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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fork overhaul 78 CR390

Stump Puller

Stump Puller

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hello Ron Bell here. you'll see me as Stump Puller in the forum. first post so here we go.

I have a 390 that is being reserrected. tore it all down, sandblasted the frame, new paint, new Piston and bottom end. now the slow task of going back together. started with the Forks tonight. had to build a tool to hold the dampening Spindel in the fork tube. 3/4 inch pipe and the grinder is all it took. worked better than I expected. used case seal on the stepped washer at the bottom and low strength thread lock on the bolt. (found the PDF's available very helpful)

Any recommendations for oil weight for trail riding? I bought 10wt, but read 20-50 engine oil in the manual. thought that kind of strange.:confused:

my Fork tool is a little Barnyard, but being 3 feet long I could stand the fork on end when sealing the bottom bolts. will post more pictures as the project moves along. wish I had taken a few before I started. It was a sad case. rescued by my brother from the Junk Yard in Idaho.
 

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Hi Ron,

Welcome to the Vintage forum.:thumbsup::cheers::applause: I have heard to use either 10 or up to 15 wt 6" from the top but I'll let others with more experience answer in here.

Post up some more pics of your barnyard tool , how you made it in detail.... a lot of people will benefit. Most people will tell you to hit it with an air impact and then you don't have to worry about it spinning.

You have a great bike to work with!

T
 
making some progress

making some progress today. Forks are on, got inspired and hung the swing arm and bolted the bars.
NOTE: project supervisor in background
 

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Classic.... everyone has/uses the same means of supporting the swingarm.... soft baling wire****************************************!!

It looks very good. What kind of Bars? Bar Clamps?

Keep the Kitty Happy. You never ever want a pissed off Kitty......

T
 
Ron,
Great bike to start w/. Nice project you got going there. Looks great. Post up progress - we all love seeing what others are doing. Continue forward.
Oh, I got a shop cat too. Great working companion.
Rick
 
Depends upon your weight, riding ability and so on. If your over 200lb, I'd go 15wt-20wt at six inches from the top. Springs out, tubes collapsed. You can always add a little more oil, if you still bottom too easily.
 
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