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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

86 Husky 400 XCE fork set up

Fritzcoinc

Fritzcoinc

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have been restoring an 86 400 Enduro.
Rebuilt the forks with new steer head bearings, upper and lower bearings, top out washers , and seals/boots.
The springs are progressive wound. At the top of the spring is a short pc of white plastic pipe. Looks like sch 80 pvc.

My question regards pre load of the spring.
The springs are free and rattle with the fork fully extended.
I havent put the bike on the ground yet, still sorting out the front wheel. How do you measure the fork spring pre load and how much pre load should I start out with?

Next question is, what is the torque value for the triple clamp, and handle bar mount bolts.

Thanks
 
man i dont remember the torque values I just went by feel....tighten..move it and see...loosen...not to loose not too tight...

preload is all in the feel....mine i liked stiff and would use about an inch of preload with it fully extended maybe a little more....its just regular PVC so you can just cut it or make another cheap...just do it and ride some...to stiff cut it off....too soft put a longer one in
 
Its all "feel" with the head bearings. tighten then back off and turn the forks side to side until desired resistance and feel with no back and forth play in the triples, snug the nut just tight, I have seen them split.
 
Thanks for the input. I will remove any slack to start and go from there. Does anybody know if progressive springs were OEM. The parts manual looks like standard springs.
 
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