Gear Skipping
On my 08 Expedition when I first recieved it the 8th and 9th gear skipped because they weren't tightened. Took it back to the LBS and they fixed it. Next day, 6th and 7th would skip about an 1/8th of...
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Bruce, per your request: 1st cog - small ring 5th cog - small ring 9th cog - small ring 1st cog - large ring 5th cog - large ring 9th cog - large ring Although the teflon coated shifter cable doesn't...
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Excellent, Perry! The angular change isn't as radical as I initially expected. I think your analysis is right on about moving the adjuster forward and adding just a little bit more cable between it...
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Bruce, I ran the LX until I determined I couldn't adjust out the ghost shifting apparent moving from 4th to 3rd, and 3rd to 2nd cogs in index mode. (I eliminated all the usual suspects involving cable...
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Perry, What do you mean by "ghost shifting"? The XTR der looks cool. Makes me want to upgrade. Thanks.
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Perry- I've often wondered about the accuracy of the inner workings of the index shifter and whether or not it might be the cause of some of the ghost shifting problems that some folks have...
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rz & Bruce - My interpretation of ghost shifting is when, in a given gear (without shifter input), the chain attempts to move unexpectedly to an adjacent cog. This occurs to varying degrees from...
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Several issues on this thread. Clean equipment shifts better? Yeh, but my sandy world is fun. I use a very straight cable run with free floating hanging cable from left steerer to rear chainstaye...
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Talked to a guy with a Expedition that was ghost shifting, but only on up shifts (slack cable) and very hard pedaling, otherwise shifts were flawless with low pedal pressure. Turns out he had rerouted...
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Mike- I've seen a der that was actually designed to work like the M5 U-turn Away, but can't remember what make or model it was. There was a recurring problem with the way people would install them...
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Thank you, Bruce. Your intuitive suggestion that my ghost shifting problem would not be solved by a stiffer aftermarket der return spring was noted. Upon inspection I found you were right in guessing...
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Perry- Have you had a chance to put it through it's paces, yet? We're waiting for a performance report on these changes! I would be very inerested in knowing if the old Deore XL der would work...
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Bruce - My subjective comparison between XTR and LX der's has me thinking the XTR shifts are more positive, quick, and so less clatter moving between cogs. But I may just be rationalizing my purchase....
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I took my Trail in to the LBS today after fighting shifting issues for a month or so (see thread about having bent up the derailleur). I also had cold weather shifting issues that lubing didn't seem...
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gobrat - My post above, dated 11/20/08, showed the Avid Flak Jacket shifter cable I installed. I bought this set after kinking my stock cable housing in what was initially not a well thought out cable...
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Bruce and El So: After going through my Cat at the house, I took it down to my LBS in Springfield. It turned out that the crane on the der was just so ever slightly bent. Problem solved, she shifts...
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I sure wish I knew how people get bent derailleur cranes, and why it screws up the alignment of chain to sprocket, because a lot of people seem to have them. And how come you call it a crane like I do...
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Crane, boom, cage, who cares what we call it as long as we all understand what we are refering to. I think I use the term "crane" because it sounds more descriptive and because I first heard that term...
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Bruce: Speaking of which, I think I know exactly how my "Crane" was bent. It came home from the LBS in the back of my pickup with my other Cat. Nose to tail, and the right front wheel hub of the...
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