Removing front Mech and cleaning

portland_bill
portland_bill Posts: 287
edited November 2011 in MTB workshop & tech
Evening all,

I'm going out on my Cube Acid in the morning with a mate to do some trails up at Thrunton Woods, and I've been trying to clean my front mech for a couple of months now to no avail.

It'll shift up onto the big ring, but it won't let the chain drop onto the small ring. It's absolutely caked in mud after the last time I went out on it, but I've honestly tried to clean it 4 or 5 times now thinking I really couldn't do anymore to it, but still when I go out, the sping isn't managing to pull the mech back in enough to shift down onto the small ring.

I really need to get the mech off and get it in a bath so I can really give it a clean, but for some reason it doesn't seem to come apart for me to lift over and off the chain.

Where I would have expected a screw to be at the tail end of the mech to undo and ease the mech apart, there seems to be a rivet. It's only a Deore mech, but I still would have expected them to be serviceable.

Surely I'm not going to have the break the chain or the mech to seperate them?

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