• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 511 > 2011 suspension settings?

Cosmokenney said:
Any idea what size hook wrench I need for the rear shock, or are the hinged ones any good?
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It may be primitive, but a big flat screw driver or drift and deadblow hammer works quite well for me. Use the screw driver to break the lock ring loose, then use your hand to twist the spring to tighen or loosen preload as needed. Use the screwdriver and deadblow to retighten the lock ring - not too much...

Sorry to upset everyone with the "ad" comment. I offered respect and was just sayn'. I have conducted positive business with both Motosportz and Zipty and would recommend both. There is also, IMO, somethig to be said for folks helping each other out when DIY is an option as well. Which, I know, Tinken and Motosportz do as well. Just lately...
 
gillies said:
It may be primitive, but a big flat screw driver or drift and deadblow hammer works quite well for me. Use the screw driver to break the lock ring loose, then use your hand to twist the spring to tighen or loosen preload as needed. Use the screwdriver and deadblow to retighten the lock ring - not too much...

Sorry to upset everyone with the "ad" comment. I offered respect and was just sayn'.
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Thanks. Kind of what I'm doing, btw. But on a previous bike I used a hook wrench and it was so much nicer a process when the spring starts to get tight. For $10 - $12, might as well. Not a lot of room to fit a hand in there, too.
 
Use a drift/Screwdriver to unlock it (you will never get a hook wrench in there), back off the lock nut and then turn the spring by hand to adjust. Bike should be on a stand so there is no weight on the back end.
 
oregonsage said:
Use a drift/Screwdriver to unlock it (you will never get a hook wrench in there), back off the lock nut and then turn the spring by hand to adjust. Bike should be on a stand so there is no weight on the back end.
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That's what we do.
 
gillies said:
It may be primitive, but a big flat screw driver or drift and deadblow hammer works quite well for me. Use the screw driver to break the lock ring loose, then use your hand to twist the spring to tighen or loosen preload as needed. Use the screwdriver and deadblow to retighten the lock ring - not too much...

Sorry to upset everyone with the "ad" comment. I offered respect and was just sayn'. I have conducted positive business with both Motosportz and Zipty and would recommend both. There is also, IMO, somethig to be said for folks helping each other out when DIY is an option as well. Which, I know, Tinken and Motosportz do as well. Just lately...
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I just reread this. You said to turn the spring by hand. I read it as turning the the top ring by hand. Turning the spring makes sense. I would never have thought of that.
 
Right, the spring should turn the ring nut as you turn the spring.

I did it the hard way for years until I learned this trick.
 
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