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BB Spacers and BB Mounted Chain Guards?

dwclay99dwclay99 Posts: 100
edited January 2011 in MTB workshop & tech
Hi there!

One quick quesiton, it is ok to have effectivly 4 spacers on a external style bottom bracket?

see pic:

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you can see there that i have on the right three very thin metal spacers with the combined width of a normal plastic spacer, the bb mounted chain reatainer and also a normal plastic bb spacer.

on the left you can see that i have a single plastic spacer.

is this safe?



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  • nicklousenicklouse Posts: 50,675 Lives Here
    not really.

    if adding a BB mount device you remove on spacer.

    but it does also depend on BB width and cranks.
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  • dwclay99dwclay99 Posts: 100
    Should i therefore remove the spacer from the non drive side? or left in the picture?
  • nicklousenicklouse Posts: 50,675 Lives Here
    from where you fitted the device.

    but agian it does really depend on more info as that presumes that it was fitted correctly in the first place.

    http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-hel ... tra-torque
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  • ilovedirtilovedirt Posts: 5,798
    What cranket is it? Have you got the fitting instructions with it? If you install a BB chain guide or mech, you remove a 25mm spacer.
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  • dwclay99dwclay99 Posts: 100
    so, according to the park tool link you supplied, for the 68mm bb: one spacer non drive side and one drive side and then the bb mounted chain guide.
  • dwclay99dwclay99 Posts: 100
    okay, think i sorted it.
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