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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

420 ae fork oil

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Hi all , just replaced fork seals on an 81/82 ae 420 and I'm looking for the amount of fork oil in each fork leg . These are 35mms forks and appear to have 10 to 11 inches of travel . I've tried searching thru posts looking for an answer but I guess I just haven't found the correct search yet . Bike is ridden by a 200 lbs 60 plus year old expert on a natural terrain track without any big jumps .(yet ) Trying to get it ready for my buddy .
 
What the amount of oil in the fork tube does is set the amount of air above the oil. I would go about five inches below the top with the forks compressed. Probably easier to take the springs out to pour the oil in and see the level. I think George/Uptite has comment along these lines perhaps not the exact model or year. Adjust from there if you choose and make notes. I do not recall how much I put in that is more work, having to pour the oil into a graduated cylinder and then into the fork. A quart or liter bottle will be enough for both forks.
 
Thanks Fran , that's a good start . Trying to get close from the start hoping someone is close to my buddy and give me a good starting point . I'm hoping to get close enough that he's happy . What I don't want to do is put in too much and have the forks hydraulic lock before using all the travel .
 
Thanks Marty , forks were cleaned carefully inside . Is there a min / max ? By the way , think my buddy bought some parts from you , we used the master cylinder already as the one in use failed .
 
Glad I could help with the mastercylinder.
As far as min/max on the for oil I would just start with the 250cc per leg and if you need to add any which I don't think you will you can add 5cc at a time just by removing the plastic center fork cap. If you need to take any out suck it out with a syringe like you can get at a pet supply store.

Marty
 
Already have a 60cc syringe that I use when I want / need to be precise . Takes more time but better than guessing .
 
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