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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Forks, Servicing, rebuilding, etc. Multiple Models

race tech calculator is off by a wide margin on all but modern USD forks. Talked to their guys at Unadilla and they admitted to that error but they are the techs and not the computer dudes who post the thing and create the algorithms that is the "calculator". Also never noticed much differences with the Gold valves even after tuning. maybe its me but $150 buys alot of beer and VP fuel.
 
I am - well come in an extra large package. Waist size that is. I did notice a lot of difference after and I mean after a lot of changing that valve.
Much better. Plus Joe, I only need two beers now a days.

Feedback:

I have drilled even one more large hole in the damping - per feedback from race tech. And of course the 81 to 85 forks need all the holes drilled first also.

Remember if you do spend the money Race Tech gives you an Arhma discount for being a member.

Best comparison is when KTM had modern new bike ride day before vintage race just down the road. Road the KTMs all day ( 3yrs ago ) harsh forks, arm pump
hand cramps. Next day back on the old husky. Plush, no are pump, they just felt better. I was happy.


But one thing I like about the 87 forks is the top out spring. Am i saying you have to do it ? No, just another possible option.
 
I have emulators in Betor forks on my Triumph. Vastly improved those forks. I haven't ridden either Husky much. On my initial ride on my '82 in the woods I was very pleased with how both ends felt. The forks were perfect for the woods, responsive and cushy. As far as I know they are stock 40mm forks.
 
There were no complaints in tests on both the 1982 CRs and WRs and the only suggested mods were to use the viscosity of fork oil to suit your weight and ability. At that time it was customary to use air in the forks to set the fork pre-load. When externally adjustable damping came in, subsequently the fork air fill was used to bleed off the pressure buildup.
 
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