most of day. Had compression spikes and hand cramping on the new KTMs.

Rode Rio on weekend I was so happy to have my 86/87 forks !! Still may try with 48Kg springs to get even more softer feel

Help - my rear Ohlins are not set up right. Thats were I need help.
 
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