• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 seal grease?

D

DougW

Husqvarna
AA Class
On T.T. I found lots of differing opinions on this but I thought I'd see what the husky riders thought.

I want to replace the seals on the forks. Do I use grease to install them as well as putting a small amount between the seals and dust seals? (one or both locations). If I grease can I use my bell ray water proof grease or do I need specialty fork grease? Can I use the bell ray stuff on the seal bullet to get them over that groove?

My first plan was just to oil the seals and bullet up with some fork oil.

Thoughts?

Thanks
Doug
 
What you described above is exactly what I do... I little grease+ to get them on.. I use marine grease, so I would think you bel-ray would be super. I also grease up the bullet with the same...
 
yeap! me too- I used "non specialty fork grease" - most seals have grease on them at the time of purchase- I used electrical tape to cover the sharp edges rather than a bullet as well- I additionally lubed with belray (not much) prior to sliding all parts together and smeared with fork oil on assembly- works for me.
 
I use a silicon spray and glad wrap in lieu of a bullet. I feel grease can hold grit in suspension and then either wear a seal faster or even score the tubes
 
HUSKYnXJnWI said:
Do you know the advantages- if any. I would assume there is a little less initial drag with "thinner?" grease but assumed it was a minimal issue.
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No i don't but it claims to reduce static and sliding friction. Do other greases claim that? Do a test when you are installing the seals. Slide them down the fork tube w/o grease a inch or two, then w grease.And yes there does seem to be a little less initial drag when assembled.
 
Some grease can affect the seals adversely, weaken or cause premature cracking etc. Something like "Castrol Red Rubber Grease" would be ideal.

Castrol.Com

A special, rubber compatible grease for use on hydraulic brake and clutch components where hardening or swelling of rubber must be avoided.
Useful in assembly of rubber components for brake, clutch and suspension units.
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PDF here: Castrol RRG.

:)
 
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