So i swapped the fork on my Scott and cut it to length, added extra spacers to be safe and screwed everything together. When I held the front brake and pushed forward I noticed the fork had a lot of wobble to it. I transferred everything from the old fork to the new one so not quite sure why it's happening, thanks
Did you install the headset cap/bolt *before* tightening the pinch (stem) bolts?
If not, loosen the headset bolt and the pinch bolts. Make sure the fork is well seated, then install the headset cap. Tighten the headset cap only enough to take the play ("wobble") out of the headset. This shouldn't seem like much at all. Once that's done, straighten out your handlebars and tighten the stem bolts (usually 5nm, which again isn't all that tight).
If you did, well, something else is wrong and I defer to someone else .
Thx wombat, and yes IoC. Although I'm new to this all I'm the kind of person to do it myself if i can. Pipe cutter, dremel, and some grease. Well the lower bearing was on backwards and i had to cut the steerer tube down about 4mm more, so my mistake at first. Thanks for the help guys!
Glad you found it. Really only three parts (crown race, upper bearing, lower bearing). Crown race got me last time (used the wrong one) but it is easy to flip the bearings upside down if they are the cage type.
Live and learn, brought it to my LBS this morning for regular maintenance and bleeding the brake lines, swapping the chain and tightening the cassette. Got a big day planned with my bike Sunday
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