Tech Tips: Vuelta Dust Caps

Hi All.

If you enjoy the Vuelta Dust Caps as much as I do, you may be able to
make use of these two tips:

1. Don't use Loctite when you install them. It sticks too hard and the
thin aluminum hex-hole will deform should you try to remove them. Use
grease instead.

2. Should you strip the hole trying to remove them, drill two holes on
either side of the central (stripped) hole and use strong needlenose
instead of the hex wrench (see photo).

3. While I also heated the cap with a torch to remove it, I'm not
convinced that it helped.

Enjoy!


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Dave, wouldn't heating the cap expand the cap therefore making it more
difficult to remove?


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Sofa wrote:
*Dave, wouldn't heating the cap expand the cap therefore making it
more difficult to remove? *
Yes. Although the real issue is does the aluminum of the cap expand
more than the aluminum of the crank arm that was on it? But heating is
supposed to loosen up the loctite.

In any case, it was a real bear to get off. The one on the other side
wasn't as bad, so I must have put less loctite on it.

In the extreme case, I could probably have brute-force ripped it out
with pliers. I was afraid of ruining the brand-new Kookas, though.


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Why did you put loctite on it in the first place?


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Rayden wrote:
*Why did you put loctite on it in the first place? *
To keep the hatches battened down, as it were. I don't lose parts along
the wayside or destroy them prematurely because of that approach. It
just didn't work out in this case.


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