cycletothesea":3uno8tu4 said:I have a lovely Pinarello with a 7400 dura ace groupset, however the shifters recently gave up working properly. Rather than buying some more expensive Dura Ace downtube shifters, I tried to fit some more modern SL-R400 shimano 8 speed shifters. Trouble is, I can't get them to index properly with the old Dura Ace derailleur. Should this be a problem? Are they likely to be incompatible?
legrandefromage":2imbdjf1 said:I've been having a thunk on this, why dont you go mad and fit a 10spd cassette/ chain and fit 10spd shifters? I've been doing this myself and wanging on to whomever would listencycletothesea":2imbdjf1 said:I have a lovely Pinarello with a 7400 dura ace groupset, however the shifters recently gave up working properly. Rather than buying some more expensive Dura Ace downtube shifters, I tried to fit some more modern SL-R400 shimano 8 speed shifters. Trouble is, I can't get them to index properly with the old Dura Ace derailleur. Should this be a problem? Are they likely to be incompatible?
Heres an old mountain Deore MT-60 rear mech via some Dura-Ace 10spd shifter. It indexes nicely and certainly chains wont brake the bank
cheapish bits
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shimano-Dura ... rk:25f:0
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M-Wave-10-Sp ... k:156f:0
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BBB-Drivetra ... rk:38f:0
JSH":n2ub3myl said:I’ve got a spare pair of SL7402 DT 8 speed £20 + post?