• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

All 2st 50mm Zokes plastic guards rubbing

I run Zip ties where the ziplock is between the guard and the fork. No more issues. I also like running seal savers too. Prevents dirt from packing in the seals. Use silicone spray on fork legs after washing.
 
My bike also has a plastic piece on the fork so the guard rubs on it instead to the fork. Does anyome else have this it looks stock
 
Ryanx13 said:
My bike also has a plastic piece on the fork so the guard rubs on it instead to the fork. Does anyome else have this it looks stock
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The 45s had the plastic collars that you refer to. The 50s are supposed to rub on a thin wire clip that doesn't protect the slider very well. The Gasgas guards look like the best solution to me.
I put a pair of Seal Savers on one time and took them back off after I felt all the sticktion.
 
lankydoug said:
Does anybody have an easy fix to prevent wear from the fork guards rubbing? I've been rotating the metal wear ring to prevent it from being worn in two but I'd rather it not rub at all.
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A cheap and easy solution I found is to go to the hardware store and get a 2 1/4 piece of abs pipe. Cut 1" off end and then set flat and cut off just the thickness of the pipe, this will leave a small gap and allow you to snap th pipe over the lower fork leg.Now the lower fork guard will rub against the abs pipe. You could also use 2" black abs pipe as fork leg protector and registration sticker holder,Helps if you have or know somebody with band saw to make nicer cuts.
 
I had the same problem, so I just bought a new $10 fork guard (thinking the original was flawed) and no more rubbing.
 
Just ordered a set and came today from UFO, for new 13,310. Crossed them over to 09 Honda CRF 250. But you have to ask for the solid white ones. No more black scratches from one ride. These are the same as the 50's/KYB's.
 
Been giving this a little thought as I have noticed a fair amount of damaged fork legs on the 50mm units on the Huskys and came up with this easy solution
Not sure if pvc drain/down pipe is the same sizing in the usa !! I cut a couple of 15mm pieces from a length then heated them with a hot air gun then very swiftly shoved them in place (gotta be quick) they cooled to a solid shrink fit to the fork leg that I could not shift no matter how hard I tried so should withstand a fair amount of abuse

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So I am having the same problems with my 09 wr300

I got the white fork guards for the 97 crf250r and they don't have the brake line/speedo clamp. Did I order the wrong year or model for my 09 wr300? Any ideas?
 
zilly said:
So I am having the same problems with my 09 wr300

I got the white fork guards for the 97 crf250r and they don't have the brake line/speedo clamp. Did I order the wrong year or model for my 09 wr300? Any ideas?
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I ordered the CRF guards but not the clamp. The dealer wants more for the clamp than 2 sets of guards so I'm trying to scrounge up a used clamp. Meanwhile I trimmed my Husky guards and they are doing OK for now but I still want the white CRF guards... someday
 
I've found the best things are zip-ties, as suggested, or the wear rings from a YZ / YZF. They are plastic with a metal ring and cover much more area and stick out further than the wire rings alone.
 
Ok, I put my forks back on with seal savers and zip-ties and the old fork guards. I am sending the new ones back but the white would have been cool.
I am sure I would be faster with white fork guards!

Any particular year for yz/yzf fork guards? Years where they have 50mm forks I know...
 
I had the same problem on my 09 Wr 300. I put a thick zip-tie around both forks and never had any other problems.
 
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