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<\/p>\nit all started with a bit of time & nothing better to do on a sunday afternoon. the fact that the rear brake had been gripping the disk asymmetrically has not really ever been a problem but being a bit of a perfectionist i was determined to make sure the pistons all moved synchronously.<\/p>\n
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a bit of a clean, a dab of silicone grease and a new set of brake pads to round things off. the old ones were not bad but i decided they would have been worn unevenly and needed to go.<\/p>\n
there was still time left. why not re-grease the suspension links then? i have already told you how that went<\/a> …<\/p>\n i got a set of bearings<\/a> locally – they only took a day to get here – and with a bit of garage voodoo i managed to tap the old ones out and pressed the new ones in. just a little hitch: the threads on the axles<\/a> were ruined.<\/p>\n which begs the question: why were these threads ruined? i have done this work on my old nomad and these axles are supposed to go in easily and it should actually take some skill to round the threads. on order: one m15x1.0 tap from china. delivery time: about 2 weeks.<\/p>\n so i can’t put it all back together for another 2 weeks and since it’s just out there in the garage i really should check a few more things, right? i’ve had the bike for almost a year now and i have no records of if \/ when it was ever serviced.<\/p>\n take\u00a0the fork. the pike is great but it takes quite a bit of punishment; that’s practically it’s job description. prevention is always better and most of the time also much cheaper than throwing away parts that are worn beyond repair due to a lack of maintenance. hence the visible absence of the fork in the picture above: i gave it to a friend who is a real wizard when it comes to ensuring these suspension components are functioning at their best.<\/p>\n the cranks had to come out, too. normally that should not be required to service the links but since i will have to access the axle threads from the rear to run the tap through i had to remove them and the chain guide. the bottom bracket bearing seals (what a mouthful) do look like they may not hang in there for much longer. oh well, bottom brackets are not expensive, easy to replace and while i’m in there ….<\/p>\n this is where the jockey wheels life. they are not in this photo because i took them out. the bearings were running a bit rough so they had to go. new ones should be here in a day or two.<\/p>\n yes, that chainring will have to go too. who knows how many kilometers it has done. chainrings are cheap compared to cassettes (by a factor 4). of course i will need a new chain, too. no point putting an old chain on a new chainring and watch it chew it to bits.<\/p>\n while i am in there … what started as a 20 minute job that cost nothing ended up as a full service. the upside: hopefully another year of shredding without any problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" it all started with a bit of time & nothing better to do on a sunday afternoon. the fact that the rear brake had been gripping the disk asymmetrically has not really ever been a problem but being a bit of a perfectionist i was determined to make sure the pistons all moved synchronously. a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nomad_service_2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MvER-2c4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8442,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions\/8442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/zo-zo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bearings_1.jpg\")
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