Originally Posted by
Korina
You need an allen wrench and spacers for threadless, and an allen wrench for quill. I've never needed a mallet.
The spacers would already be on the bike - you are just moving them from above the stem to below.
So your quill stem bolt is so un-tight that the wedge just falls out of the bottom when you loosen the bolt, no matter how long it has been there?
"If the bolt is loose but the stem will not come out, strike the bolt using a mallet and punch. This will break the wedge free from the head tube."
https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/...on-quill-stems
Originally Posted by
79pmooney
Torque wrenches are never needed for quill and it it's properly greased and not tightened far more than needed, any old object of weight works just fine. No mallet needed. I love that I can change height mid ride and the adjustment is typically a lot more than can be had with most stock threadless steerers. (And no spacers on top when the quill is slammed.)
You don't need a torque wrench to tighten a threadless stem ever if the steerer is steel, and only need it with carbon if you don't have a decent feel of how tight the stem is supposed to be.
I guess I don't understand why someone would need to change their stem height on a ride other than when they are fitting the bike. But I'll add another advantage of threadless: On small bikes, the shorter steerer will often not allow a quill stem to go as far down as a threadless stem due to a taper on the inside of the steerer.
I like threadless and quills, but it is strange how people re-invent the universe to make one seem better than the other.