• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

All 2st I didnt expect this orange steering damper to fit...

Sandgroper

Sandgroper

Husqvarna
AA Class
Bought an old KTM riser in good conndition cheap.
The damper bolt holes are about 1.5mm out either side so I used one hole as normal and custom
trimmed a new nolethane tripple clamp bush with 3mm offset. I will also refit the Husky factory 1 inch circular riser. The frame clamp and pin will fit
All I have to do now is sand blast that crappy orange off as we cant have that :D
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Thats not going to work like that. The damper pivot MUST be centered over the stem. You need to take 1.5mm off both sides and also make sure it is centered front to back. If you don't the pivot point walks around the center of the damper and will cause all sorts of fiction issues with the damper and pin interface.
 
And drano will take off the orange. Unless it's hard anodized. But careful the color comes off real quick and you can discolor the metal.
 
Arrr thanks for the advice guys, I was wondering about the 1.5mm offset. Draino? Will give it a go but didnt think that would be strong enough :D
 
Im currently having 4 new bar mount bushes CNC machined at 2mm offset. This will allow for the slightly closer mounting bolts on the ktm dampner. Will post pics once its completed int he coming days... hopefully :D
 
Bushes made. New offset holes drilled and now she is fitted and works perrrrfect :) The dampner pivot point is about 5mm closer to the tank than the centre of the sterring tube but after taking her for a ride today you wouldnt even know. Works great. I have nothing against Motosportz dampners as I had one on my 510, but being stupid I sold it with the bike arrg! this time my budget didnt stretch that far. I had to modify the bush top slightly and grind off a small lip on top of the steerer clamp. . . ;)
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WOW, thats some bar rise
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I would turn whatever he bolt is for around before you smack you knee into it. Been there did that once.
 
Motosportz said:
WOW, thats some bar rise :eek: I would turn whatever he bolt is for around before you smack you knee into it. Been there did that once.
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:D We spend alot of time standing up while riding in the dunes and being 6'2 anything lower the old back doesnt like it for longer than 2hrs riding ;) The bolt is my aaar hmmm home made GPS mount :D Not as bad as it looks from the riding position (note that the bolt points forward) :) I would like to replace the small round silve Husky spacers with something that has a larger top surface area tho.
 
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