Tips for Using Ferrells When Replacing a Mountain Bike Housing Cable

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"So in a couple of seconds, I'll have some fresh, awesome shifting, which is going to really, really, just kick butt, compared to the quality of shifting I had earlier. I'm grabbing two more ferrell's, because you need a ferrell on every end, if you don't put ferrell's on there, things are going to pull through, like they did the first instance here. So, that's one, and now... the little baggy, and do be carefull that I use 4 mm ferrell, instead of 5 mm ferell. The diameter of shift housing can be different sizes, so if you don't use the proper diameter, you have a sloppy fit, which can be a problem. So you see this one's all, wobbly, guess that's for the wrong diameter, that's for 5 mm, so. Pick through here, find a four mil, that's a four mil right there. Because this is a metal ferrell, not a plastic ferrell, I can lightly just crimp the end of that, just to keep it from going anywhere. Maybe not crimped enough, but there we go. So I'll stick this little guy back on the housing stop on the frame. And feed the derailleur, oops! I almost forget, put this barrell adjuster back on. Now changing cable and housing is the same no matter whether you run a Shimong derailleur or a Shram derailleur. There's a little cable change port you feed the cable through, you make sure everything's the same length, all that other sort of stuff. The change port is even in the same place, on the Shimong derailleur. You can see it right there, and you can almost see through it a little bit better, to the other side. And put my eye up to it, I can see a little bit of the camera, but that's about it, so."