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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1987 Fork damping ring

Mogly406

Husqvarna
AA Class
I am assembling a pair of '87 forks and am unsure which direction I should install the tapered damping ring. The '88 owners manual I have says to install with the smaller diameter of the ring facing up towards the triple clamps. This doesn't seem correct to me and I think I remember seeing another post questioning this also but now I can't find it. Can anyone confirm the correct position? Thanks. image.jpeg
 
i have always installed them as the manual states..works fine. i did upgrade to the hva factory units this last time tho!
 
The small end mates into the large end of the aluminum cup so the HVA interpretation is correct. That aluminum asssembly then slide into the steel with the bottom of that cone against the steel tabs. I had to verify that myself a few years ago
 
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