Timeline for Bottom jockey wheel on rear derailleur keeps skipping chain
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 20:33 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | Yeah - is less-common to be bent outboard, often things are pushed into the wheel, not pulled out. | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 17:14 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | A technique I've found quite useful, having a few spare parts at hand, is to remove the derailer from the hanger and insert instead the right sized axle (I'm thinking it's a front axle from a skewer hub), with a nut threaded onto it. Once the axle is inserted and the nut tightened against the hanger, the direction the axle points tells you how things are bent. And you can then use the axle as a lever to straighten the hanger, until the lever axle is parallel, from all angles, with the rear axle. | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 15:56 | comment | added | Jeff | Be careful when doing this that you're not bending the derailleur cage. Your force should be applied so that it's acting at the derailleur mounting bolt and it's hangar. | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 13:02 | history | answered | Argenti Apparatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |