Reggie Curry
10 µW
- Joined
- Sep 26, 2021
- Messages
- 5
Hello out there. So, I'm trying to get some kind of PAS setup done here with my cruiser bike, but I canNOT, for the life of me, figure out how I'm gonna make this work as far as mounting everything goes. The actual function works because I held the disc in my hand and moved both sensor types (the ring style that came with my ebike kit) and the split PAS kit that I bought from Amazon 2 days ago and tried them out, and the bike actually moved forward an inch by itself. I thought that maybe I could drill out space within the center of the split version and just slide it over my crank arm (because it was originally too tight to fit anywhere near the frame) so that I can mount it because, as you can see, I have a single-piece crank and not a two-piece version and try to do to set up that way, but it doesn't seem like the disc ever stays on what bit of threads that it's able to sit on. I would try the original disc, but it's already too small to fit in any way, which is why I bought the split version to see if I could just snap through two pieces together without having to modify anything, which obviously didn't work like I thought it would, so that's one issue.
The other issue is that the one time that I actually had it sitting there and then mounted the sensor itself, it acted like it never wanted to activate when I'm pedaling regardless of how I mounted it, whether it's super close to the magnets or just a bit away from them after zip-tying the thing in multiple ways. The red light will turn on but never do anything; only when I intentionally moved the sensor against the magnets does it actually bother to make the PAS kick in a little bit. The sensor ring that came with my ebike kit works much more consistently than the one that I kept trying to work with first, but again, I run into mounting issues with it because I don't know how you would mount that on a single-piece crank.
Of course, yes, it would be simple to just swap out the crank to a two-piece and save myself the headache of trying to make this work with what I've got, but I have no experience with taking this apart so I don't feel comfortable doing the job on my own, and my local bike shop is the only one around for several miles that can do it but charges a good bit for labor work, and I don't quite have a lot of money to spend to let them do it.
So, to simply ask the following: Is it even possible at all to use either set to have a mountable PAS setup, or will I have no choice but to swap out the crank set?
NOTE: The information on the split version that I got strictly mentions that it's for the left side, so I know for a fact that this isn't the case of me trying to mount everything on the wrong side of the bike.
The other issue is that the one time that I actually had it sitting there and then mounted the sensor itself, it acted like it never wanted to activate when I'm pedaling regardless of how I mounted it, whether it's super close to the magnets or just a bit away from them after zip-tying the thing in multiple ways. The red light will turn on but never do anything; only when I intentionally moved the sensor against the magnets does it actually bother to make the PAS kick in a little bit. The sensor ring that came with my ebike kit works much more consistently than the one that I kept trying to work with first, but again, I run into mounting issues with it because I don't know how you would mount that on a single-piece crank.
Of course, yes, it would be simple to just swap out the crank to a two-piece and save myself the headache of trying to make this work with what I've got, but I have no experience with taking this apart so I don't feel comfortable doing the job on my own, and my local bike shop is the only one around for several miles that can do it but charges a good bit for labor work, and I don't quite have a lot of money to spend to let them do it.
So, to simply ask the following: Is it even possible at all to use either set to have a mountable PAS setup, or will I have no choice but to swap out the crank set?
NOTE: The information on the split version that I got strictly mentions that it's for the left side, so I know for a fact that this isn't the case of me trying to mount everything on the wrong side of the bike.