Hello everyone!
Have bought myself a full carbon fork and encountered a problem. No matter the tightening of the stem/top cap and stuff, the fork goes backnforth while I push the brakes to test it. I used all details used previous of steel fork plus the crown race which I have got with the fork.
So two questions.
First, I do have few tiiiiiiiny really tiiiiny spacers which came with the headset. Iirc they were meant to be placed upon compression sleeve. I tried with them and without them with the same result.are they really needed, or maybe I place them in the wrong place?
Second, what might be the reason for fork being loose? Did watch many guides and vids but they do not differ from what I do, except for three tiny spacers.
As for stem and carbon spacers, the top one goes above the stem to make sure its tightened down.
by Otherwise-Slide5020
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Are you setting the top-cap tension (ie. Bearing pre-load) BEFORE you tighten the stem clamp bolts?
The stem needs to be free to slide up and down the steerer tube, just like the spacers, or you are not actually loading the bearings… You are just loading the (already fixed) stem….
This is a very common mistake….
Set the bearing pre-load, THEN adjust the handlebars to right angle to the front wheel, and lock the steering position by tightening the stem onto the steerer tube.
Use the crown race that came with the headset, not one that came with the fork.
The spacers should sit on top of the compression ring, but they aren’t likely to have anything to do with your issue.