Wheels of Happiness
On my bike ride to Wawa, I noticed the shifting to be hard. The headset problem has been solved. Now its the time to look after the drive train. These were the things I did:
1. First, this post disassembled and soaked the rd and fd in degreaser and cleaned them well. Then the oiled the pivot points. However I could not get the main spring have the proper tension. I could only get
the cage to 90 degrees vertical not at horizontal. Therefore the chain was slack II tried a dozen times to get the tension of spring back.
2. I researched at YT and found out that I have to rotate the cage clockwise by at least 180 degrees. This I could not do since I observed the part that attaches to the cable gets into the way. (You will be surprised that I was not thnking outside the box. ) It looked immovable. The only way out is to move the spring by other means. I gave up on my DIY and went to the bike mechanic, He proposed creating a tool to rotate the spring. Later on he found like solving a puzzle that the parrallelogram can be moved and the cage can be rotated 180 degrees. Voila. I gave him P50.00 for the effort.
3. Then I found out that the cable inside was rusted. So I had to replace the outer too. And so I looked for full length shifter cable and I found one. My waterloo there is inserting the cable at the changer. I entangled a cable before. I had smooth sailing this time. I replaced the outer at the last 20 cm portion of the cable near the RD.
4. It took me 4 tries to get the cable to the right tension. And I had to adjust the limit screws. The bike would not shift to the biggest and smallest gear.
5. Then the rd would not shift back to the lowest gear. I found out that the upper pulley was hitting the chain stay. So thats where the B screw adjustment came in. I scewed in the B screw to clear off the chain stay.
Perfect. Now the Ti MTB is a Ok. But was tired. Finished at 7:00
