• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 '09 WR 300 50mm Zokes

Rob578

Rob578

Husqvarna
AA Class
Had the pleasure of replacing the fork seals this past weekend. What I found inside the forks was very interesting. both the compression and the rebound valving were covered in what appeared to be some kind of whitee assembly grease, completely clogging the ports of course this was mixed with all the dirt that leaked past the seals making for goopy mess. Haven't had a chance to ride it but it certainly feels different bouncing up and down on it.
 
did ya service the fork after break in?

every ktm ive ever had had that white grease in it. if the bike's a left over it dries and flakes up then props the oil seal open then its off to the leak races.

real important- on ANY bike, after a couple/few hours tear the fork down and service it- surgically, get it SPOTLESS. this will increase your plushness and insure longest possible seal life. fork seals are a consumable. some last forever, but, they are not intended to do same. ALL fork's require regluar service, a LOT. the valving is VERY sensative to contaminants and the oil takes a major thrashing.

dont take my word for it...see the OM.
 
I need to update this, someone brought it to my attention that the water that leaked past the seals could have caused the goopy mess in the forks. I would have thought it would have just turned the oil "milky" but I guess fork oil is nothing like motor oil.
 
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