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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

te 449 fork seals

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Badf250

Husqvarna
AA Class
After a ride today, i have noticed that my fork seals are blown. Shock oil is spewing on both forks. My bike is a 2012 with 420 miles on it had it for like 8 months. Anyone have premature failures with theirs? Would it be hard to do myself or should I take it to the dealer to do? WOuld I need special tools, etc? What would you all do?
 
Sounds a little weird that both seals leak at the same time ... These seals are really just rubber wipers with that small metal spring holding the rubber part of the seal tightly against the forks legs ...

I've cleaned the seals on my bike over a dozen times to stop leaks as dirt in the seals usually cause the leaking ...
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Seals are not hard to change but the work is a little technical and the parts you are working with are small and made of soft material and can be damaged by over tightening if not careful ... You can work on them 1 at a time and always refer back to the fork you have not torn apart if you get confused on putting them back together or just use a camera to take pics along the way as you tear one apart ...
 
Badf250 said:
After a ride today, i have noticed that my fork seals are blown. Shock oil is spewing on both forks. My bike is a 2012 with 420 miles on it had it for like 8 months. Anyone have premature failures with theirs? Would it be hard to do myself or should I take it to the dealer to do? WOuld I need special tools, etc? What would you all do?
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Clean under the seals 1st by using an old piece of 35 mm film. Pull down the wipers and slide the film under the seals and work it all the way around each seal. Also make sure that the front axle isn't pulling or pushing the forks out of alignment. If the forks are pulled in or pushed out the seals will leak.
 
Thanks for the info. I will def try to clean them up and check the alignment before I try doing the seals. Never had a bike blow the seals before so i was unsure how to proceed.
 
I use shock sox to keep the dirt away from the seals. Huskyista is right on to get a slim plastic to clear any grit on the seals, they make a cheap one for that purpose that I got for free at an race.

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Here is the tool to clean out the seal. When the time comes I think everyone should learn to do their own seals. I know some riders who go through them once a year, not hard to do. Probably a tutorial on you tube. You just need a seal driver.

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+1 Seals are easy. Get a simple driver.

TE in RC said:
Here is the tool to clean out the seal. When the time comes I think everyone should learn to do their own seals. I know some riders who go through them once a year, not hard to do. Probably a tutorial on you tube. You just need a seal driver.
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Badf250 said:
After a ride today, i have noticed that my fork seals are blown. Shock oil is spewing on both forks. My bike is a 2012 with 420 miles on it had it for like 8 months. Anyone have premature failures with theirs? Would it be hard to do myself or should I take it to the dealer to do? WOuld I need special tools, etc? What would you all do?
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That is a premature failure.
 
Seal mate works great-or the old film trick. I spray the fork stanchions with pimp juice (silicone spray) after I wash my bikes. Compress the forks several times and watch the grime come sliding down the stanchion tubes. Silicone also helps keep the seals from dry rotting or drying out from the cleaners I use when washing my bikes.
 
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