Aside from the nice alliteration of "Bottom Bracket Bearing", there's nothing nice about it. At least mine anyway. Bike is a Trek 4300, not 6 months old and already the drive side bearing makes so much noise it probably registers on the Richter scale. My question to the experts is: Can this bearing be removed from the large sleeve that it is in? If so, how? The bearing on the non-drive side is numbered 163110-2RS and comes right out. It appears to be in good shape. I'm guessing the drive side must be the same part number - if you can get to it. Thanks in advance for the help!
PS - I have the piece in my hand and can read off any other part #'s if need be.
Aside from the nice alliteration of "Bottom Bracket Bearing", there's nothing nice about it. At least mine anyway. Bike is a Trek 4300, not 6 months old
At that age, I believe it should still be under warranty. If so, assuming that you're the first owner, there's no reason to be fiddling with it at all; take it to the dealer and let them fix it.
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and already the drive side bearing makes so much noise it probably registers on the Richter scale. My question to the experts is: Can this bearing be removed from the large sleeve that it is in?
Not non-destructively as far as I have been able to determine.
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If so, how? The bearing on the non-drive side is numbered 163110-2RS and comes right out. It appears to be in good shape. I'm guessing the drive side must be the same part number - if you can get to it. Thanks in advance for the help!
PS - I have the piece in my hand and can read off any other part #'s if need be.
Assuming that a warranty repair isn't an option for some reason, rather than trying to save a few bucks with a kludge, why not just spend the $25 to get a new BB assembly and put it in? I'm pretty sure that the 4300 wears a conventional square-taper BB whcih can be had for a reasonable price from a multitude of sources. -- Typoes are a feature, not a bug. Some gardening required to reply via email. Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.
Aside from the nice alliteration of "Bottom Bracket Bearing", there's nothing nice about it. At least mine anyway. Bike is a Trek 4300, not 6 months old and already the drive side bearing makes so much noise it probably registers on the Richter scale. My question to the experts is: Can this bearing be removed from the large sleeve that it is in? If so, how? The bearing on the non-drive side is numbered 163110-2RS and comes right out. It appears to be in good shape. I'm guessing the drive side must be the same part number - if you can get to it. Thanks in advance for the help!
PS - I have the piece in my hand and can read off any other part #'s if need be.
Aside from the nice alliteration of "Bottom Bracket Bearing", there's nothing nice about it. At least mine anyway. Bike is a Trek 4300, not 6 months old and already the drive side bearing makes so much noise it probably registers on the Richter scale. My question to the experts is: Can this bearing be removed from the large sleeve that it is in? If so, how? The bearing on the non-drive side is numbered 163110-2RS and comes right out. It appears to be in good shape. I'm guessing the drive side must be the same part number - if you can get to it. Thanks in advance for the help!
PS - I have the piece in my hand and can read off any other part #'s if need be.
6 months? Go to the dealer-warranty is in order.
REI Online has a basic one for $17, delivered to my door. The bike shop is 25 miles from my house (@ $3/gallon that's too far). I have issues with the shop, anyway. I've shredded 2 wheels that they've supposedly trued. I finally broke down and bought a dial indicator off eBay and measured myself - only to find out that their definition of true and my definition varied by about 30 mils. Spoke tension was an issue, too - you can't true a wheel by loosening a spoke so much that it's basically not even there in a mechanical sense. So, long story, but that's why I don't like the shop. I just wish they'd pay me every time I fix one of their mistakes...
Thanks for the help, guys! Enjoy the fall riding weather!
