Follow-up. I changed my bearings on the Uprising this weekend, which are the same size as the Undead. I used my shock bushing tool to pop out and install the bearings. The tool is small so I could do this with everything on the frame.I have learned over the years particularly with bearings, there is the right too for the job. Owing to the links being so small, you will most likely need a vice or a large clamp. You need to find the correct diameter socket and another one that is large, and close the vice around these two different size sockets to push the bearings through. Enduro Bearings makes a more expensive but easier to use bearing press that could work more effectively. A typical bearing puller I don't believe will work as well for this application.
I used a Cane Creek bushing tool that pushes the hardware in and out. It is basically a bolt and nut with two little cylinders and one larger cylinder that the two little cylinders can fit into. I did have to use a large socket as well.@Dude! What bushing tool are you referring too? Link by chance? I am trying to find some tool to do this by myself. Thanks
What is chuffed? I had a decal kit on my undead, didnt like it too much, plus it started peeling after a week of which was only one half day of riding. I peeled them off, $80 worth of stickers, and the bike looks so sick with none on there.
@Dude, would you mind sending or posting the pictures? Thanks
pictures...I really hate loading pictures in ridemonkey. It is a nightmare. I can post pictures on every other site but this.What is chuffed? I had a decal kit on my undead, didnt like it too much, plus it started peeling after a week of which was only one half day of riding. I peeled them off, $80 worth of stickers, and the bike looks so sick with none on there.
@Dude, would you mind sending or posting the pictures? Thanks
I have the Medium tune Vivid coil....do you think its worth trying the Low tune out?The Vivid air and DBair will both be far too progressive in this frame - being quite progressive to begin with.
Personally, I thought the RC4 was "OK" to start with, then rode in the Alps and thought it was crap. The CCDB (coil), so far, outshines it in every way.
Sorry dude, can't help you out on that one, don't know much of anything about Vivids. A friend of mine spanners for Needles and Marcello on the Giant factory team - I can ask him what he thinks when I see him over the weekend.I have the Medium tune Vivid coil....do you think its worth trying the Low tune out?
I'd try a low tune. I sent a low tune to Vorsprung to get rebuilt and customized; from what I remember he didn't change anything on the HSC circuit and removed the check valves on the LSC and rebound circuit.I have the Medium tune Vivid coil....do you think its worth trying the Low tune out?
i think i might give it a go...I'd try a low tune. I sent a low tune to Vorsprung to get rebuilt and customized; from what I remember he didn't change anything on the HSC circuit and removed the check valves on the LSC and rebound circuit.
haha thanks.. let me know his thoughts, i am curious. sure i guess it rides fine now, but perhaps it could be riding even better?Sorry dude, can't help you out on that one, don't know much of anything about Vivids. A friend of mine spanners for Needles and Marcello on the Giant factory team - I can ask him what he thinks when I see him over the weekend.
Besides, you look like you're doing alright as she is!
Reservoir at the rear (and hidden inside the frame) is the standard mounting. Not sure if there is any contact if you mount it the opposite way, I didn't see a huge need to change from stock.Any thoughts on the Evil as a DH Race bike? Or should I sell and get a (fill in the blank with good race bike) to race?
Also, I have seen pics with the shock installed both ways, the reservoir up and down, any benefits/problems with either way, is there a "correct" way? Thanks!
Pics below show a combo of good purpose designed tools and improvising with sockets. The handle set could be replaced with a threaded rod and nuts & washers. This just basically shows the concept of giving the bearing somewhere to go while pressing it out without having to beat on it.@Lighthowler - I had no luck getting the spherical bearings out, and I have tried and tried and trieddddd. I know they need replacing too, they barely roll over. Any thoughts? I have a new set of the enduro bearings just sitting there.
I have used a vice in the past but I use a really small cheap G clamp with a socket on one side and a coin on the other that suits the diameter of the hole the G clamp pushes through a 1 cent euro coin is perfect for the sphericals.@Lighthowler - I had no luck getting the spherical bearings out, and I have tried and tried and trieddddd. I know they need replacing too, they barely roll over. Any thoughts? I have a new set of the enduro bearings just sitting there.