• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

250-500cc Fork Type 1996 WR250

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Drtmonster

Husqvarna
C Class
I have been unable to locate a service manual for my WR (1996 250). The fork seals are starting to leak and need replacing. I have assumed the forks are conventional cartridge type and not dual chamber type. Could someone please confirm if my assumption is correct? Also any info specific to the Husky forks would be greatly appreciated. I obtained from another thread the tip to view the Rocky Mountain Vids http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/videos.do and that was a great help.

Cheers
 
If they are 43mm Showa USD's then they are standard cartridge forks - good tip is to loosen the bottom triple clamp bolts and then loosen the fork caps then the top triple clamp bolts...PITA trying to loosen them off when off the bike.

I don't think any Husky's came out with dual chamber forks??
 
Drtmonster said:
I have been unable to locate a service manual for my WR (1996 250). The fork seals are starting to leak and need replacing. I have assumed the forks are conventional cartridge type and not dual chamber type. Could someone please confirm if my assumption is correct? Also any info specific to the Husky forks would be greatly appreciated. I obtained from another thread the tip to view the Rocky Mountain Vids http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/videos.do and that was a great help.

Cheers
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I have a 1996 WXC 250 and it has 45mm Marzocchi's (not USD). One side controls dampening and the other side rebound. I have a fork manual I can try to upload for you if you really get in a bind.

Chris
 
ghettopenny said:
I have a 1996 WXC 250 and it has 45mm Marzocchi's (not USD). One side controls dampening and the other side rebound. I have a fork manual I can try to upload for you if you really get in a bind.

Chris
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My seals started leaking on my 1996 WXC 250 over the weekend and have never done any kind of fork work. Chris would you mind uploading the manual? Where could I find some new seals and what kind of oil should I use?

Thanks!
 
Drtmonster said:
I have been unable to locate a service manual for my WR (1996 250). The fork seals are starting to leak and need replacing. I have assumed the forks are conventional cartridge type and not dual chamber type. Could someone please confirm if my assumption is correct? Also any info specific to the Husky forks would be greatly appreciated. I obtained from another thread the tip to view the Rocky Mountain Vids http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/videos.do and that was a great help.

Cheers
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They would be 45 mm Marzocchi Magnum's.
Magnum's were used on the Husky range from 1996 - 1998.
1999 -2009 use Marzocchi Shivers.
2010 + run KYB's.
KTM also ran the Magnums as well for a little while, I'm not sure on the years though.
 
I have a dealer trying to sell me a seal set for $65 part #800097749. Seems high to me. I'm seeing other sets on line for under $20. Anyone with advise on buying seals? Would I be getting more than just seals for the $65...happy ending maybe?
 
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