Re: shimano ultegra 9sp levers assembly photos

s331234@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi folks,

After 7 years and around 30000km my right hand (rear) ultegra lever
recently broke it's main spring (as documented by Bill Cotton
http://www.billcotton.com/sti_shifter_repair.htm). I managed to source
a replacement spring from my local bike shop who keeps old broken
levers around for parts. For some reason the broken spring also caused
the inner down shift lever to lock up and unable to move so I ended
up taking the whole assembly apart and i mean down to the last gear
cog.

Miraculously I managed to put it all back together and got it working
again, it's now back on my bike and after 300km it's still shifting
smoothly. Anyway since I couldn't find anything anywhere about taking
apart STI shifters and putting them back together I thought I take a
few photos during the process and post them for anyone else who has
the unfortunate luck of having a lever break down on them and have
considered trying to fix it.

http://picasaweb.google.com/s331234/ShimanoUltegraSTILeversShiftersAssembly

When you first take apart these things it is quite daunting as it
looks like there's a hundred springs and cogs but if you're reasonbly
mechanically minded and have the patience to work things out after a
evening or two you can figure out how these things actually work and
putting them back together is quite logical.

I haven't had the time to write a comprehensive accompanying text to
the photos so apologies for that. If you have any questions feel free
to email me. Also for some reason (on my pc anyway) the thumbnails on
my picasa album isn't showing.

Steve.



Very good pictures!

Lou
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