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09-30-10, 07:03 PM
I looked at the park tool site and they don't have anything on carbon steer tubes, and I tried the search function and it sucks.
There's a creaking sound coming from my head tube. It happens ONLY when I turn left and never when I turn right. Which leads me to believe its part of the bearings/races issue. But I don't know where to start. I took the stem and fork out and looked at the bearings, but I had no idea what I was looking for. Before I took it apart, the creaking didn't happen regularly, and usually only on climbs, which makes me believe it happens when I'm pulling hard on the bars. I rode around the parking lot for a couple minutes, and it didn't happen, but that doesn't surprise me because it happens so irregularly. Any other things I should check in the head tube/steer tube?
As hard as I tried, I could not find any instructions for the carbon steer tube compression plug things. The visible bolt on the cap screws into the inside of another bolt on the inside of the steer tube and I have no idea what the purpose of this is. Is the internal bolt supposed to be tight or not? When I took it apart, this bolt was loose, but I assume once the outside bolt was added it made it tight.
There's a creaking sound coming from my head tube. It happens ONLY when I turn left and never when I turn right. Which leads me to believe its part of the bearings/races issue. But I don't know where to start. I took the stem and fork out and looked at the bearings, but I had no idea what I was looking for. Before I took it apart, the creaking didn't happen regularly, and usually only on climbs, which makes me believe it happens when I'm pulling hard on the bars. I rode around the parking lot for a couple minutes, and it didn't happen, but that doesn't surprise me because it happens so irregularly. Any other things I should check in the head tube/steer tube?
As hard as I tried, I could not find any instructions for the carbon steer tube compression plug things. The visible bolt on the cap screws into the inside of another bolt on the inside of the steer tube and I have no idea what the purpose of this is. Is the internal bolt supposed to be tight or not? When I took it apart, this bolt was loose, but I assume once the outside bolt was added it made it tight.