I made the mistake of opening one of my pd7810s because I was concerned it had got water in the bearings. It hadn't, but I had obviously dislodged something because now it will not close. It gets to within about half a mm on the threads compared to how it used to be adjusted, but not all the way. Correct number of bearings installed (17, 9 and the roller bearing) and it hasn't got too much grease in there whilst I figure out what is wrong. How should the bearing retainer on the larger race sit?

Anyone else serviced one of these or can point me towards a how to? The Park one just says don't do it!

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LH pedal is correctly adjusted, RH is not. The first gap between the spindle and the axle cone assembly is too small on the RH pedal, meaning that the axle cone assembly cannot close up snugly to the pedal body. The exploded view
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does not shed any light on how I have managed to move the cone on the spindle, but it certainly didn't require a lot of force! Any help greatly appreciated.

Coincidentally, I've been working on overhauling a set of PD-7810 pedals for the last two days.

I posted about it here:

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My issue is play in the spindle (assembly). I think my problem may be related to the rubber sleeve (wear?) that sits between the spindle and cone piece, but I have yet to find a way to eliminate the play.

For your issue, can you not simply back off on the locknut? There should be a gap there.

Sorry to hear is. In my experience, opening a Shimano pedal is the kiss of death. Once opened- they will die in 6 months.
Shimano pedals usually last forever- but when you get a bad one it is all over.

Thanks guys! Yes, wish I had never touched them. The good side has been perfect from the day I bought them and is buttery smooth after thousands of wet kms. The bad side developed a tiny bit of play but I should never have touched it.

Sanrensho, how do you access the rubber sleeve/get the cone bit off the spindle? Take the circlip off? Yes I can tighten the locknut closer to the pedal body but not far enough, the cone assembly seems to be in the wrong place on the spindle by about a mm and I'm not sure how it got there. The first gap after the pedal thread stopper was about 1.5 mm and is now about half a mom.

See the exploded view chart for the components: http://techdocs.shimano.com/media/techd ... 612675.pdf

The rubber seal should be 'underneath' the ball bearings, on the pedal thread side. Use something small and pointy between the bearings to push the seal down if they interfere with the bearings. If the seal sits correctly, the bearings should fall in to place and should be touching each other (there should not be any gap!) when you push the lock nut towards the circlip. If they do not fall into place while assembling, push the locknut up so the bearings sit in the right place while assembling.

^^ daj, top man, thank you. I don't think the seal is seating properly as the bearings are not sitting together, I will try to push it back gently and then rebuild with fresh balls.

Thanks for this, daj. It sounds like the rubber seal needs to be sitting a certain way when the axle assembly is finally inserted into the body, but I'm having a hard time picturing this.

Do I need to position the rubber seal in the direction of the bearings, so that the seal and sliding part (cone) eliminate any play between the cone, bearings, and circlip? So it's a positioning/play adjustment that needs to be done right before reinserting the axle assembly into the body?

Thanks!

If you send it to me, I will fix it for you. You pay shipping both ways.

Sometime Shimano parts just suck. Overrated and over-engineered and in the last few years over-taxed.

NB. You must use special compound grease when fiddling with them. Similar to Shimano/Dura-Ace grease.