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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Shock oil

Husq.fleet

Husq.fleet

Husqvarna
AA Class
Getting ready to rebuild the rear shocks on my 83-500, ITC's and the rear shocks on my 82-430. Just finished building a spring compressor and tested it out-works great first try! My question is what oil do I use in these when I go back together? I have the Ohlins workshop manual and it says to use Husky's auto trans fluid, is that still valid? Also any suggestions on a supplier to purchase seal kits also would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
 
The Ohlins twin shocks use 10 wt. shock fluid, this includes the Ohlins/Husqvarna ITC shocks. Maxima heavy shock fluid is a quality suspension oil that fits the bill, is made specifically to work with old/vintage shocks like Ohlins and Fox, and is half the price of the Ohlins shock fluid (Also a very good shock oil). I would advise against using anything but suspension grade hydraulic oils (Auto trans fluid, etc.) because the viscosities vary in comparison to suspension grade oils. (Not that suspension oils don't vary, just not as much)

Regards,
PC
 
Thanks alot for the help. One thing I didn't mention was my riding "style" or lack of! 250lbs and non-aggressive but I'm going to try a vintage race next spring. Pretty rare to see my bikes more than a foot off of the ground. Scott
 
Amsoil Shock Therapy in a 5wt. for $10.60 a qt. and 10wt. for $10.40 a qt. awesome lubricants for all your needs. For your weight i would recommend the 10wt check it out at WWW.RACINGOIL.INFO
 
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