Originally Posted by
Pharcyder1406
To all the people who have completed their buildups - what did you do as far as frame prep. (if anything)? Just wondering if it is actually worth it/necessary to have a shop face/bore the head tube and face/chase the BB shell.
There is definitely a good amount of paint in my BB shell, but I will be using a cartridge BB so I am thinking of just using some paint thinner to clean the threads out, grease up the shell, torque the BB down, and be done with it.
All i did was wirebrush the hell out of the BB threads to clean them out, and greased them well with Park Grease. No facing, no chasing, and everything threaded together awesome.
The headset, though, I had a little trouble with. For some reason, it took forever to get tight with no play. I've got it now (although theres a little gap between the bottom cup and the carbon fork?) so its tight, and it rides good, with no prep there either. Just greased the living daylights out of the cups.