• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Fork Bleeders

sned2502st

sned2502st

Husqvarna
AA Class
I just put some Motion Pro Micro Bleeders on my forks (2015FE350). They dont work. I could see one not working but its both. Just makes me think its the application not faulty parts. I hate to try another set, if they dont work either thats 2 sets to mail back. What brand have any of you guys bought that work? Or as simple as they are is it possible I am doing something wrong?
 
I've got the MP on my 165 n they never seem to let much air out compared to xtech brand(taller type) on my 300. Same forks so who knows? Maybe they don't seal very well? Possibly try a second larger oring?
 
I just made a test fixture for them at work. A brass pipe plug tapped to M4-.7 thread. Seem to work just fine on that. I dont know they definitely dont work on the bike. Got a email in to Motion pro to see what they say.
 
I just wonder if I didn't have enough air built up to override the spring they got in there. I didnt ride it very much and it is cool outside. All the other bikes I had when I tied them down on the trailer I always let out the air from compressing the forks, but even doing this it didnt work. The fixture at work I had 30 psi going to it.
 
4cs forks will self bleed or self equalize so if you aren't bleeding immediately following a hard ride you shouldn't have much come out. I use mine to release compressed air during transportation to help save my seals. Probably snake oil really but it makes me feel better. You just need to remember to let air back in when you unload...
 
reveille said:
4cs forks will self bleed or self equalize so if you aren't bleeding immediately following a hard ride you shouldn't have much come out. I use mine to release compressed air during transportation to help save my seals. Probably snake oil really but it makes me feel better. You just need to remember to let air back in when you unload...
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I have always done that on all my bikes also. So that was the first thing I did was put it on trailer and pull it down, reached up to release air and nothing! That seemed not right to me and that is what got me thinking they are not working.
 
I use the ktm ones. they are sharp rather than flat which is hard on the fingertip without gloves but they work well p/n 78101900000
 
Well I cant decide whether they are working or not. After riding the bike a while I put my ear up to them and push them, nothing. Not a whisper. Immediately unscrew them and pssst, a definite poof of air comes out.
 
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