Timeline for I removed the drop-out adjusters... Do I need to adjust my derailleur or add chain or both?
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| Sep 13, 2015 at 5:55 | comment | added | dlu | Hmm. The behavior you've been describing sounds so much like what one would expect with horizontal dropouts that it didn't occur to me that they could be vertical. With vertical dropouts I'm not at all sure how you could get the wheel back so that you'd need to add chain, or what the adjusters would have done (or where they would have gone). | |
| Sep 13, 2015 at 5:50 | comment | added | leaflifelayf | @dlu, my bike has vertical dropouts. The skewers have steel clamping surfaces. It should be able to hold. Knowing what I know now I would not have taken out the adjusters, but at the time all I was thinking was that they were pushing the wheel out of the drop out. Thanks. | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 2:59 | comment | added | dlu | Adding links won't alter tension in the chain when you're pedaling – and that's the tension that's making your wheel move. It isn't that we think the skewer is misaligned – it seems like it isn't able to hold the wheel in place. This could be due to not enough tension, or it could be that you new wheels and/or skewers don't have the steel clamping surfaces that @Batman mentions. The teeth dig into the dropouts and hold the wheel in place. It seems possible that newer wheels, meant for frames with vertical dropouts might not use steel parts with teeth to hold in horizontal dropouts. | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 21:48 | comment | added | leaflifelayf | @dlu will two links lessen the tension on the chain? I know everyone thinks that my skewers were misaligned etc, but I'm positive it was not the case. Will I need to adjust the derailleur? I'm guessing not. Thanks. | |
| Aug 29, 2015 at 21:44 | comment | added | dlu | Definitely take the advice from @Batman and make sure you've got steel skewers (the grippy parts) and that they are sharp. They should be more than able to hold your wheel in place. The load from the chain is going to pull the wheel forward, all the adjusters do is to help you locate the wheel. | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 4:57 | comment | added | leaflifelayf | Thanks, for the help. The problem was one bolt was screwed in further than the other, which kept my axle from staying aligned in the dropouts. While the quick release was on tight, my wheel could not stay on when I was putting a lot of force on it. I found that the springs had deteriorated, and the bolts were dethreaded and difficult to adjust. I am going to leave them off, for that reason. AND because in the process of taking them off the bolts were lodged in place, so I had to break them off with pliers. It was a terrible debacle. | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 4:09 | comment | added | Batman | You also should use steel skewers with horizontal dropouts so they properly bite into the frame. | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 1:20 | history | answered | dlu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |