2018 Santa Cruz chameleon

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First off I’m a new member here and just wanna day this site is sweet. Now onto my question.i recently sold my Bronson and bought a new 27+ 18 chameleon and I’m having issues with my dropouts staying in place on my 16 chameleon it was just straight forward no adjusters. Seems like every time I ride the wheel will get out of alignment somehow and I have all the bolts torqued and so forth but still continues to happen I have no clue why. My question is where are most of you guys running your dropouts slammed,Halfway or what I’m thinking I may try to slam them out and see what happens but I’ve read it will raise my BB height and not sure if I could tell a difference in it or not. Anyways any help is appreciated. Thanks
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dtimms33 11/6/2018 10:54am
11/6/2018 10:54am Edited Date/Time 11/6/2018 10:58am
I am running my Chameleon SS and having the same issue. Bolts keep coming loose after 2 rides, don't know why but put grease on the threads hoping that helps (blue Locktight is next). Also, if I don't set the tension screws (bolt thingys) all the way forward on the drive side after I tighten the bolts so the wheel cannot move forward and do the opposite on the non-drive side, my wheel will shift. I hope that makes sense? Think of how the wheel gets torched under hard peddling, Chain pulls drive side forward, but non-drive side is being forced backwards. This is how I am working on this issue And hoping grease helps with bolts coming loose.
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Shannon_Ward 11/6/2018 1:58pm
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dtimms33 wrote:
I am running my Chameleon SS and having the same issue. Bolts keep coming loose after 2 rides, don't know why but put grease on the...
I am running my Chameleon SS and having the same issue. Bolts keep coming loose after 2 rides, don't know why but put grease on the threads hoping that helps (blue Locktight is next). Also, if I don't set the tension screws (bolt thingys) all the way forward on the drive side after I tighten the bolts so the wheel cannot move forward and do the opposite on the non-drive side, my wheel will shift. I hope that makes sense? Think of how the wheel gets torched under hard peddling, Chain pulls drive side forward, but non-drive side is being forced backwards. This is how I am working on this issue And hoping grease helps with bolts coming loose.
I actually greased my bolts up as well this evening I took another chain I had and slammed the dropouts gonna see how that works. As of now I have both bolts run pretty much all the way in kinda tight but yeah what you said about the different sides actually does make perfect sense

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