Thanks all for your replies and insight. I took another look at the cage
and there's no play between the cage plates and the main body, it won't
change alignment when it's under tension with a chain installed. Also
eyeballing the cage it's definitely out of square with the derailer body
and
Any sign of an accident? Maybe a bunch of scrapes along the pulley cage. If
it’s that bent you would expect some visible damage. But i would exhaust
all other options before trying to straighten the pulley cage. I’ve never
done it. It strikes me as very difficult to do it without damaging the
Also on the checklist of things to check: the bolt for XTR rear mechs is
aluminum. If a previous installer cross threaded it, it's pretty easy for
the steel of the dropout to kind of rethread that bolt in that crooked
orientation, if the previous installer was pretty ham-handed. If that were
Oh, Eric has the better plan. I didn't notice there's no chain, my question
doesn't make sense
On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:30:50 PM UTC-7 campyo...@me.com wrote:
> Have you tried putting a chain on it? Maybe placing tension on the
> derailleur will bring it into alignment?
>
> --Eric
Have you tried putting a chain on it? Maybe placing tension on the derailleur
will bring it into alignment?
--Eric Norris
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> On Jul 12, 2022, at 12:15 PM, Eric Marth wrote:
>
> Hey hey hey everyone. I recently picked
