• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1986 400WR Fork Diassembly

J

jimspac

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I have been busy stripping the shoddy paint that POs have applied all over the Huskys I am working on. I was disassembling the forks of the 84 250WR I have been working on and tried to disassemble the 1986 forks. I got bottom bolts out with air impact and 84 forks slid out of the sliders. The 86 forks seem to top out against something solid with the bottom bolt remove. Is there something I am missing? Is there something that different from the older forks?
 
jimspac said:
I have been busy stripping the shoddy paint that POs have applied all over the Huskys I am working on. I was disassembling the forks or the 84 250WR I have been working on and tried to disassemble the 1986 forks. I got bottom bolts out with air impact and 84 forks slid out of the sliders. The 86 forks seem to top out against something solid with the bottom bolt remove. Is there something I am missing? Is there something that different from the older forks?
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Yes there is a circlip under the dust cover holding the seal and bushing.
Look at page 26 / 27 on the 1987 owners manual http://www.yourhusky.com/files/87-ownersman.pdf
 
Thank you. I saw that circlip but thought it was just to keep the seal down. I took the forks down because the upper tubes rusted after spending a winter in a tarp shelter about 4 years ago. I bought a set of 1985 XC forks thinking I could swap the tubes until I saw the split bushing on the end of the 1986 tubes. Can I use the 1985 tubes without modding to take the split bushing?
 
jimspac said:
Thank you. I saw that circlip but thought it was just to keep the seal down. I took the forks down because the upper tubes rusted after spending a winter in a tarp shelter about 4 years ago. I bought a set of 1985 XC forks thinking I could swap the tubes until I saw the split bushing on the end of the 1986 tubes. Can I use the 1985 tubes without modding to take the split bushing?
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No I don't think you can. The 85 has just the one long solid bushing, statonary in the leg. The 86 has two one in the leg and one riding on the tube. The 86s were alot better, had less flex and more ground clarance below thw axle.
 
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