The old upper and lower cups popped out without too much trouble with a bit of persuasion from the wooden mallet and punch. The new Shimano 600 cups went in with just hand pressure, with a couple little taps on the the bottem cup with a brass drift and the mallet.
Does that mean they aren't tight enough? I don't know, they feel good to me.
The bottom race, on the fork, took a bit more pounding, but it finally came off.
Surprise, surprise, whoever put it on last time used a piece of a Pepsi can to shim it!
Shades of Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintainence!
Hey, it worked...
Now, as to putting the new bottom race on...not so much. It would only go on so far, and didn't seem to be a close enough fit so I didn't feel comfortable pounding it home. So there it sits.
I also tried GENTLY threading the upper race on to the fork...no go. The old upper race goes on, but it's VERY loose. The old lock nut won't go back on, either.
How about those threads?
They look a little wierd up at the top.
Here's the other side.
I don't know what happened to the camera flash, but you can see the threads don't look wonderful.
I guess I'm going to have to break down and take the fork to a shop to be looked at. I don't want to spend a zillion dollers for a tool I'll only use once.
Oh well! Adventures in bicycle repair!
1 comment:
Take a look at the Park Tools website :
http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=127
It shows the various procedures and the tools necessary to do the work. Often you can improvise.
Good luck!
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