• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR250 shock dampening

lankydoug

lankydoug

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I've heard from many that the dampening on the stock Sachs shock is a bit harsh and I agree. The stock spring is a 5.4 which was too light for me but not way off as a 5.6 is perfect. I figured before I sent my shock off to get re-valved I would give it a try with the 5.6 spring. My reasoning was that a stiffer spring requires stiffer valving so I'd give it a shot. So I put on the 5.6, set the sag and rode it today for a while and it worked really good, as a matter of fact it rivaled the Ohlins on my GasGas. I have not tried playing with the clickers yet and had them set about in the center and the ride was so good I may just leave it as is. The forks were still harsh which may be another post in the future... I plan on changing the oil and cleaning all the break in grease and oil out and see I they improve.
 
as stated earlier you can sometimes get by with a spring weight change up or down one rate from stock and not have to revalve...it's nice when it works that way. keep the oil fresh and enjoy more consistent damping and longer shock life. some sach's had a weird spike in the rebond or some such if i recall. but yeh yer on the right track by trying the spring first to get the right ride height/set up ya like. good boy!

oiled saran wrap or plastic shoppign bags wraped around the end of the stantion work great for fork seal protectors too during reassbly- but you knew that already! mreeep! :D
 
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