Installation/Operational Instructions
On this page, you will find all of the instructional walk throughs for our products.
Odoacer Barb Tool
A step-by-step guide to operating the Odoacer Barb Tool.
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Disassemble the tool, removing the clamping bolts, clamp and lower guide.
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Slide your barb onto the upper guide pin, ensuring the barb is pushed all the way in (as shown in photos).
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Install the lower guide into the tool.
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Add the clamp and loosly tighten the clamping bolts.
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Slide the brake hose into the tool, ensuring it is pushed all the way up to the barb (A quick push and twist of the hose, or tool, will help locate it centrally on the barb).
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Tighten the clamping bolts fully, until the gap at each side of the clamp is closed. This needs to be very tight to stop the hose pushing out the tool. If you find it moves on your first press, tighten the bolts again, they can take it!
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Push the arms together with 2 hands until they touch the sides of the tool. The brab should be half way into the hose at this point. If it isn't check the clamp bolts again and re-position the hose if it has moved.
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With the arms open, un-do the clamping bolts and slide the hose into the tool again for the second press.
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Repeat steps 6/7, disassemble the tool and inspect your newly fitted barb!
Chain Torsion-er Assembly
This section will show you the assembly of both styles of chain tensioner.
Photos of the parts assembly of both standard and clean style chain tensioners.
Both styles have 6 main parts, with the standard tensioner including an aditional washer.
Both styles operate in the same way, but have a different connecting body.
Chain Torsion-er Setup-
Installation- Clean Fittment
Remove the old tensioner and clamping insert from the frame. You will need to remove 2 bolts from the insert (one at the side of the dropout, one underneath) to remove it from the frame.
With your Clean tensioner fully assembled (check arm position, guide below), simply line up the pin to the hole (X/C frames are opposite to the K's and require the arm to be rotated on assembly) and push the tensioner body into the frame cutout. The pin will snap into place and the tensioner is secure.
No bolts required!
Installation- Standard Fittment
Remove the old tensioner from the frame.
The standard fittment requires a 'stop' to operate correctly. In the crewkerz frames, this can be found in the dropout where the clamping insert sits. If your frame doesn't have this notch, find a face for the spur to push against (pushing clockwise to stop the Main Body from rotating).
Once the main body has been inserted into the frame, the bolt and washer are then inserted through the frame from the outside, with the washer outisde of the dropout/chainstay.
Arm Positioning-
The arm of the torsion-er can be used in 3 different ways, each depending on your chain length and bike setup. We recommend using the single guide, but this is only possible with certain chains.
The twin guide 'pushing down' requires the arm to be rotated so the guides are pointing toward the chanstay.
Setting Tension-
The Chain Torsion-er works in a slightly different way to the normally supplied tensioners.
The tension is set by the position of the arm and is NOT adjusted by the bolt. Over-tightening this bolt will result in a loss of tension! (The bolt should be tight enough for the arm to spring back freely)
To increase tension, set the arm angle so it is further away from the bottom bracket.
This can be altered in fine steps by rotating the Torsion Bar in the Main Body, or in large steps by rotating the Arm on the Rotating Body.