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Help with removing BB and head set please!

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pickle:

--- Quote from: mr.magoo on November 24, 2008, 02:51 PM ---and i thought my primitive no patience method would get a right slating :uglystupid2:

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it's the only way!  :daumenhoch:

Tony 1-4:
Thanks guys, thats that bit sorted. Now what about the ring on the bottom of the forks for the headset?

pickle:
well the way i do it is to get a big flat screwdriver and a rag, then with the rag on the forks to stop the risk of marks i prize the bearing race off the forks a bit at a time  :daumenhoch:

moley:
I use the whack technique rather than the prising technique!!

I use the same socket extension bar.

I hold the forks steerer tube with my feet and  bang the crown race off with one hand holding the dropout and the extension bar.

Use rags to avoid any marks!

The other hand is used to whack it with a hammer.  Its easier to get off then to get on.   Tap it all around and it soon comes off.

It would be easier with 3 hands or another person helping but it isn't too hard to do.

Spen69:
Don't forget to wind an old headset nut on top of the forks in case you bugger up the thread.

I use a large shifter, ie adjustable spanner, open it out and tap that with the hamer working round in a circle. Works every time.

Agreed on the "need three people" comment though :2funny:

Spen

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