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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Forks.

Northern Husky

Northern Husky

Husqvarna
AA Class
lm thinking about ugrading my forks on my 1986 XC500.

lm thinking/hopeing a 87 triple tree assy from a CR500, will this bolt 'straight up' to a 86 frame?

l have no clue about the evolution of upside down forks. ls there any years/evolutions to avoid? Are the tops where the triples clamp a standard size?

l mainly ride fast on gravel roads with washboard surface, river bottoms etc, not much tight n twisty.

Cheers All.
 
The WP triple clamp that was used from 87-91 will. That had the WP 4054 upside down fork. That fork was also used by KTM and ATK of the same years. My brother put a set on his 86 Cr 250 and talk about a night and day change. I have the same fork on my 87 430 Cr, it's a really nice fork, way better then the Husky fork of 86. And it bolts right up

Guy
 
Don't those forks have issues with cracking around the part which holds the axle? Or is that something else in that era?

You should be able to find a bunch of stuff about fork swap using the search feature.

Fran
 
I think you would be happier upgrading to the 87-88 conventional fork and MAYBE putting Race Tech emulators in those. The 87-91 WP fork was not as good as the conventionals for off-road.I desert raced a 87 430CR back in the day. Very disapointed in the forks. Ended up having race tech redo them, which involved revolving and adding cannisters plumbed to the top of the fork to combat pumping the oil out on whoops.They were stiffer and more precise, but much harsher ride.

The 87-88 conventionals have teflon bushings, bottoming cones, and rudimentary valving. They lack on taking the big hits, but work better on choppy offroad type terrain.And they bolt right up.

I run a 87 conventional Husky fork with stiffer springs, emulators with stiffest spring, 15wt oil at 6" , on my 83 500cr Husky. I race it off-road in an air-cooled class. Holds it own against modern bikes.
 
Any of the moder husky stuff bolts right up. Here are some 99 WR250 45mm zoke forks on my 86 WR400. Bolts right up like it is factory. HUGE upgrade in performance.

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