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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

What tools for opening cartridge on Kayaba 48 open cartridge?

Bingo!
It can always get better, but midvalve and float work well now.
I removed a 24 face shim and the 22, and shimmed to get approx .87mm in float.

I still does whoops almost as well but soaks up bigger rocks much better, and it doesn't run nose-high as before so it turns alot better now.
Now that the damping action is balanced front and rear, I could finish off the clicker adjustments.
Only rear rebound is not down to the last click, but otherwise front comp, front reb, rear comp, and rear HSC are down to the single click.

When the settings were finally done, I noticed how easy it became to trust the bike and just ride.

Thanks Kyle!
 
Bad idea of not putting loctite on the cartridge threads!
I figured I'll be in there soon enough and can check it's still closed tight.
Wrong! While riding the other day I helt something similar to the steering stem nut being loose when lifting the front wheel over obstacles.
I pulled in, checked the stem nut (was ok), pulled the front wheel and felt one of the forks was weird.
Opened the fork and saw the spring seat had come undone from the cartridge tube.
No damage though as it was caught in time.
As it was time anyway, I'm servicing and checking the forks completely: new inner and outer bushings, new SKF fork seals and wipers and new oil.
And of course, some loctite on said threads :doh:
 
KYB 48mm front forks 2013 te 511

I have seemed to gotten myself in a spot of bother.
Just could not get any rebound damping,the screw adjusters did nothing,so I thought I would have a look inside,mmm,big mistake for me,all I have managed to do is mix up the rebound shims on both stacks of both forks,probably lost a shim and still have no idea of why I had no rebound damping.
I would be most grateful ,If any one could tell me how and in what order to put the shims back,(I have even managed to confuse myself which way the piston goes round), if I could manage this at least I would be back to where I was before I foolishly messed about with them.
Good news is I guess,I didn't touch the compression valve.

Many thanks
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