BMX - lower gyro

It's really nice out, so I decided to work on my bike. I started off fine, but I'm having difficulty getting my lower gyro off. I've hit it with a hammer and tried poking it with a screwdriver to wedge it out but can't get it out. What should I do? Also, for some odd reason, the dual cable won't come out.

It's really nice out, so I decided to work on my bike. I started off fine, but I'm having difficulty getting my lower gyro off. I've hit it with a hammer and tried poking it with a screwdriver to wedge it out but can't get it out. What should I do? Also, for some odd reason, the dual cable won't come out.

bigger hammer??
cutting torch??
OH!!! 10-ton press (or larger...)









(sorry...i don't know the 'real' answer!)

Yeah, the hammer seems to do nothing other than bend it.

Maybe here: gyro removal (http://www.pedalbmx.com/Posts/View/214129:gyro-removal)

I need more info on the lower gyro.

i tried...

Thank you. I forgot to say it and didn't mean it to sound the way it did. I looked on a lot of boards and googled it and couldn't find anything useful.

Saw, thats how i got mine off

There has to be an easier way. I'm about ready to just cut all my brakes off. Too much work.

did you try the mechanics forum? You never know

Saw

Good movie/s.

Definatly, still need to see the 3rd though

Good stuff. The things in there even made me cringe. They were really nasty.

Definatly, still need to see the 3rd though

It's awesome. The one part where a girl dies is gay though.

Naah, it's all good.

Naah, it's all good.

I love that movie.

Just grab a sawzall and a metal cutting blade and chop anyhting that has to do with braking.

That's starting to sound like a good idea.

It's what i did, never regretted it

Word.

So, can anyone actually help me? Do you guys need pictures?

The lover gyro tabs are held on by being pressed undernieth the top headset cup. Take your fork off, get a big flathead screw driver and put the head in throught the bottom of the head tube and rest it against the inside lip of the headset cup. Tap it out with a hammer. Rotate the screwdriver head to different spots on the inside of the cup, it will come out faster, and with less chance of messing stuff up. If your headset cups have never been removed it should take fairly hard hits to tap it out, don't be afraid to hit it hard.

Oh, okay. I guess that would make sense to why just beating my gyro senseless with a hammer didn;t get it off. Thanks, I'll try that tomorrow. It's 11:30 right now and I don't think my parents would appreciate the sounds of a hammer.

Get pics.

Bike shop.

Woah it's that simple.

I don't want to take it to a bikeshop because:
1. It should be simple enough that I can do it
2. I don't like other people touching my bike
3: My mom won't let me take my bike anywhere to get it fixed
4: It would be there for a few days for a relatively simple thing

Okay, the headset came flying off with a mighty pound of the hammer and that is all done. The problem is putting everything above the headset back together again and I have no idea what to do. Anyone good with that stuff?

Post a picture with all the parts laying on a table and I will number them in which order they go.

Word. I'll do that tomorrow. It's almost 12:00 right now and I have school tomorrow.

Okay, the headset came flying off with a mighty pound of the hammer and that is all done. The problem is putting everything above the headset back together again and I have no idea what to do. Anyone good with that stuff?
Do it old school.

Get a 2x4 and put the cup of the headset ont he frame and tap it in, once it's partially in pound it the rest in. Go slow at first so it goes in straight.

The put the bearings and crap back in and make sure to grease 'em up. Put all the spacers back and obviously not your gyro plate.

Put up some pictures if you run into trouble.

usually whatever fits pretty good without alot of force is right

Do it old school.

Get a 2x4 and put the cup of the headset ont he frame and tap it in, once it's partially in pound it the rest in. Go slow at first so it goes in straight.

The put the bearings and crap back in and make sure to grease 'em up. Put all the spacers back and obviously not your gyro plate.

Put up some pictures if you run into trouble.
I did the first part, but all of the other things I don't know what to do with. Everything is still pretty greased up, so not much to do in that department.

EDIT: I guess I'm going to need more spacers, because I don't want to cut my steerer tube and then one day buy an Elementary stem and not be able to fit it.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e6/HollaAtchaBoii/DSC02470.jpg
I could have sworn there were more pieces, but here it is.

My picture vanished?

eaten by the internet demon

EDIT: I guess I'm going to need more spacers, because I don't want to cut my steerer tube and then one day buy an Elementary stem and not be able to fit it.
I had the same worries when i cut the steerer(sp?) tube on my Odyssey forks and got a new frame. But fortunatley it all worked out. Most stems will have the same stack height, at least i'd bet my forks on it.

EDIT:And by stack height i mean how tall it is where the steerer tube goes in, not how high it will make your bars.

The Elementary does have a high stack height though... and somehow, I got everything to work, with exception of my wheel being a little crooked (which should hopefully be easily fixed). My only problem is that I took off my gyro, and have one spacer less than I did before. I can't figure it out because it just doesn't look right if I have a spacer on.