|   cleaning front fork bearings | brad nicholson
Nov 26, 2003 11:15 AM | | what is the best way to clean the front fork bearings? i have never done this and want to make sure it is done right without damaging the fork or bearings. advice? |
| Use your left-handed monkey wrench! | El Kabong
Nov 26, 2003 11:32 AM | | Brad, unless you have a Cannondale fork, there aren't any bearings in it. No offense, but take it to a shop. Or buy Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance and read it cover to cover before you start taking anything apart.
El K. |
| Use your left-handed monkey wrench! | brad nicholson
Nov 26, 2003 11:58 AM | | i ride a trek 8000 and have an upper and lower set of bearings in my front headset that is what i meant. what is the best method to cleaning them? sorry for the mix-up |
| What kind of headset is it you are trying to service? nm | Damion
Nov 26, 2003 1:15 PM | | |
| This will require you to remove the fork | AK Ken
Nov 26, 2003 2:24 PM | | to access the bearings. You'll have to remove your top cap and stem, and disconnect the front brake from the fork. Then, depending on what you see, lift the top bearings out of the headset and take the bottom bearings off the crown race on the fork.
Keep track of which is which and how they were oriented up and down. Wash them in a non flammable solvent, clean off all the old grease and muck from the races (where the bearings ride), regrease the bearings, and put it all back together.
Ken |
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