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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

35mm Damper rod tool (by Bodgit & Scarper !)

grouty

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I did say a while back I would post up my "made in a hurry" fork tool with measurements.

The damper rod .....
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The flats on the damper rod are 20mm apart. Depth to the shoulder is 4.5mm

Bit difficult to hold the camera and the vernier! It does actually measure 19.9mm
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I found that an old half inch drive 13/16" A/F socket had the correct O.D. to fit inside the fork leg. This is 28.5mm (or 1"1/8) diameter. Any bigger will not fit down inside. If you have a 20" long extension bar use that too.

The socket was cut with a grinder and Dremel tool to look like the picture below. Be careful how wide you make the cut out. Any bigger than 20mm and you risk rounding the soft alloy of the damper rod.
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This is a nice snug fit over the top of the rod.
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I made the depth of the cut out in the socket 9mm deep.
Yes, it is a real bodge, but it works beautifully. I have used this several times now without any issues.
 
That looks like the original Husky tool Michel. I would love one. I was in a hurry and had to bodge mine. If ever I get time I will machine a proper one. But time never seems to be on my side.
 
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