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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE250 2009 Fork Stiction

E

Eoin

Husqvarna
AA Class
The previous owner had the seals on the 50 mm Marzocchi forks changed before I bought the bike because they were leaking. There seems to be a LOT of stiction on the forks. Will this bed in with some miles? Is it possibly down to seal material / brand and better seals will fix this?
 
OK, so I stripped it down this morning and the forks seem fine individually. Seems that whoever did the seal job was a bit slack on their reassembly technique! Seals are very poor though, and the axle / spacer grooved, so new parts on order before it goes back together.
 
I would also change the fork oil and give them a thorough clean. It’s common for dirt to get past the seals and settle in the damper valve assembly at the bottom of fork. The resulting sludge makes the fork action stiff.
 
Ive had the same problem on all my Huskys 2011 and two 2014. I have had them apart more than I can count. A couple of weeks ago I switched forks with my GG 2018 and it worked like a dream. I have done all service by myself the last 30 years. The shimstacks are almost identical and I have NEVER had any other problems with sticky forks. Not before the Huskys and not after. As I still have one left as an extra bike, Im trying to find the problem every year. Now I suspect that the wheel axle is out of specs and the same with all Huskys between 2010-2014. Ill get back in some weeks with the answer on that.
 
hhdwtmtw said:
I would also change the fork oil and give them a thorough clean. It’s common for dirt to get past the seals and settle in the damper valve assembly at the bottom of fork. The resulting sludge makes the fork action stiff.
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It's basically unused since a seal change done by the PO, so new oil. Not sure what grade though.
 
Check your axle. I had to file mine down around the outside edge where it had flared out. It wasn’t allowing the right fork leg to center itself before I tightened it down.
 
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