• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

50mm Marzocchi dampener tube explosion!

J

Jornum1

Husqvarna
B Class
Just wondering if this is common?
I bought this bike used, and it had be revalved previously.
Both my seals were leaking so I tore the bike down to replace them. When pumping the dampener rod to force air out I noticed one did not get any suction.
Upon tearing it down, I found this





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Looks like eveything came loose and the bolt got jammed sideways and broke through the tube.

Anyone every see this before?

Anyone have some forks, or a dampener they want to sell!
I am not sure where to go now as a new dampener assembly is $400 from Husky.
 
That's about as ugly as it can get ...

I'm always a little afraid of a failure\error like this when I work on my own forks ... The work is not so hard but tedious and sort of fragile ... and slight errors end with with your results ...
 
Yuk, sorry to hear it. Search eBay and list a WTB add here, people have forks they sell. Good luck.
 
Yeah I was very surprised to find that as well. What a great experience for my first time tearing forks down!
I did post up, and may have found some one ebay. trying to confirm.
 
Oooh...that's nasty! I guess whoever revalved it, didn't fasten it down properly....plus, unless you want to run stock valving in both forks, you'll have to get new shims to match the valving on the good fork.:thumbsdown:
 
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