• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC FE501 shock preload/sag question

reveille

reveille

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I replaced my stock spring with a 6.2 N spring. It had a 5.7 stock. I set the preload to 10mm but only had 90mm of sag. I backed off the preload a bit(2-3mm?) and got the sag set. Is this OK to have less than 10mm preload? I don't know squat about suspension setup so any help would be good. I did add some rebound to slow down the spring since I felt a bit of seesaw with the initial 10mm and some increased rebound. Now that the sag is close and the shock rebound is faster it doesn't see saw too much but I would need to really get out and ride it hard to find out. Just wondering if the stock fork springs need to increase too. TIA
 
I did some more measuring. I set the new spring to 9 3/4" which was 13mm of preload. That was too much as stated above so I backed it off until I achieved my sag of 105mm. I measured the total spring preload and it is now at 9 15/16"(252mm). My math tells me that's just over 8mm of preload. I hope it's good there. From searching the web it seems one shouldn't go over 10mm if possible and best between 5mm and 10mm and I'm in that range. I thought it was supposed to be at least 10mm, doooh! The spring length unloaded is 10 1/4"(260mm). So with the stock spring I actually had about 13mm of preload to get the sag close and with the new spring I'm at about 8mm. Any input is appreciated. I'm trying to learn as I go. ;) This reads pretty funny since as I type I'm answering my own questions. LOL Hawaiian coffee rules!:lol:
 
Static is just the weight of the bike right?

If so it's 1 1/8" or 28mm. That's with the suspension cold. I didn't check that when it was hot earlier. The numbers I mentioned earlier were after riding the bike offroad to heat up the suspension. The static will probably increase when it warms up but I'm not sure.

Edit:
I warmed it up and re measured. It is actually at 1 3/8" (35mm) soo I think I'm A OK here. Thanks for nudging me through.:thumbsup: Oh and I actually read the owners manual too, that's a new first for me! It walks you through step by step.
 
try running around 112mm race sag and see what your static is then. preload will also be better at 112mm
 
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