Sticking Campag Shifter
Not a question but perhaps an answer that might help someone else in the future.
after changing both inners and outers on my campag centaur shifters and still not being able to get reliable downshifting i finally as a last resort took the shifter off and had a good look inside, sure enough the mechanism was full of years of dirt covered grease, rather than try and flush it out with something like WD40 I took a nylon brush as scrubbed it out whilst working the shifters with a cable installed.
finally a couple of sharp blasts of air and refitted to the bike, once again perfect Campagnolo shifting was restored.
I hope this helps someone else.
after changing both inners and outers on my campag centaur shifters and still not being able to get reliable downshifting i finally as a last resort took the shifter off and had a good look inside, sure enough the mechanism was full of years of dirt covered grease, rather than try and flush it out with something like WD40 I took a nylon brush as scrubbed it out whilst working the shifters with a cable installed.
finally a couple of sharp blasts of air and refitted to the bike, once again perfect Campagnolo shifting was restored.
I hope this helps someone else.
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Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
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Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
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Had the exact same thing with my Centaurs last year, but i went the easy GT85 route!0
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I have this problem on my chorus shifter. The weird thing is it'll shift up and down perfectly at a standstill but under power it refuses to change down.argon 18 e116 2013 Vision Metron 80
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itboffin wrote:Not a question but perhaps an answer that might help someone else in the future.
after changing both inners and outers on my campag centaur shifters and still not being able to get reliable downshifting i finally as a last resort took the shifter off and had a good look inside, sure enough the mechanism was full of years of dirt covered grease, rather than try and flush it out with something like WD40 I took a nylon brush as scrubbed it out whilst working the shifters with a cable installed.
finally a couple of sharp blasts of air and refitted to the bike, once again perfect Campagnolo shifting was restored.
I hope this helps someone else.
By your description I'm guessing you didn't actually open up and disassemble the shifter from the rear, and were cleaning the accessible parts of the workings from front. In that case you could have just kept the shifters on the bike.
For what it's worth, if your shifters are ultrashift levers, a full overhaul isn't that difficult. After >10,000 miles on my current winter bike, my RHS shifter became unreliable. Looking at the online specialist shops that do it, (e.g. http://www.campagservice.co.uk/ergo.htm ) they charge £62 for doing the job. Impatient and not wanting to send my shifter off for a few weeks, my thinking was that it's not going to take them that long if they only charge £62. So I rummaged online and found a few guides. They're not perfect, but good enough to work things out yourself if you progress matters carefully.
http://www.cyclecycle.info/campagnolo-e ... r-assembly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OocYpHXJ3Y
Admittedly, the first one I did probably took me 2 hours all in as I found my feet. I expected to find a broken G-spring carrier, but there was nothing wrong with any of the components. A clean, grease and re-assemble has returned perfect shifting again. I haven't had reason to do it again, but think the second would be done in about an hour. With practice, doable in under 30 mins with a fair wind.0
