Big Success (mostly) moving cassette

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:32:32 GMT, dgk <[email hidden]> may

have said:

(continued from Dismal Failure post)

Ok, chainwhip and lockring tool, along with Marvel Mystery Oil and a
monkey wrench, have combined to move the cassette from the old wheel
to the new. The gears didn't work right at first, so I took off the
cassette and noticed that the spacer on the old wheel was thinner than
the spacer on the new one. I used the old one and now all the gears
line up correctly, except the highest gear. It won't shift far enough
to go to that one.

The cassette has five gears joined together, and six and seven are
separate. I'm not sure that I got that last one one correctly. It only
goes so far onto the hub and then stops. I have to go out now but I'll
come back later and see what folks have to say. Maybe I just need to
adjust the gear cable a bit. Or those screws that prevent the
"overshoot".

The screws in question are called limit stops (among other things,
some of which may be quite colorful at times), and yes, you doubtless
need to adjust the high limit stop. You would probably be well
advised to adjust both, in fact.

This may be helpful:

http://sheldonbrown.com/derailer-adjustment.html

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Werehatrack said:

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:32:32 GMT, dgk <[email hidden]> may

have said:

(continued from Dismal Failure post)

Ok, chainwhip and lockring tool, along with Marvel Mystery Oil and a
monkey wrench, have combined to move the cassette from the old wheel
to the new. The gears didn't work right at first, so I took off the
cassette and noticed that the spacer on the old wheel was thinner than
the spacer on the new one. I used the old one and now all the gears
line up correctly, except the highest gear. It won't shift far enough
to go to that one.

The cassette has five gears joined together, and six and seven are
separate. I'm not sure that I got that last one one correctly. It only
goes so far onto the hub and then stops. I have to go out now but I'll
come back later and see what folks have to say. Maybe I just need to
adjust the gear cable a bit. Or those screws that prevent the
"overshoot".

The screws in question are called limit stops (among other things,
some of which may be quite colorful at times), and yes, you doubtless
need to adjust the high limit stop. You would probably be well
advised to adjust both, in fact.

This may be helpful:

http://sheldonbrown.com/derailer-adjustment.html

Thanks. Looks complicated sort of. But he suggests that failure to
move to the highest gear is not usually the fault of the limit screw,
but means that other stuff is wrong. I'll work on it tomorrow.