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So, I decided to swap the OEM dropper on my Occam for the Vyron I already have. Everything was fine and moving freely until I met resistance on the last 30cm of getting the dropper cable out.
It seems stuck in the Frame, with an audible noise halfway down the down tube and no amount of wiggle and pulling will remove it. From what I can see, it may be surrounded in a rubber sound-deadening thing - could this be the issue? I think I've two choices:
a) Check back here later for some STW magic advice
b) Chop the outer, leave it in the frame and prey that it doesn't rattle or cause a shop to not want to change my brake hoses for me should I ever need them to.
What to do?
Can you cut it and then pull it out via the BB? If it's hard to get that bit out due to the tube welds or mould, could you put an inner into the outer that will be easier to fish through as a guide?
From what I can see, it may be surrounded in a rubber sound-deadening thing
This is likely - I changed the brakes on K's Orbea Rallon and it was a nightmare - small cable ports, unguided, run in foam rubber outer. No idea what how they installed it at the factory but running the new one through took forever as the foam sheath kept bunching up.
Spray some silicone lube on the outer and let it dribble down inside, then pull
Ok thanks. A bit of Googling also reveals Orbea have a “conduit” inside the frame, so what’s the betting somethings caught there.
I thing I might have the BB out tomorrow and have a look from that end.
Fork off might be worth it too, possibly a bit easier access to the down tube from that end.
BB out and fork off I would suggest, will help loads when tou get to rerouting as well
Got to love inner cables eh.....forks & bb out......
Good luck hope you sort it.
I don't think the fork out will help - the cable exits from the side of the down tube behind the fork. The current Occam has the gear and brake cables going between the bottom of the downtube and across to the chainstays through a conduit, so the dropper should be the only cable going down the down tube, over of under the BB and up the seat tube. I can't for the life of me think what its caught on, unless its the BB. Yet, it moved fine when getting the seat post out.
Bloody annoying!
Phew, done! BB out did the trick. I could feel the cable still up into the seat tube and the angle had it stuck. A fair bit of fiddling and pulling with one finger - resulting in some sore fingers having rubbed on the edges of the frame - and I could see it enough to pull the seat tube end down and out with the hook-end of a parks tyre lever.
Thereafter, just pulled it through slowly and job done, thanks for the advice!
a cheap set of dental picks is good for that sort of thing.