• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

how much oil in 09 TXC 450 50mm forks?

My 08 TXC250 which had the 50mm forks worked pretty good with from 280cc-250(?) oil .... Once I dropped to that lower number, they got to feeling pretty smooth on the trails ... Still had some feedback but nothing very hard, no deflecting ... My shims are stacked in a straight-stack formation also ... Really changed the feel for the better ... Changing the oil amounts will help but only so far ... Then you got to go a little deeper ... I need to look inside my kybs on the 010 TC250 and see if something that simple (on the shim stacking) will make them just a little softer ...

The initial issue with these forks on my bike was the default setup... Too much air was left in the inner chambers and this cause big deflections and harshness... Once that air was bleed out the forks were 95% better ...
 
Thanks! I was looking over the downloaded manual the other day and noticed the table in the back calls for 320ml of oil in the outer chamber and I thought maybe 260ml was too low. I'm going to have to find a rock garden to test them out. Probably need to adjust the clickers some for the 5 wt oil and lighter springs. I'm pretty sure I got the cartridge bled well.
 
Are the TE forks the same?
Actually while i'm at it how do you replace the fork seals on these ones? As in does the top cap need to come off or just the bottom assembly. Any special tools needed etc?
 
TE might be open chambers but you'll have to check ... There was some musical-forks games back then ...The forks gotta come apart to change seals ... Unless those seals have that small metal spring out or have lots of hrs on them, you can probably just clean them and stop the leaking ..

That top cap on the forks needs some sort of pointer tool to screw it off from the tube ... I used some sort of AC puller holder tool ... Don't think the bottom nut is anything special ...

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The process of bleeding that inner chamber was out here somewhere ... We were clamping that bladder at the top in some manner ...If air was in mine, it would not perform correctly. Those forks have that pre-load cup on them also ... Easy to set the pre-load ... Forget where mine are set now but I'm sure the forks were riding high in the stroke...

320ml would not work for me for sure ... And not sure where the too low mark is it.
 
I'm pretty sure the TE and SMR have the open chamber forks. Totally different, but easier actually, no chamber to bleed.
 
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