• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

82 WR430 Shock gas pressure?

Skidmark

Skidmark

Husqvarna
B Class
Rebuilding my rear shocks and need to know what pressure to Nitrogen fill the resevoirs to....and prefered fluid viscosity and brand for a 150lb slow guy. What was stock?
Thanks, "Skiddy"
 
Skidmark;124376 said:
Rebuilding my rear shocks and need to know what pressure to Nitrogen fill the reservoirs to....and preferred fluid viscosity and brand for a 150lb slow guy. What was stock?
Thanks, "Skiddy"
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170-210 lbs N2 depending on how much you want the damp curve to progress with shaft position. Set the top of the float piston at 60mm from the top of the reservoir as you hold the shock upside down. (So it is really the bottom of both. :confused:)
I like Maxima Racing Shock fluid - Heavy. It is advertised as 10 wt and states it is made specifically for the Ohlins, Fox and other vintage shocks. You can also use the Ohlins fluid at 7.5 wt. It is a tad pricey for me. The Husqvarna service manual used to recommend ATF. I will disagree... now anyway. Technology has progressed and today's shock fluids offer tighter viscosity ranges and an improved batch of additives specific to suspension use.

Regards,
PC
 
"The Stock pressure setting is about 155 lbs". as stated from Husqvarna in the 1982 handbook. BTW Huskys "Auto" oil that was used in their rebuild manual came from Ohlins.
 
Skid
155lbs. of nitro. Silkolene Pro RSF @ 7.5 weight. Search "twinshock piggyback rebuild" in this forum for some very insightful tips and "how to" articles.

Pics of the rebuild would be a great addition to the forum.

Hope the above helps.
Rick
 
Be carefull....springs bite....ouch! Next time..I'll wear heavy gloves.
 

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