Do pivot 14s and 15s have the same heel piece?

[Salad20]

Hey guys,

Basically I have a pair of pivot 14s with 115mm brakes and a pair of pivot 15s with 130mm brakes. I want to mount the 15s on some 110mm skis so I was wondering if I could sub the heel piece of the 14s for the heel piece of 15s?

Thanks

 

[Paul.]

Yes you could do that and be fine, all pivots use the same heel just with a different spring inside. A shop might not agree to mounting them like that though. You could also swap the brakes if you wanted to keep the pairs matching

 

[quagsire]

Yea I would just swap the dildos and keep your sets matched, even though the only difference in the heelpieces is the actual springs.

 

[Salad20]

Yes you could do that and be fine, all pivots use the same heel just with a different spring inside. A shop might not agree to mounting them like that though. You could also swap the brakes if you wanted to keep the pairs matching

Is that something i can do at home or should i bring it to a shop?

 

[Lemuel]

Is that something i can do at home or should i bring it to a shop?

With pivots it’s definitely an “if you have to ask, bring them to a shop” situation. Swapping brakes requires some disassembly

 

[Paul.]

Is that something i can do at home or should i bring it to a shop?

Its pretty easy but a shop wont charge you for it so you might has well have them do it

 

[tdollo]

100%. Unscrew the dildo from the brake assembly by turning the two black arms with a phillips head screwdriver. Make sure theres some grease on the threads to prevent issues further down the road. Simply re-screw the dildo onto the brake assembly you want to use. Generally i'll screw the arms down to the second little notch thing on the brake assembly; after which you put the boot in and adjust forward pressure accordingly. Hopefully this makes sense, worst case ontario go to a shop and they should do it for free.