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  • Am I missing a seal from the top cap of my Hope headset?
  • keppoch
    Full Member

    I have a Hope tapered headset on my bike. I stripped it down at the weekend to clean and noticed that the top cap has an inset section that looks like it would normally house a rubber O ring/seal next to the steerer of the forks. Should there be a seal here?

    I have swapped forks in this bike so I suppose it is possible it dropped out then.

    Frankenstein
    Free Member

    Which Hope Headset do you have exactly?

    Integrated?

    Standard?

    Also you can look at the instructions on Hope’s website?

    keppoch
    Full Member

    Um… integrated I think. The cups are mostly inside the frame. I looked at the Hope website but it only seems to have an exploded diagram for the standard sort.

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    andytherocketeer
    Full Member

    pretty sure mine all have a o-ring in there, to seal it against the steerer

    Frankenstein
    Free Member

    Edit.

    Does it look like this?

    iainc
    Full Member

    Yes, there should be an o ring inside it

    Frankenstein
    Free Member

    The guys are spot on. Top cap is universal and it has an O ring:

    keppoch
    Full Member

    Just looked back and it is a Hope HSC2 top

    Searching for that brings up this that also shows an O-ring:

    http://www.hopetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/44.1-INTEGRAL-headset-instruction.pdf

    Hopefully Hope can sort me out if I call them. Guessing I dropped it somewhere in the fork transfer a few months ago 😳

    Frankenstein
    Free Member

    If you don’t have any luck, local plumbers merchant or B&Q.

    Another users pic:

    keppoch
    Full Member

    Ah, those nice people at Hope are going to sort me out 🙂

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