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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

triple torque??

04asphalt

Husqvarna
AA Class
looked through the service manual and can't find the torque of the four bolts, triple tree on the fork legs:excuseme:
page and section?
what is the value? upper or lower bolts first?
 
Front fork legs fastening screw/ M8x1,25
25 Nm
2,5 Kgm
18.4 ft/lb

On page X.6, first listing on the page. Didn't state a sequence.
 
Yep, 18#

Les at LT Racing rebuilt my front shocks recently and suggested 12# especially for the lower clamps. He also sees signs of overtightening on too many fork tubes including mine. Too tight and you compress the thin tube and cause increased fork slider wear and stiction.

Another tip he gave was to snug them up by hand, and then tighten each only one time to spec with the torque wrench, not alternating back and forth. He thinks that leads to overtightening as each one loosens the other.

- Mike
 
That is too tight.

the forks will bind @ 25nm


more like 20nm on the bottom bolts and 25nm on the top.

tagalong;84845 said:
Front fork legs fastening screw/ M8x1,25
25 Nm
2,5 Kgm
18.4 ft/lb

On page X.6, first listing on the page. Didn't state a sequence.
 
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