Stripped Ergo lever

[javadude]

 

Ok - the part numbers are

 

(Right hand lever - Record)

 

G-Springs : EC-RE209 (need two of these)

Spring Carriers : EC-RE111

 

Just placed my order

 

Thanks for this thread - I feel inspired to fiddle with my ergo levers

 

Cool, who did you order from?

 

[Velouria]

Spoke to my LBS - got them to order the parts from me (J&J are the distributors, so most bike shops should have an account with them).

 

Should be here next week sometime.

 

[Velouria]

My parts arrived last friday, and I was eager to give this Campy repair thing a go, so after picking up the parts from the bike shop, I got home and started getting things ready for my introduction into Campy Ergo Lever repairs.

 

Just to be safe, I had printed out a nice little howto from NuttyCyclist and had a schematic of the order of the bits from CampyOnly just in case I ended up with a whole bunch of parts flying across the room.

 

After striping the bar tape and taking the brake and gear cables out, I proceeded to open it all up - waiting for the Ergo lever to explode into a million little pieces.

 

Nothing happened.

 

I removed everything, trying to make a mental note of how it each part came off, cleaning them as I went along, until I came to the G-Spring Carrier and G-Springs. It was quite obvious to see where my click had gone - the Carrier was cracked, and one of the springs was broken.

 

 

After putting my new shiney Carrier and G-Springs, I attempted to replace everything in reverse order of it coming off. All went well until I got to the srping that controls the thumb lever - I wasn't quite sure where the long end went, but after a bit of fiddling I figured it out. Next was the thumb lever - this is where it got tricky and a third hand would have been quite handy - taking up the tension in the spring meant that everything wanted to naturally fly around the room. After a bit of convincing, I was able to get the other spring on, and tensioned (quite a clever way to tension the spring), and finally the washer plate and hex bolt to keep it all together.

 

A quick check showed that my click had indeed returned. This wasn't the dangerous job I had thought it was, and still feeling quite proud of my achievement, I decided I wanted to do it again, but this time to understand what each part did in the whole process. I dissasembled the Ergo Lever and rebuilt it another two times - it really isn't a difficult job, and can't believe I didn't try it sooner.

 

The hardest part of the whole job was trying to get the brake cable back through the Ergo Lever - took me over an hour of twisting and pushing and swearing before I got that right.

 

I took the bike for a ride on Saturday (with some extra tool in case the lever fell to pieces on the ride), but for 4 hours I got to re-experience the joys of my clicky Campy Ergo Levers.

 

It cost me R130 for parts, R100 for bar tape, and a friday evening - certainly cheaper than the R3000 for 2nd hand Ergo Levers that I was seriously considering, and quicker and cheaper than the R300 + parts and a week it would have taken to send it in.

 

I am almost ready to try the other side!