Tight/Loose Headset

[btyczki21]

alrite so i hav the Cane Creek S-3 Headset and when i go to tighten the headset it is extremley hard to spin. but when i lossen it literally an 1/8 of a turn the clamp spins and the forks stay in place. the nut has locktight or watever its called nowadays so am i just not tightening it enough? and do i just have to let it sit for a day cuz i searched and thats the best answer i culd find.

 

[nitroRCs]

Tighten it just enough so yours forks dont move.

It could be very touchy, but once you get it right, then you tighten the look nut down, and you will be sweet.

 

[btyczki21]

how do i do that lol (tighten the lock nut)i feel like a damn retard 4 asking but i gotta learn sumhow rite

 

[nitroRCs]

Umm. You need to get 2 thin shifting spanners, get the normal nut into posiition and then hold the normal nut while tightening the lock nut down onto the normal nut.

 

[btyczki21]

i just dont understand where the lock nut is and how to get to it

 

[Zaηe]

LOL do you have compression?

 

[btyczki21]

yee the proto SCS knuckle

so i kno the bolt on top of the headset needs to b snug but not too tight. is the lock nut something else? cuz wenever i hear ppl describe how to tighten it to me it sounds like they are 2 different things. i hav horrible luck with headsets cuz this happens everytime and i just deal wit tightening it but this time its wayyy worse

 

[Michael Rankin]

Haha the locknuts are the two nuts that come on the stock headset.

 

[Realscooters8978]

ok well what i did was take a small 2/4 and take ur bars off.an hammer th 2/4 on the scs so pound it on more then tighten the starnut put your bars back on and tighten it own try that that worke for me

 

[Michael Rankin]

ok well what i did was take a small 2/4 and take ur bars off.an hammer th 2/4 on the scs so pound it on more then tighten the starnut put your bars back on and tighten it own try that that worke for me

What?

 

[nitroRCs]

English PLEASE.

That is totally unredabl

 

[brody01134]

hes not talking about a locknut its a starnut in the forks

 

[Rob.]

You need to clamp your SCS down harder, I think.
The starnut is only for tightening the headset, NOT for keeping things together!

 

[J SWEETS]

^^ clamp down scs and tighten compression

 

[btyczki21]

i found out the problem!

something was put upside down lol damn i feel like a dumbass.

this shuld become an example thread or sumthing so that people can figure out wat to do if they have the same problem and not make a complete fool of themselves like meh.

 

[Michael Rankin]

Eh, no worries. Stupid things happen to everyone. What may I ask was put upside down?

 

[BrentBourne]

Yeah what could have been upside down on an scs?

 

[nitroRCs]

Bearings in the headset maybe?

 

[btyczki21]

it was the compression ring...i put that on 1st on accident

 

[Rob.]

Thread resolved!