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Hi, can someone give me some advice for setting up a new shimano chain on a buddy's mtb?
I've always used the medthod of putting the new chain up on the big front ring and the big rear cog
and then feeding through the deriallers and bringing the chain together as tight as I could and from
that point adding a link so that gear combo was theorectally usable -though I never actually would
shift into it.
OK heres the prob,
My buddys got a new deore 44 t front chainring and a 32 rear cog and an xt long mech.
But when I use the above method I get loads of extra chain when I'm in the small / small combo.
Enough chain slack that in that gear combo that the chain drags around the mech as there isn't
any tension.
So my quesstion is, which way is correct? Should I lock out the big to big combo by shortening the
chain or will there always be loads of slack in the small / small combo?
Give me some advice please! Cheers,
I've always used the medthod of putting the new chain up on the big front ring and the big rear cog
and then feeding through the deriallers and bringing the chain together as tight as I could and from
that point adding a link so that gear combo was theorectally usable -though I never actually would
shift into it.
OK heres the prob,
My buddys got a new deore 44 t front chainring and a 32 rear cog and an xt long mech.
But when I use the above method I get loads of extra chain when I'm in the small / small combo.
Enough chain slack that in that gear combo that the chain drags around the mech as there isn't
any tension.
So my quesstion is, which way is correct? Should I lock out the big to big combo by shortening the
chain or will there always be loads of slack in the small / small combo?
Give me some advice please! Cheers,