• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

WR390 fork adjustment

T

treharne

Husqvarna
Hi, I have put together a pretty nice WR390, it runs and rides amazing for the most part, however I am curious about an issue with the forks, when I do a wheelie and the front tire comes off the ground there is a noticeable clunk in the forks as they reach their full extension. Is this normal? I am going to change the fork oil and see if that fixes things but is there something else I should be looking at? As far as I can tell its stock and in good condition, there is no binding or other issues.
Thanks

Nothing I do seems to allow me to post a picture to this site and have it the right way up...not sure what that is all about. View attachment 104840 for your help and Ive attached a pic of the bike.
 
1. The rings at the top of the dampening rods are worn out or broken
2. You are using fork oil that is to light of wt.
3. not enough oil in the forks.

Marty
 
Available from HVA-factory.com, Racetech and some other vintage suppliers. Referred to as several different names: fork piston bands, top out washers, damping rod washers as well damping rod rings or piston rings...

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While you're in there, clean the INSIDE of those chrome tubes as good as you can. They were very poorly finished from the factory, often rough and rusty. That is why the lifespan on these rings is often not so good. The newer rings all seem to be made from better plastic, too.
 
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