Headset problem. NEED HELP! video up.

[NickGraham.]

cups arent bent. and I tried not using the dust cover, just the starnut and same issue but worse.

 

[dezbert]

Try stock forks, cuz maybe it's the race on your Inwards?

 

[NickGraham.]

Great thread this...LOL. Try differant forks

tried different forks. a pro model, and an a model, and my inwards. its not the forks.

 

[dezbert]

lol sry....i didn't read the thread at all, i was just trying to help. Sry haha

 

[NickGraham.]

its all goood.

 

[EvanLarson.]

hammer in the bottom cup more it looks way out and make sure your fsa sealed bearing race is on your forks all the way - also maybe try to flip the sealed bearings over theres little grove on the side that shold be facing down

 

[NickGraham.]

yea, I cant get the bottom cup in any farther at the moment. but thats not the problem because I had a stock one hammered in ALL the way and there was still the stiffness. Im pretty sure its an issue with the top cup, but I dont know what.

 

[maxlikesscooters]

yeah i had that problem exactly
so my fsa was fine on this one fork..then i put it on a new stock fork. it would keep getting loose or be too tight. so then i switched to stock headset. that headset didnt work. i switched back again..but like cleaned my headset and it worked again. but also i think i might of had the top cup upside down.

LOL WTF how can you even put it on upside down without realising???

well first off im pretty retarded
2nd i know very little about headsets

 

[JonnyJonDogg]

haha

 

[EvanLarson.]

are your bearings from the stock headset broken or bent? and try to use a diffrnt stock dust cover that one might be bent. that happend to me a while back

 

[NickGraham.]

nope. got two brand new ones cause I thought that too but no luck. and tried two dust covers and both are not bent at all.

 

[humpurple kushiones]

you have to make it not to loose and not to tight. i dont care much so i let my headset wiggle alittle

 

[NickGraham.]

well when I let it jiggle at all, after about five minutes its like rediculously loose and I feel like my bars or forks could snap.

 

[humpurple kushiones]

ohhhh lol once you have it were it feels perfect, put that big nut on top and make sure its tight (the top one not the dust cover) then put your pars all the war down on the forktube and tighten it. after 5 minutes it MIGHT wiggle alittle but it wont get that wiggly

 

[NickGraham.]

been there done that. same story, gets super loose real quick.

 

[Joe Manson]

it looks like the FSA cup isnt in far enough

 

[NickGraham.]

yea, I cant get the bottom cup in any farther at the moment. but thats not the problem because I had a stock one hammered in ALL the way and there was still the stiffness. Im pretty sure its an issue with the top cup, but I dont know what.

 

[JonnyJonDogg]

tighten the clamp AMAZINGLY tight

 

[NickGraham.]

did. I mean like so tight that I popped something in my hand from pushing on the allen key. to the point where I could stand on the allen key haha.

 

[byreen]

i had the same problem when i used all stock. I just took the bearings out, clean the cups with a rag and the bearings and let them soak in 2 in 1 oil and put it all back together and it worked amazing for a really long time.