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I decided to give my hope headset a clean tonight, took it apart (something I've done loads of times) and upon tightening it back up it just will not tighten up properly
I can see visible rocking back and forth of the forks when it's as tight as I can preload bolt get it and the stem bolts torqued too
It was fine before this and had no movement whatso ever the bearings are new as in under a month old as is the frame and they are smooth too
Suppose to be riding Sunday please can anyone give me any pointers? Everything is put backtogether in the correct order too
Did you forget a spacer? Enough space between the stem and top cap?
Do you have a star fangled nut or a Hope head doctor.
Bearings in the right way up?
Over tightened head doctor/star nut and pulled it back up the steerer column, meaning its touching the top cap an won't tighten?
You put the silver shims in between the retainer clip and the top cap?
Spacers the same and fitted back the same defo not that as shop set it up like that from new
It's a star fangled nut but using a hope headset and top cap and screw
Maybe a good call on the star nut, how deep in the steerer tube should the star nut sit? Could be an obvious way of telling if that's the issue
Thanks folks
Did it come with a crown race?
Yep all official hope stuff and official crown race with the seal on it
Bahh....he did'nt get it.Crushed I am 😥
Are you using centrelock discs? Sometimes they give the appearance of the headset rocking.
Rorsarch you've lost me.........
Not the discs nor loose adaptor as I said I can physically see the forks rocking back and forth in the head tube
Any other ideas?
I had extra spacers with mine,if you have problems I can send you some to try.
Cheers ricky
But the problem wasnt there a few hours ago before I started to fettle
It was tight and solid so it's not something that's missing or not worked, it was working absolutely fine before
Since I've come to tighten it back up it just won't tighten enough it's like its not tightening the Bearings like the screw is almost redundant
Daft suggestion but is there any chance you need to take a few mm off the steerer tube,or have you tightened the stem before the top cap,just a thought,it's probably the simplest annoying thing lol
Nope it was working fine before the shop managed to get it tight and ive had it over a month so it's been fine for a month
Came to clean it up today and put it back together the same and bang.... It just wont tighten enough to stop the rocking ie a loose headset
[quote=scotroutes ]Bearings in the right way up?
Bearings in the correct way yep I've not actually removed them so there's no way they can turn themselves upside down without removing them plus I looked at them and they are in correctly
Absolutely stumped as to what I've done guess I'll be begging a shop tomoz to see if they can rescue me 🙁
Ah rorsarch remember that thread now lol
You clean a headset? 😯
thread on star nut gone . take the top cap off and try to do the bolt up .
Really want to know what's up with it now,I had problems when I first fitted mine,bloody smooth when it comes together though,bombproof headsets.
Embarrassing post of the day award goes to......
Oooopps turns out in my stressed head last night I was missing something fairly obvious , gold star to those who said headset spacer 😳
I still for the life of me cannot find the said mystery spacer but it was indeed that. Kept looking at it last night thinking sone thing isn't quite right and then it hit me! All sorted now
Thanks again, you live and learn
Now just hope the Hoover doesn't suck it up and break the damn thing or Mrs will be even more peed off at me than she was last night
Hahaha, classic. Who sorted it for Ya then?
Glad you got it sorted,and I have some iff anyone ever needs any.
1st rule of fettling.Blame yourself first (no matter how sure you are it is'nt you.....there is no end to the depths to human stupidity).
eg. Spending 40 minutes bleeding a rear caliper...using the front lever.
or 9sp chain on 10sp drivetrain.
I could go on 😳
😆
I had a vision in bed last night, I kept picturing the top cap and something wasn't sitting right with it in my head 😆
I knew when I got up this morning it was defo that as I looked at a pic I've taken recently and there was one more spacer above the stem
I still cannot for the life of me find said spacer so went shop this morning get one 😆
Disaster avoided, and mental state repaired all is good in the world again
All in all all I can say is 😆
I fitted my new mix match headset to my new frame in the week.. It was rocking like a 50s disco.
Actually putting the lower bearing in solved that though.. :/
It had fallen on the floor!
DrP
OP - total change of subject... but did you ever sell that maxle from a couple of months back?
Send me an email if you still have it (as you've not got an email address on here).
roberttaylormatthews@googlemail.com
Cheers