• 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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All 2st Dent in forks

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billyp10980

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have a 2009 wr300. Last week I fell must have just caught a rock the wrong way and put a small scratch and ding in the chrome part of the fork below the seal. Is there any forks from any other bikes that fit the wr300? I smoothed the scratch out but every time the fork compresses and the seal passes the dent it leaks. Forks are very expensive so I'm open to suggestions. Are there other model bikes that forks fit the wr300 or are 50mm marzochi it?
 
GasGas (I think) and other Husky's of your year will/may have the same 50mm forks.

If it's a scratch then Idacurt's solution is viable but if it's a dent, it may be cheaper to stip the fork apart and take the stanchion (chrome bit) to a repairer to replace and recoat?
 
No sure what type of epoxy my friend used for the scratch but he did smooth it out with 1000 grit wet sanding paper and it seemed to work fine,no leaks.Not sure about the dent,probably want to go with ohmygewd's advice but it's worth a try while doing the scratch?
Good luck
 
Araldite...JBWeld SteelStik...KneedIT...these products are readily available and if you are going to try and fill in the dent, you want a dremel tool to rough up the dint surface and then add the filler onto it...then 1000 grit wet and dry to even 2000 grit for a smoother surface.
Disclaimer: I've never filled a dent in stanchion but could work with the key begin that the repair is perfectly round (use an old fork seal as a guide) - either way you want to strip the fork apart (not difficult).
 
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