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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bluff Boitjie

Bluff Boitjie

Husqvarna
B Class
I'm based in Durban South Africa and spares are non existent here. I used a 46x58x9.5 fork seal. It is 1 mm thicker than than OEM seal. I had to carefully machine off 1mm on the back side, the side that sits against the forkleg. 9.5 to 8.5

The fork tube itself can't be machined to take a thicker (9.5) seal as it makes the area where the fork seal sits too weak. When I measured it all up, there was only 2mm of "meat" there, so machining that would make damaging the fork too risky. Put the original dust covers back and Bob's your uncle!
 
Bluff Boitjie said:
I'm based in Durban South Africa and spares are non existent here. I used a 46x58x9.5 fork seal. It is 1 mm thicker than than OEM seal. I had to carefully machine off 1mm on the back side, the side that sits against the forkleg. 9.5 to 8.5

The fork tube itself can't be machined to take a thicker (9.5) seal as it makes the area where the fork seal sits too weak. When I measured it all up, there was only 2mm of "meat" there, so machining that would make damaging the fork too risky. Put the original dust covers back and Bob's your uncle!
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Do you need the original fork seals?
 
Try this brand and model :

SKF
  • KITB-46Z / 46 mm :
    • Seal : Ø46 x 57,9 x 8,5 mm.
    • Dust cover : Ø46 x 58,7 x 5,8 mm.
Had them mounted and according to the shop, they fit perfectly. This happened in France, but SKF sells wordwide, I guess.
 
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