• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

'08 510TE Marzocci fork leaking

Puckerbush

Puckerbush

Husqvarna
AA Class
These are the 48mm type with dampening screws on top and bottom. I want to change out the seals and wipers. Is it necessary to remove the lower fork assembly to change the oil seals? From the YouTube video that someone posted, it looks like all that is necessary is to remove the top fork cap, guide spring cap, spring, adjustment return inter rod, drain old oil, slide-hammer the slider assembly, replace seal and wiper with proper slide action tool, add oil, and reinstall fork.
Also, the shop manual for a TE says 725cc or 24.5 oz of 5w oil in each leg. Seems like a lot of oil.
Comments/Advise?
 
I bit the bullet and started with the top caps. Slid the fork legs down and unscrewed the top caps and removed the dust wiper, snap ring and used the "slide hammer" action to expel the oil seal. So you don't have to remove the lower cap of the forks to do the job. BTW. I drained the oil into a measuring cup and only was able to get 18 oz. out. So that's what I added after the seal replacement. Forks seem to work fine.
 
Just did mine... super easy. I watched the Rocky Mountain ATV vid. Takes a couple of hours the first time... bet I could do it now under an hour.
 
Puckerbush said:
BTW. I drained the oil into a measuring cup and only was able to get 18 oz. out. So that's what I added after the seal replacement. Forks seem to work fine.
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That's what I did with my KYB forks when I needed to change oil, I measured what came out and used the same amount going back in, forks have been great since I went to a 2.5 weight oil.
 
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