installing headset bearings!

P3Ripper · 05-18-2004, 06:36 AM

I am getting confused with which way the bearing retainers go into the unsealed type pig headset. I mean in the directions it says the bearing cup that goes in the bottom race cup is placed with bearing side down. The top crown is vice versa. But in the pictorial both bearing retainers are placed with the berarings facing down and the ring facing up. I've installed it with them both the same, ball bearings facing down. It seems to be all good, but I dont know if this is right. Anyone know. Sorry for the potentially retarded question.

Keefer · 05-18-2004, 07:58 AM

Ball bearings should face eachother, bearing side contacting the headset cups, from what I know...

SyC cHyLd · 05-18-2004, 08:59 AM

i just puy a pig in today. On the bottom bearings roll facing down, top im pretty sure they were facing down as well... sounds like you got it right. If it is moving fine then its all good!

switch · 05-18-2004, 09:12 AM

Make sure you put the correct race on the fork. They're almost identical.

05-18-2004, 06:36 AM	#1
P3Ripper Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 17 Rep Power: 0	installing headset bearings! I am getting confused with which way the bearing retainers go into the unsealed type pig headset. I mean in the directions it says the bearing cup that goes in the bottom race cup is placed with bearing side down. The top crown is vice versa. But in the pictorial both bearing retainers are placed with the berarings facing down and the ring facing up. I've installed it with them both the same, ball bearings facing down. It seems to be all good, but I dont know if this is right. Anyone know. Sorry for the potentially retarded question.

05-18-2004, 09:12 AM	#4
switch two foot hucker Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Old Buck Posts: 30,093 Rep Power: 13897290	Make sure you put the correct race on the fork. They're almost identical. __________________ It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. - Josiah Stamp Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. - H.G. Wells

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05-18-2004, 08:59 AM	#3
SyC cHyLd forthelove Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Port Moody, BC Posts: 1,223 Rep Power: 0	i just puy a pig in today. On the bottom bearings roll facing down, top im pretty sure they were facing down as well... sounds like you got it right. If it is moving fine then its all good!