• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 tool 35mm

grouty

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Does anyone have a sketch of the measurements to make this tool ?
I don't really want to butcher the forks apart just to make a tool. It would be nice just to do it right from the outset.
I did a search and came up with the "barnyard" tool, but no dimensions.
Hopefully my new top-out washers will be here soon, so they will get a refurb and new coat of paint.
 
Try it without a tool. If it unscrews without the spindle turning you won't need it. I know when I was using those forks (the 35mm ones) i tried atf, univis, and genuine fork oil and never needed any tool to disassemble clean and re assemble. The first bike I bought came with a half inch drive socket ground kind of into a fork however It remains unused. That was for the 40mm ones. First see if you really need it, maybe a broomstick and pressure will do if it starts to spin.
 
Are you trying to remove the bottom bolt? If you use an impact wrench it usually works just fine. And if you put some load on the damper rod first, like fran...k. suggests with the broom, that helps. Another way is to leave the spring in, turn the fork upside down, compress, then hit that bolt with an impact. Usually, out it comes. I did say usually!
 
I used to put the scoot on the trailer/in the back of the truck, cinch the bike down with tie downs then break the nut loose. Final assembly/tightening done the same way.
 
Well ..... must be all the positive thoughts !
I had time last night (before taking the wife out for her birthday) to pull one leg apart.
A doddle.....
So now I have the damper rod out I can take some measurements.

Many thanks to Tommie D for the help.
 
My tool for 40 mm diameter fork is 66 cm long.
The cylinder is 30 mm diameter ( pic 2) and the "hole" 20 mm x 2 mm.
 

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What is the torque for the damper bolt on a 40mm set of forks? Have looked around the tech section and I am having a hard time finding a number...

Oh, and my Husky is a 81 XC.
 
I spoke too soon !
The second leg was not playing ball.
Using the first rod as a pattern I spent an hour or so making a tool this afternoon. Worked a treat !
 
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grouty;125090 said:
I spoke too soon !
The second leg was not playing ball.
Using the first rod as a pattern I spent an hour or so making a tool this afternoon. Worked a treat !
Click to expand...

Well. Grouty you're going to have to do a sketch and post it up here to help out all us other Husky meddlers!

Was the one you made like the photo that Michel posted up?

Maybe we should have a "Special Tools" sub-section in the "Vintage Tech Ref" forum ?????? I had a look in there but didn't find much other than one of those Service Bulletins on tools but it seemed for the earlier ('70s) stuff than I need ('80s).

I would find it very useful as I'm keen to assemble (gather) all the bits and bobs to keep my Husky top-notch.
 
Thanks for the pictures Michel.
The 35mm tool is very similar to your pictures. I will take some measurements and put a drawing up.
I used an old 1/2" drive socket to make mine. Not as good as Michel's, but it worked.
Michel has just reminded me that I shall be kicking myself stupid for not taking the CCM to Beauval last weekend. Never mind, let's hope someone takes up the challenge of doing it again.
 
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