macrophotofly
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- Aug 27, 2012
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Swapping out the (heavy) front forks on my wifes MTB for some nice lightweight rigid ones. All going well apart from the headset. Part of the lower headset (the part that the bearing sits on) is stuck on the old forks. The part (I think its called the crown race?) wouldn't budge after some force applied with screwdriver/hammer -
Any ideas how I can get another one to fit on the new forks with the existing headset?
I'm hoping I won't need to buy an entire new headset as the rest of it is press-fitted into the frame and would take some force and the right tools to extract (plus headsets aren't exactly cheap!). I have the full headset part number on the top headset - Cane Creek VP-A76C but I can't locate that either.
The bike is a Trek 4500 MTB circa 2010-11
Any ideas how I can get another one to fit on the new forks with the existing headset?
I'm hoping I won't need to buy an entire new headset as the rest of it is press-fitted into the frame and would take some force and the right tools to extract (plus headsets aren't exactly cheap!). I have the full headset part number on the top headset - Cane Creek VP-A76C but I can't locate that either.
The bike is a Trek 4500 MTB circa 2010-11
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