Help with headset / Pace RC37

[JeRkY]

Right-

1- You are missing a Pace specific part known as a Race collar. The steerers on Pace forks unlike most other forks to not have a tapered larger diameter section at the base by the crown, for this reason Pace used a shim (the race collar) to bulk out the steerer and make your headset lower race fit. If you removed an old headset, check the lower race that you removed as the shim often comes off with it. Pace or the ever useful retro bike member Justbackdated can supply a new race collar.

Your headset isn't missing anything, your fork is.

2- The part marked TH industries is part of an FSA Connix, an alternative device to a star fangled nut. If you do not have the specific top cap for it, simply remove it and install a star fangled nut instead.

 

[cyfa2809]

right im proper confused

but heres how i see it

take all out of/off steerer
then from the pic of seperate parts

start from bottom right and but the parts on anti clockwise

so
race>bearing>cup/frame>bearing>then that silver 'cap' with cane creek on it which is already on your steerer
that should compress the split race in the top when all is put together
but you will need to take out that thing in your steerer and put in a star fangled nut or hed doctor

(edit: and jerkys suggestion re fork)

 

[misteroo]

What cyfa said!!

As I can see the bottom right "ring" in the pic is the crown race!!

http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch ... 1&aql=&oq=

The bit on the fork is the last bit...its the top decorative pice, the last bit before your spacers or stem go on!!

Simples!!

 

[TDIfurby]

Damn! Anyone in Exmouth able to help me out for 5 minutes this evening? LOL

 

[TDIfurby]

OK - good news is I found the issue LOL. Basically what I thought was part of the Pace fork was actually a bodged in bit of the FSA headset. Looked to have been glued in with polyurethane black gunk.... Anyway, got that off and now the headset is totally pukka.

Only thing is now, I need to use some of the spacers thats with the old FSA headset, but for the life of me, I don't know where I have put the bits from it! Goddamnit!

Anyway - don't even know why I am bothering. The rapture is only hours away....

 

[TDIfurby]

After racking my brain, found the FSA stuff in a little box, so have used the spacers to achieve what I needed. Luckily for me I was able to use the Dane Creek stem top with the old FSA ti-stem grippy thingy, so thats all good now too.

Shall update my resto thread with a fresh current pic. Tomorrow I might try to actually get it rideable.... EEEK!

 

[cyfa2809]

 

[TDIfurby]

Well, turns out the fork's need rebuilding really. The play is all in the forks now, and the headset is spot on.

I will be able to ride this on the 18th June, so just want the gears and brakes working now. Getting there slowly, but not sure what time / £££ its going to take to either repair the Pace forks, or sell them as scrap? and buy replacement forks.