• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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fork swap problems

justintendo

justintendo

klotz super techniplate junkie
so i bought a 91 wrk to get the whole front end...excel wheel, brembo caliper and master, all in nice shape. this has the 40mm white power inverted adjustable forks...thought it would be a nice add on to my 88 xc...i thought all the cagiva huskies would swap over. my 95 triples lined up perfect...same bearings and everything...
so when i went to try the 91s bearings in a swede frame, i quickly saw they were different..the wrk had 3200sjr tapered rollers and the swede uses L44643L...the 3200 uses a bigger bore and a smaller outer diameter...i guess it would still work if i found a bearing that had the outer diameter of the l44643l and the inner bore of the 3200....
anyone run into this? i hate to scrap it since the forks, wheel and brakes are in such nice shape...
 
if you look in the parts ficshe you will see the bastard bearings are 91 and 92 only
try the 91 race and see if it will fit the 88 frame or buy 87-88 WP triple clamps
 
thanks premo, ill mic the frames and see if i can swap em...i think those 91 and 92 are bastards in every sense of the word...its weird how much they look like other cagivas but nothing swaps...

oh, except the brake pedal, and the calipers...they look like they are the same as others...better get out the mic and check, lol
 
Don't think this will help you , but just for a reference I put my 79 factory wr forks and triples on a old 2004 frame I had laying around just to see if they would fit and they did... Same bearing and race's .
 
In the motorcycle world the bearing is one part but in the industrial world the cone and cup and often the seal are all different parts. There are inch series there are metric series. It is quite frustrating trying to figure it out on the internet but often if you have a big enough pile of bearings things just work out. Just have to verify the cone and cup actually are supposed to fit each other. There is the length of the steering stem. I am not a real fan of around 1992 simply because I have refused to weld cracks around the axle clamping but what you may well not deserve this prejudice. This stuff has been discussed before and my experiences seem not exactly the same as others. It sounds like you might be able to make up a spacer if the cup is smaller that goes with the donor front end cone.

You can also mount a totally different triple clamp. That bike in my avatar came with 45mm conventional forks 1998. I actually took them off and put on my 420 auto to enter the snow run once. They wore out and I never liked them. I mounted 2004 ktm triple clamps (of which there are different offsets clearly published what they are for those) with the cup and cone for that (which I suspect is the same as the husky with the aluminum steering stem of that era) and using four layers of aluminum clothes dryer vent material in the lower spot the 1999 forks 45mm upside down used until they went to 50mm went on. There is a little issue with the axle length and wheel centering, which could be dealt with by adjusting the spokes or making spacers if I noticed bizarre handling. The stem length was a bit different but I still went with it. Now I realize the all balls kit uses (used?) a sleazy seal and spacer instead of the thick item from ktm and omiting the spacer should make it pretty perfect. Since then I have migrated those forks elsewhere and have 2004 ktm forks on there. There may be steering stop issues but hard nylon inserts of the right length most likely will be all needed for stuff in this section.
 
yeah yeah...........i think im going to have a local shop machine spacers so i can install the 91 triple tree and its bastard bearings..that way its reversible and would require the least work...ill post up if it works..
 
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