• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Just bought my first Husky

S

scotty

Husqvarna
A Class
Before I put any miles on it I drained the oil, there was some metal on the magnet and a little dirty oil on the filter,new filter 1100cc of 10/40 mineral oil and off for a 10 mile run. I did what a previous thread said, 4 miles to warm it up then 6 up to half throttle then another oil change. This time the magnet was clean and so was the oil, more oil and a filter then another 50 freezing miles.
First impressions are that for road use the gearing needs changing, seems to be revving too high at 70 mph. Will two teeth off the back be enough ? The motor wants to rev, great gearbox, brakes are mega, might have to bleed some air into the back one as its just too much. Not sure about the suspension yet, can't work out how you can set the sag properly when there is no way of adjusting the preload on the fork springs.Any ideas?

Scotty
 
I did my first oil change at 250 miles... No metal fragments at all.

Which model did you get?

For road gearing, you'll need a more major sprocket change and a shorter chain.

Adjust the rear brake pedal down so that you have to move your foot a bit more to activate it. That should help with the control.

The only adjusters I've seen on any forks are for compression and rebound adjustment. I've never seen preload adjusters, that being done with internal spacers.
 
Not sure what bike you have.......The 50mm Marz closed chamber forks can have the preload adjusted by moving the circlips. The forks have to come apart to do that............. The open Chambers are done with spacers I believe. The new 48mm Marz forks avail on some Gas Gas's have an external preload adjustment
 
Sorry guys its a uk spec smr 511 with marzocchi forks. If the preload is adjusted with shims how do I go about changing them.

Scotty
 
mnb said:
I did my first oil change at 250 miles... No metal fragments at all.

Which model did you get?

For road gearing, you'll need a more major sprocket change and a shorter chain.

Adjust the rear brake pedal down so that you have to move your foot a bit more to activate it. That should help with the control.

The only adjusters I've seen on any forks are for compression and rebound adjustment. I've never seen preload adjusters, that being done with internal spacers.
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Have a '94 wxe250 with preload adjusters on the top of each leg
 
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