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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

raising the front

Jodiesel

Jodiesel

Husqvarna
A Class
When I bought my bike, I had the dealer lower it so I could touch the ground. Now that she's broke in, I want to raise her up a notch so my center stand will slide under her again. I've never messed with triple clamps before. Is there a special procedure, or just loosen the bolts and get out the double-jack???
 
Adjusting the height of the forks in the triple clamps will change the way it steers some, I think mine are on the second line and it works for me. Play around with the height until you find the spot you like. Be sure to not over tighten the pinch bolts 16.6÷19.5 ft-lb check your manual, page 303 and 304.

Dan L:cheers:
 
Or you could try pulling up on your bike while you're putting the stand underneath it like I do to mine. :D
 
High-Side;82134 said:
Or you could try pulling up on your bike while you're putting the stand underneath it like I do to mine. :D
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I had been leaning the bike a little, sliding the stand under with my foot and then "yanking" her up on top of the stand. The last time I came into the garage, I was completely devasted from the ride and purt near ended up in a pileup on the floor...
 
Put the bike on a stand, remove front wheel, loosen top and bottom of both triples, spread triples with a flat bladed object and scoot them up or down. Make sure both are the same and retighten clamp bolts to factory torque spec (18ft lbs, I think). Then reinstall front wheel and be sure to pump the suspension a few times to line up the fork tubes before you tighten both sides of the axles pinch bolts. And yes, raising and lowering the forks in the triples can dramatically alter the bikes handling. Forks down in the trples equals slower turning but more stable at speed, forks up the triples equals more nimble handling but twitchy at speed. Good luck.
 
Goosedog;82166 said:
Put the bike on a stand, remove front wheel, loosen top and bottom of both triples, spread triples with a flat bladed object and scoot them up or down. Make sure both are the same and retighten clamp bolts to factory torque spec (18ft lbs, I think). Then reinstall front wheel and be sure to pump the suspension a few times to line up the fork tubes before you tighten both sides of the axles pinch bolts.QUOTE]

Cool. Thanks for that. I'm glad I asked, because I probably would have left the front wheel on.
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