Do not, under any circumstances...

adb1006
adb1006 Posts: 938
edited December 2009 in MTB general
...dismantle an X9 trigger shifter :shock:

Took me and my mate 2 hours to rebuild the fiddly little fecker :evil: Still, lesson learned :lol:
Rock Lobster Team Tig SL Custom

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  • Alex
    Alex Posts: 2,086
    Don't tell me, you undid something and it went *ping* across the room?

    It used to be even more fiddly with the old style bolt together x.7 style ones, before the newer x.0 style ones came along!

    Always takes longer the first time though, gets easier once you've done it a couple of times :wink:
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  • weeksy59
    weeksy59 Posts: 2,606
    Funily enough i need to fit a new shifter, couldn't work out how to get the old one off or how to thread the cable on new one..

    "if i undo that.... well it's gonna explode in a load of springs and stuff"

    i left it to my LBS
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  • adb1006
    adb1006 Posts: 938
    Alex wrote:
    Don't tell me, you undid something and it went *ping* across the room?

    It used to be even more fiddly with the old style bolt together x.7 style ones, before the newer x.0 style ones came along!

    Always takes longer the first time though, gets easier once you've done it a couple of times :wink:

    There won't be a second time, believe me! :wink:
    Rock Lobster Team Tig SL Custom
  • The Big Cheese
    The Big Cheese Posts: 8,651
    Absolute 'mare. Happened to me a couple of weeks ago on a set of X7s, as Alex said it's a friggin nightmare, had to open the other one up to see how they went back together, in fact in the end I took pretty much the whoel thing apart, and cleaned them up.

    Got some new X0 (09) shifters and rear mech coming *hopefully* to replace my XTR on the Marin, let's see if they are OK, I think you just unscrew the dial on the top to change cables, should be easy
  • P-Jay
    P-Jay Posts: 1,478
    Ha ha.

    Did it once - ping and seeminly thousands of tiny bits srapneled the room.

    Took one look at it, fired up the laptop and wiggled a new one.
    Shocker Enduro
  • adb1006
    adb1006 Posts: 938
    The Big Cheese wrote:
    Absolute 'mare. Happened to me a couple of weeks ago on a set of X7s, as Alex said it's a friggin nightmare, had to open the other one up to see how they went back together, in fact in the end I took pretty much the whoel thing apart, and cleaned them up.

    Got some new X0 (09) shifters and rear mech coming *hopefully* to replace my XTR on the Marin, let's see if they are OK, I think you just unscrew the dial on the top to change cables, should be easy

    Yeah, you do. There's like a flat star-type thing. There's a spring inside the top but it stays fixed and doesn't ping off. For some reason i undone the bottom instead of the top!

    My X9's actually came with cables already attached, so you may not even need to open them up at all.
    Rock Lobster Team Tig SL Custom
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    Getting new cables into the older X9s (2006 or so, mine) is a godawful b*****d of a job, I was literally almost in tears trying to thread the thing through the plastic cam. GO IN YOU ****! AAAARGH
    Uncompromising extremist

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