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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st Kayaba Fork Internals

J

JRod4928

Husqvarna
AA Class
Are they interchangable with Yamaha fork internals? Basically, can you take the valves, stanchion, damping rod etc from a YZ and throw it in the Husky kayaba forks?
 
I will look into that - but I don't think it'll answer my question.

From my reserach, the 2010+ Husky CR125'S and 2005 YZ's have AOSS KYB forks. the 2006+ YZ's have SSS KYB forks.

I would expect 2005 YZ internals to be interchangable (which can be verified by cross-referencing) because they're AOSS, but 2006+ SSS fork internals may not be interchangable with the Husky AOSS forks.

I suppose the better question is can I install SSS internal fork components into the AOSS tubes?
 
You're going to have to educate me on these differences in these forks. I have seen very little difference that I can remember.
 
fitment wise - I don't know how they're different. That's what I want to know too. I'm hoping the axle bolt diameter, offset between the axle mount and the centerline of the fork tube is the same, and the brake caliper mount is the same angle and bolt spacing. If all of those are the same, then the swap should be as simple as unbolting/rebolting the forks. If they're different, than I'm going to have to get creative.

Internally, they're different because the Husky forks are AOSS, and the 06+ YZ forks are SSS. Both closed chamber, but SSS is speed sensitive and AOSS is position sensitive. I've ridden both, and the SSS is much more plush.
 
I doubt that KYB would make forks that have interchangable internals (for sales purposes). But We'll see. Maybe I can get away with using the upper tube and internals from the YZ, and using the lower tube and axle/caliper mounts from the Husky.
 
Just spoke with a KYB rep - they said the internals cannot be interchanged. I thought this would happen.
 
The only thing that is really different about these forks are the spring perches, springs and that stupid position sensitive think in the bottom of the AOSS fork.

The Husky's don't use that position sensitive tube think on the bottom, so they are most like the SSS.
 
Just a comment, you keep saying "2010+ Huskies" but that doesn't apply to all models. I think it applies to CR, TXC, and TC bikes? Those have the TC forks.

I believe that the TE, and I know that the WR 250/300s, still have the OC KYB forks.
 
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