• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 marzochhi open chamber forks

268fords

268fords

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I recently adjusted the compression screws on my forks and now one is leaking. Obviously there’s an o ring on the adjustment screw, but I can’t remember how the screw comes out. I know I have to disassemble the forks, which is kind of a bummer because I just replaced the springs, bushings, fork seals and fluid but of course Murphy’s law kicked in. Any help before I tear them down is greatly appreciated. The pic looks weird, but this is the bottom of my leaking fork.
 

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You will need to remove the bottom valve to replace the o'ring.

The official method is a special long socket that you lower into the lower fork leg whilst undoing the lower nut.

I use a rattle gun while the fork is intact, upside down and applying downward pressure so the main spring holds pressure against the bottom valve. Be gentle with the rattle gun as you can cause the valve assembly to come apart and the shims fall out everywhere (AMHIK).
 
hhdwtmtw said:
You will need to remove the bottom valve to replace the o'ring.

The official method is a special long socket that you lower into the lower fork leg whilst undoing the lower nut.

I use a rattle gun while the fork is intact, upside down and applying downward pressure so the main spring holds pressure against the bottom valve. Be gentle with the rattle gun as you can cause the valve assembly to come apart and the shims fall out everywhere (AMHIK).
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Thank you. I’m going to be tackling this here very soon since I may only have a few weeks left before the real cold weather sets in and riding season will be over until spring.
 
I had another look at the service manual and it looks like the bottom valve is a complete unit (without the shims). It might not be possible to replace the o'ring. There might be a grub screw to allow it to come apart. See how you go.
 
hhdwtmtw said:
I had another look at the service manual and it looks like the bottom valve is a complete unit (without the shims). It might not be possible to replace the o'ring. There might be a grub screw to allow it to come apart. See how you go.
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Thank you very much
 
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