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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

crew67lm

crew67lm

Husqvarna
AA Class
I bought a 1979 250CR that had rusty,pitted fork tubes. On that auction site I found a set of forks that the owner claimed were off a '79 390OR. I bought them,but when they arrived,they were 40mm forks off an early 80's Husky. Everything is an easy bolt-up,EXCEPT the front axle doesn't fit the saddles on the sliders,and it also isn't long enough. Are there any options other than trying to find a front wheel assembly that fits the forks? Does anyone know if the correct axle for the forks will fit the '79 front wheel? Thanks for any help.
 
Your 79 front wheel will fit the 81-up 40mm forks,you need the longer 81-up axle and the tubular spacer/bushing that fits inside the fork leg clamp.On the right side some bikes use another spacer between the wheel bearing and the fork leg,some have a pressed-in {over the wheel bearing}drive flange with 2 roll pins 180* apart to drive the odometer,they usually have the spacer "floating" in them,of these there are 2 types,1 has a thin tubular spacer,the other a thick steel spacer,If you dont have or want to use the odometer drive,try to find the thick steel type,as the thin tube type tends to crack and split on the seam.
 
I've got a nice set of 35mm forks, i bought for a long gone project, i'd let go cheap (+ shipping from NJ), if you'd rather go that route.
Husky John
 
John, put me next in-line for those 35mm forks, if crew67lm doesn't take them.
Thanks, Ron
 
John,sell those forks to Ron. It looks like Huskydogg has come to the rescue with an axle & spacers to fit the forks.
HOWEVER,I still need the 8 studs and nuts that clamp the axle to the sliders. Anyone got a lead on those?
Thanks again,and Cafe Husky ROCKS!
 
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