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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky Gordon said:
I have a 2009 WR 300. I replaced the springs and found out the 50mm forks were replaced with 45mm. Would the axle and spacers be the same or different? I have some slight play and not sure how to correct this.
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Was the bike together before you started with the springs?

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After writing all the stuff above about spreading forks at the bottom, I looked at my bike and it does have a funky spacer on the left side..

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When the axle is inserted correctly, the right side view of the axle should be like this:
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It's always a crapshoot. I am reworking a 2001 WR360 and the steering stem is the larger CR250 size. I 'know' this bike is like it came from the dealer, the guy I got it from bought it new. I still have the new WR Timken bearings if anyone needs them! I've had three sets of 50mm Marzocchi forks that I interchanged in my 'stash' of wheel spacers when they grooved more than I liked. The stash consisted of spacers ordered for my WR250s with 45mm Zokes. In the pic with the wheel on it, your axle is too long if it's bottomed as I described earlier. Did your disk line up in that pic. The second pic without the wheel is invalid without the axle sliding all of the way through the right fork... Does it have the axle pull on it preventing that action? I've had 4 CR125s, 4 WR250s, 1 CR250, WR125, TE450, TC250, TE250, TXC250 and only had the problem you have one time. Now that I think of that again, I ground off the axle pull on one and that could be the deal... shouldn't be, but who knows. You'll get it worked out! Ride safe.
 
Just a update on what was done to correct the problem. Axle was shortened by 1/8 of a inch. A new spacer was made that was 30 thousands wider and 1/8 inch was added to the shoulder side of the axle. The rotor now is in the center of the caliper bracket and there is no play any place. Hats off to my friend Don who has the ability to make stuff happen no matter what. image.jpg
 
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