Contigo

How do you take apart the lever part of a DA QR skewer? Duh, I'm not asking how to use a QR.

What I mean is, I'm comparing the more recent DA skewers (like from 7700/9 speed to current) with the older style QR levers from Campagnolo Record or others. With the older stuff, there was an acorn nut that threaded onto the cam part of the lever. (Sometimes a blasted circlip.) Unscrew the acorn nut, along with possibly a small lock washer, and the cam assembly would come out of the housing. You could then clean and grease the cam and reassemble. In fact, you almost had to eventually in order to get smooth high tension on the skewer itself.

With all the newer DA levers, it almost seems like this assembly is a permanent press fit. Is this the case?

Cyclist0108

I have a pair. I see no clear way to take them apart.

I should also add that I see no need to do so.

fietsbob

Why? you can grease lever's the internal cam without taking it apart..

ljsense

Most skewers modern skewers with an internal cam can no longer be disassembled. I think the difference between those and the older Campy skewers is the bushing material of the cam.

HillRider

I have several Shimano qr skewers gathered over the years. Some have a flat-head screw that can be removed to remove the cam lever, others have an E-clip holding the lever in place and some are "blind" and there is no apparent way to disassemble them. I also have a pair of Campy skewers and they have an E-clip retaining the cam lever. There is no obvious pattern to age or component family.

Contigo

My question basically presumed that at some point it might be necessary to grease the cam, as with the older style. Your post clarifies that it probably isn't needed.

thanks

Andrew R Stewart 

I just flush and dry the QR cam/cap (I don't use exposed cam on plastic washer designs, thank you) periodically and then drip in some oil. On shop tune ups I'll spritz in some triflow. Andy

fietsbob

There is spray grease that thickens after it penetrates ..