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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

250-500cc Suspension issue solved !!!

Fellas, only turned the big 4 0 this year but l'm pretty much on the same wavelength... l CHOOSE to ride at 70-80% of what l can/could ride because all that 'l'm faster than you mate' has left my system since l realised that l'm not a 20yo anymore and injuries take longer to heal - fast straight and sweepers at 4th or 5th gear band doesn't interest me these day's but have a bet on who can get up the gnarliest hill, we're on!!!

Lets face it, and to you Gen Y's, when l was riding in late 80's and 90's, l didn't have forums to bounce ideas and knowledge so you had learn by trial and error but the best advise l can give to the younger generation (even some old foge's), don't be scared to pull things down and have a go at bike maintenance and setup as there is so much information out there but the key is to understand why.....when you head down some unknown goat track and the bike breaks down, at least one rider should have a clue???

As a Gen Xer... it's all about fun and enjoyment now - don't race the clock just race yourself.
 
Got my suspension done this weekend and specifically looked out for the fork oil to see how it looked. To my surprise it looked nice and clear and flowed very well. So my issues must have been with the valving.
 
Changed my oil on the weekend in my KYB's. Old oil looked about 10-15 wt and I replaced with 5wt after flushing them out. Will have to wait and see how they go?
 
robertk61 said:
And what a difference it made!! Now working how it should, nice and plush. I put 5wt in with a 120mm air gap, WOW what a difference.
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hay rob
did you find when you put the new oil in that you had to change your clicker settings ...did you find that you could go in a few clicks on reb and comp.....what did you end up with???????

note...when i opened up my 2011 310 std kyb forks i found that the stock air gap was set at 90mm and 10w oil maybe this is why it seems a bit harsh to sum this is why 130mm to 120mm oil air gap is a more plush feel to sum
 
I set the clickers to the middle (I think 15 clicks on both rebound and comp), only did 15km yesterday as someones bike shit itself and didn't have a chance to play with the settings, but the difference was immediately noticeable.
 
To flush them properly you should pull the whole lot apart, blow them down, reassemble and fill.
OR
Use metho or ATF, pump the forks and then flush them like that a few times (with ATF you don't need to let dry)...l wouldn't recommend petrol as the seals can perish.
 
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