• 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.

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Stuck shocker

suprize

suprize

Husqvarna
Pro Class
rode a motocross yesterday and the track suddenly got real rough and everyone dissapeared?? i then realised the rear shox had stuck in the compressed position 3/4 down travel.
its only 1 shock and i will need to have it pulled to bits but its solidly jammed. Any ideas whats happened? they have recently had new seals fitted.
 
You might remember that happening to my WR at Three Bridges Vinduro! my shocks had also just had new seals fitted before locking up, Mick has my bike at the moment so i can't tell you what happened to them, Give Mick a call he might have my shocks apart by now and could know what happened to them.
 
Yep, spoke to him today and this is the third set that he knows of that had done this...another he had nothing to do with. I just remembered your shox today when he said about the "other pair on a WR 240" so he is a bit stressed over whats going on with them and is keen to sort them out. They are hard to ride like that!:eek:
 
suprize said:
Yep, spoke to him today and this is the third set that he knows of that had done this...another he had nothing to do with. I just remembered your shox today when he said about the "other pair on a WR 240" so he is a bit stressed over whats going on with them and is keen to sort them out. They are hard to ride like that!:eek:
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Haha! They are very hard to ride like that!! I did two laps at three bridges dragging the back of the bike around! Not much fun at all.
Hopefully we will get to the bottom of it soon and can let other people know what the problem is.
 
Had the same problem with one of my shocks, new seals and first time to the track.
When I came home and unloaded the bike and tried to start it to drive up to the garage did the seat hit me in the bum.
Surprise-surprise, it worked as normal again.
It also happened a second time, tried everything out at the track, jumped up and down on the seat but nothing happened.
Finally home at the house when rolling the bike into the garage over the small edge on to the concrete floor, the shock popped out again.
Never happened again after that.
 
bizzare!!? need to get past that if we can. what was funny was ol mate on a cr honda had his forks jam in the compressed position..he had to ride up and down a hill doing wheelies till they popped out again!
 
I recently had my shocks for the AE rebuilt by Biketech. Frank mentioned something about 'the modifications were already done on them' so they had been rebuilt before. Not sure what it was, not sure if it is related, but some where to start.
 
I have had this happen to one ohlins shock on a 1981 wr430. I took the shock apart and found the shims had rotated slightly, not allowing the shock to rebound (possibly the nut had loosened or was not tight enough in the first place). I put the shims in the right position put it back together and all was fine.
 
They are re assembled and awaiting a test run??? its a nightmare... "nothing obviously wrong.. see if it happens again ..riigghhtt..
 
Mick at BDB still has my WR and I have no idea what happened to them, hopefully he can tell me what was wrong with them
 
Yep, he had a good look at mine and could find nothing wrong so its a matter of test and test. I saw the bike there, hope he gets on to it in time for the Tallarook event for you.
 
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