Mumonkan

blast that bolt with wd40 and let it soak in for a min, then hit it again and try and crank on it. if all else fails: drill

that shimano thingy is 1 of 2 headset cups and its what the bearings roll on when the fork is in there
you dont really need to take it out, but you can fashion a tool if you feel the need to
just make sure its as clean as can be on the inside and theres no rust or indexing

also make sure youre greasing the proper stuff when you put all this back together

pfdun

Thanks heaps Mumonkan, really good advice, will give this a go tomorrow and get some pics up

Bat56

That cup should only be removed if you REALLY want to paint this thing correctly. You are going to have to put it back and that's not noob work. Painting around it, however, is definitely half-ass.

You should reconsider this paint job. Clean the bike up, grease everything, and ride it. If you really want paint do it later.

Nagrom_

It might just be in my head, but in some of the pics, the weld between headtube and downtube looks cracked, and the fork doesn't look like its seating correctly with the headset, looks like it's bent. This might be why it was thrown out.

Take some more pics of the front end.

pfdun

More pics Nagrom, what do you think? There doesn't look to be any cracks at all. Well at least I hope not. I think i'll take your advice Bat and put it all together when the rest of my parts get here, but how would I go about getting that second cup off? For future reference.





Thanks.

seau grateau

Looks okay to me.

Mumonkan

same tool just put it through the other side.
park tool makes a "real" one but its like 30 bucks and 2 feet of emt pipe is like, $2

i concur with waiting on the paint too, ride it for a month or so and see if you love it enough

Nagrom_

I'm seeing a large elliptical something in both pics. The paint chips in the second pic run tangent to the inside of the shape I'm seeing.

Might be crazy.

Mumonkan

i chalked that up to removed stickers?

Nagrom_

The headbadge is still on there, so idk what stickers would be there.

pfdun

Yeah there were thick clear stickers half peeled off where those marks are. So slide a bit of pipe through the downtube and it will pop the other cup off?

Bat56

I'm seeing that too. Like there was an oval sticker on both sides of the headtube. Good eye.

I make my cup removers out of whatever I can find, usually PVC pipe. I've also been known to use screwdrivers, pieces of wood, and other garbage.

Nagrom_

Ok, good. Just checking, couldn't tell if they were massive dents or not, haha.

Take a LARGE flat head screwdriver and place it on the inside lip of the cup, give it a few healthy taps, now rotate 180 and keep doing it.
You have to hit pretty damn hard.
Once they're out, you're going to need to take it to a bike shop to be reinstalled. You don't need to take them out, really.

Bat56

Not really "slide a bit if pipe" - the pipe should have vertical cuts as shown in the mtbr link. Did you look at that. And you don't really slide it, you smack it. With a hammer or a brick. Preferably a dead blow malet. You need to watch a video. Or ten. There are lots of ways to screw it up. One of which is not catching the cup and sending it flying. But you are in Australia so it will probably come back to you if that happens.

pfdun

Awesome, heading to Bunnings tomorrow so i'll pick up some PVC & give it a go

Mumonkan

nah:


yeah

Nagrom_

I've got one of those, lol.

Mumonkan

+1, works fantastically

Bat56

Yup

LesterOfPuppets

Stickers were probably those clear stickers to keep cable housing rub from rubbing off paint - helicopter tape

pfdun

Fwoah what on earth is that contraption?! Think i'll take the safe option and just get the bloke from the bike shop to take it off for me when and if I need it done. Thanks for all the help guys, I really appreciate it!

Mumonkan

its just a big screw, some washers and some nuts, crank on both sides and it pushes them back in

twss?

pfdun

Last night all my parts & tools arrived So this morning I put the bike together to see how she handles. Fitting the chain was the biggest pain in the ass to date because stupid me didn't take the time to measure how many links I needed to take out, I took out too many & then couldn't run the chain on the bigger chainring because there wasn't enough chain. So I'm running it off the smaller one DUHHH made an absolute knobhead of myself with that one.



I was just going to use the smaller chainring but the bolts that go through the two were too long for just the one and wouldn't tighten anymore so I had to use both although i'm running the bike off the smaller one at the moment.





Gusset Bachelor Tensioner



Thar she goes! All thats left is to wrap the bars and it's all done, until I want to paint her that is