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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Maico 490 fork service

B

Bart

Husqvarna
AA Class
So this isn't about a Husqvarna, but a Maico, I couldn't however find a Maico dedicated forum that's as helpfull as Cafe Husky.

I'm currently restoring a Maico 490 (83/84 mono), and the forks are terrible in every way (rebound faster then a pogo stick), what sort of oil should I put in and what about volume (air gap), any other mods I can do while I'm in them?
 
Im sure I used ATF in mine back in the day, 6 inchs from the top with the fork compressed but mine was a earlier twin shock so would not know if the forks changed at all on the mono version.
Mine had air caps on the tops that I used to pump up to blow the fork seals out after the clips were removed, Could change a set of seals and get them back in the bike and away in under 10 minutes :lol:
 
I had an 82 Maico. The forks should be the same, I think they are great forks. I ran 10wt oil 6 inches from the top (forks collapsed springs out) Also run 8 -12 psi in each fork
 
I only have 5w (Motorex) fork oil, should that be okay or is it to light? How about running atmospheric pressure in the fork (I'm sure they won't leak as quickly).
 
5 wt oil works ok. It all depends what riding you do. I've ridden them without air, they're a little soft and the forks sag. I would always just pressurize the forks before riding, then bleed the air out when I was done. I only rode the bike 2-3x per season. With fresh fork seals I did not have a leak problem. I also ran good wipers with fork boots over top
 
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