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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New To Me Hva 250cr 1980

Good info from SUPRIZE. Also, looks like forks are slid down in the clamps. I don't know the measurement but you can loosen everything up with springs out and and bottom them out to find that point. As pointed out Husky forks were a bit finicky for me too. Always wanted to adapt a Honda or Yammy front end and see what happened...
 
Picklito said:
I bet you'll find that it sits properly with a good rebuild of the Ohlins. Also, cut the front forks springs and refinish the ends so that they install with 3-5mm of preload. I bet you'll find that the stockers are a good inch too long. They had tons of preload, which worsened the stance and the "top out" problem that these forks are famous for (when the plastic damper ring fails). If you swap the front to the 40mm fork (great upgrade) do the same to the springs.

80 is a great looking model. The longest travel Husky with the square tank.
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I noticed when someone else was trying my bike that the front end does ride high, but still smashes through the travel when landing jumps.
 
With the fork caps off and the forks fully extended, how much do your springs stick out of the chrome tube?
 
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