nexusheli wrote:Jonny R wrote:But where do you put the little widget with the cross shape that i can see down the head tube?
What advantage do pinarello see in this method? They got stock in a mallet company?
It's actually a really cool system. I doesn't need any adjustment once you get everything seated properly, though it can be a pain.
Yours won't be as bad as some of the newer frames, but yes, if you take it apart, when you go to put the fork back in, you'll want to put a 1x4 wrapped with some rags or an old piece of carpet between the legs against the lower crown and whack the 1x4 with a mallet hard.
It's a pretty foolproof system, it lasts a long time before you need to replace the bearings, and it's nearly impossible to mess it up like some other integrated systems through mal-adjustment.
Who knows, maybe one day we will see Pinarello sledge-hammers.
Bearing press!!!!!
Ill post some pictures.
the best method is to that a headset presser - normally the cyclus one will do the trick
then to place two on the park tool crown tool (the blue ones are in the exact pinarello bearing size) put the two blue crown setters on the headset cups presser and allign them on the outer area
then you just converted the headset press into a PINARELLO HEADSET press and voila!!!
4 minutes and you have the entire system mounted back on!!!
now to press the fork in:
1. you push the fork in as much as it goes in
2. use the Pinarello cup as a fork puller - now you know why its so heavy.
mount the internal part on the fork
put two spacers
rotate the cup -->> the fork will move up - more correct the fork will be polled updards.
3. release the tension and add or remove one more spaces and reture section to 2.
4. do this 2-3 section untill the fork is mounted correctly!!!
please do not wack a pinarello frame or I'll come looking for you
I'll see if I have some photoes for you about the procedure
Erez
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