Originally Posted by
sunburst
If you guys are saying I need to dismantle the entire thing and take out a bearing or two, that's what I'll do. But what's the effect of too many bearings: reliability? this loosening problem I've got?
I haven't wanted to disassemble based on a "rule of thumb", unless it was absolutely necessary.
Also: "crown nut" = lock nut?
Crown nut = top nut
As far as bearing go put as many in there as you can. Forget that -1 or -2 buisness. The only time you run into an issue is if you put to many in and they dont properly sit in the race and stack up.
I think what we're trying to say to you is pull the stem and take a picture of the inside of the fork at the top with all of the headset parts installed so we can see what your talking about.