• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Fork Repair Questions

huskyista

huskyista

Husqvarna
AA Class
Problem: I Need to replace the right stanchion tube :(

Forks: Marrzocchi 50 mm open chamber on 09 TE 250


Procedural considerations: To get the stanchion tube out, I need to remove the the bottom valve. To remove the bottom valve, the manual says to use tool R5081AA to prevent the forks inner parts from turning.

Questions:

The manual shows and mentions a hexagon shape for this tool to engage(p. I 11) Looking down at my forks innards, I don't see any hexagon shape. I see 12 holes about 1/8" in diameter in a circular pattern. Does the tool to hold the innards really have pins to engage these holes? And if so, where do I get this tool? Any other important points that I'm missing?

I have the shop manual, but I have never taken my forks that far apart.

Also note: The forks have been lowered 2" and revalved with triple action valves by Pro Action.

Any help will be appreciated, Thanks
 
We are the US distributor for Marzocchi and we can rebuild the fork for you if you wish. I'm not sure if we have that tool for sale, I'd give us a call on Monday.
 
Usually a air gun works to get them apart/together, but for the times it doesn't I made a simple tool out of a 1/2" pipe nipple, a piece of 5/8" heater hose and a 21mm socket. I like to use it for assembly because I can control the amount of torque.

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Xcuvator said:
Usually a air gun works to get them apart/together, but for the times it doesn't I made a simple tool out of a 1/2" pipe nipple, a piece of 5/8" heater hose and a 21mm socket. I like to use it for assembly because I can control the amount of torque.

Forktooldelete006-Copy2_zpsbfca2745.jpg
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Looks creative, but please help me to understand. How exactly do you use it? What does the heater hose do?
 
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