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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC New TE 250 and TE 125 leaking fork seals

be350ka

be350ka

Husqvarna
AA Class
As I sit in the woods waiting on a truck to pick me up (flat rear tire, damn shale) I noticed that my fork seals are weeping. Not gushing, but wet rings after compression. Has anyone else experienced this? The bikes have 2 hours total on each bike.

I love being in the woods****************************************
 
On my 2015 with zero hours (4' of snow still) the tubes were rough, not sure why or what was on them but it took a bit of elbow grease to clean them up.
 
Both of mine weeped a little bit. They stopped after a few hours, haven't had any issue.

The shock on my 300 did blow out at about 10 hours.
 
Good to hear that it stopped leaking. When you say the shock blew out what do you mean. Total loss if fluid?
 
be350ka said:
Good to hear that it stopped leaking. When you say the shock blew out what do you mean. Total loss if fluid?
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It lost quite a bit of fluid. It was leaking right at the shaft. I'm not sure what caused it, but it was my excuse to have it revalved.
 
Yeah, I was not thrilled with the leaky seals today, but I'm encouraged to hear that it's possible they'll stop. Seems like an oversight on a pretty integral, yet simple part.
 
Did you contact the dealer about your issue? I'm curious if they would have fixed it under warranty
 
That did put a stop to the ride pretty quickly - maybe you need heavier heavy duty tubes. Do they make something like 10 mil?
 
The weeping on the forks could be some residual oil between the dust seal and the main seal left over from assembly. Both of mine were just enough to attract dust for the first two or three rides.
 
Alignment is fine. Worth a double check. I'll keep an eye on it but it seems strange that two bikes have both fork legs weeping.
 
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