• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 SM450R Fork Seals?

gixxer188

gixxer188

Husqvarna
A Class
Which is better, OEM or Aftermarket? And how hard are they to replace? And id there any place on the Internet that sells them?
 
I don't think aftermarket fork seals have been shown to necesarilly be "better". Some people certainly may have had better luck here and there- I often stick to OEM. I just bought seals "online" from MOTOSPORTZ and replaced mine last night. I think those are OEM- they have a Marzocci part number I believe. Its easy- just pay attention to what you are doing. Watch the vids on Rocky Mountain ATVMC for instruction and if it "looks" easy to you go for it.
the vids should be part 1 and 2 of "fork seal replacement- cartridge type" which is correct for the open 50mm marzoccis
 
We've always used OEM seals. We've used MSR seals twice and they performed very unsatisfactorily.

Moving thread to Common Topics, since all bikes have fork seals
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I have been using SKF seals and so far they seem to be holding up better than the stock seals.
 
Seriously? (I watched the videos) That is sick just how easy that is! Now I'm pissed that I've paid to have this done over the years on all my bikes. And the suspension guy already ordered the seals even though I never confirmed that I wanted him to replace them.

They claim the seals are none standard and so they had to order them, $60 for the seals and dust covers and then it's $52.50 per leg for labor to do the work and then there is the oil cost. All said and done it'll be over $200 for something I can do myself. I hate paying for things I know I can do myself.

Thanks for all the info this will be very beneficial in the future!
 
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