Help with removing fork from stem?
10-12-08 | 12:35 AM
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Help with removing fork from stem?
Hi,
im converting an Old road bike to a fixie.
i have removed everything except one part.
The forks are stuck to the stem (older bike).
I can rotate them, but i cant pull them apart, i have unscrewed everything, i just cant pull them.
Any tips to help?
thanks
im converting an Old road bike to a fixie.
i have removed everything except one part.
The forks are stuck to the stem (older bike).
I can rotate them, but i cant pull them apart, i have unscrewed everything, i just cant pull them.
Any tips to help?
thanks
10-12-08 | 01:15 AM
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When you say that you can rotate them but can't pull them up, do you mean you can turn the stem and fork back and forth with each other or against each other? There's going to be a bolt on top of the stem that you just need to loosen. If they stem is simply seized inside the steerer, you can probably put enough leverage on the fork with a wheel in it to break it loose.
10-12-08 | 03:43 AM
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I removed the bolt on top. But the my bike is old so the stem is connected to the headset all in one piece.
Ive unloosed everything, the only thing is that the forks is still connected to the stem. I can rotate the stem against the fork (such that the wheels is not aligned with handlebars) but i cant seem to pop them out of each other.
Ive unloosed everything, the only thing is that the forks is still connected to the stem. I can rotate the stem against the fork (such that the wheels is not aligned with handlebars) but i cant seem to pop them out of each other.
10-12-08 | 04:12 AM
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Thread the bolt back into the stem slightly and give it a good whack with a 2x4 to make sure the wedge bolt has dropped loose.
You might want to give Sheldon Browns website a gander.
You might want to give Sheldon Browns website a gander.
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10-12-08 | 07:35 AM
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I would thread it in more than "slightly" before whackin'. Need more than a thread or two if it is stuck bad.
10-12-08 | 08:14 AM
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And I second the "whack" theory of quill stem removal.
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10-12-08 | 09:45 AM
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Gee Wally, what would we have done without your insight?
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
10-12-08 | 09:47 AM
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10-12-08 | 10:07 AM
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Destroyed threads.
I've basically been wrenching my whole life.... I fix up/restore old motorcycles/bikes and used to repair/maintain really old industrial saws and generators. I use caution when using a hammer to persuade stuck bits like stem shims.
Sorry for trying to help, ass.
I've basically been wrenching my whole life.... I fix up/restore old motorcycles/bikes and used to repair/maintain really old industrial saws and generators. I use caution when using a hammer to persuade stuck bits like stem shims.
Sorry for trying to help, ass.
